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What Exactly Does a Librarian Do? Everything.

What Exactly Does a Librarian Do? Everything.

Introducing a New Column by Kristen Arnett

By Kristen Arnett | March 21, 2018

When a Bookstore Stands Against Censorship

When a Bookstore Stands Against Censorship

Rachel Kaplan on Why We Need Queer Books

By Rachel Kaplan | March 19, 2018

The 10 Most Famous Bookstores in the World

The 10 Most Famous Bookstores in the World

For Dedicated Tourists Who Also Want to Buy Books

By Emily Temple | March 15, 2018

Why is a Harvard Business Professor Studying Independent Bookstores?

Why is a Harvard Business Professor Studying Independent Bookstores?

Maxwell Neely-Cohen Talks to Organizational Ethnographer Ryan Raffaelli

By Maxwell Neely-Cohen | March 9, 2018

Interview with a Bookstore: Michigan's McLean and Eakin

Interview with a Bookstore: Michigan's McLean and Eakin

Literary Community in Petoskey

By Interview with a Bookstore | February 23, 2018

In Praise of the Small Town Library

In Praise of the Small Town Library

In Rural Pennsylvania, Four Bookshelves Are a Passport to the Outside World

By Steven Kurutz | February 6, 2018

Best Reviewed
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Interview with a Bookstore: Tulsa's Magic City Books

By Interview with a Bookstore | January 25, 2018

How Being a Librarian Makes Me a Better Writer

By Xhenet Aliu | January 23, 2018

There's Got to Be a Better Way to Categorize the Books We Love

By Maggie Anderson | January 9, 2018

40 Overlooked Books from 2017, as Chosen By Booksellers

40 Overlooked Books from 2017, as Chosen By Booksellers

A Year-End Reading List from America's Great Readers

By Literary Hub | December 30, 2017

On the Perilous Plight of the Part-Time Librarian

On the Perilous Plight of the Part-Time Librarian

Annie Spence on Making a Working Life Out of Evenings and Weekends

By Annie Spence | December 13, 2017

Against Amazon: Seven Arguments, One Manifesto

Against Amazon: Seven Arguments, One Manifesto

"Amazon appropriated our books. We will appropriate Amazon logic."

By Jorge Carrión | November 15, 2017

Bookselling After the Fires: Napa Needs You

Bookselling After the Fires: Napa Needs You

Elayna Trucker on the Aftermath of a Disaster

By Elayna Trucker | November 13, 2017

Finding Solace in Bookstores, in the Face of Cancer

Finding Solace in Bookstores, in the Face of Cancer

Mary Ladd on the Pleasure of Being Surrounded By Literature

By Mary Ladd | November 7, 2017

The Libyan Bookshops Staying Open Through Civil War

The Libyan Bookshops Staying Open Through Civil War

"Just don’t ask us why we do it"

By Charlotte Bailey | October 26, 2017

How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Boston

How to Spend a Literary Long Weekend in Boston

From a Bar Called Bukowski's to the Oldest Poetry Bookstore in America

By Oset Babur | October 25, 2017

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