• Bookstores and Libraries

    The Hub

    Can we please make Banned Book Fairs the hot new nationwide trend?

    By Jonny Diamond  June 10, 2022
    The Hub

    The New York Public Library is giving 500,000 free books (for keeps!) to kids and families.

    By Jessie Gaynor  June 9, 2022
    The Hub

    A new community-oriented bookstore has opened on the Lower East Side.

    By Katie Yee  June 6, 2022
    The Hub

    For shame: Bram Stoker was a serial defiler of library books.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 24, 2022
    The Internet

    Was You’ve Got Mail Trying to Warn Us About the Internet? (Or Telling Us to Give Up?)

    By Olivia Rutigliano  May 20, 2022
    Libraries

    Founding the First English-Language Library in Gaza

    By Mosab Abu Toha  May 19, 2022
    Book Tours

    What Do We Lose—and Gain—As Book Tours Move Online?

    By Guy Gavriel Kay  May 18, 2022
    But Make It Fashion

    Emma Straub’s Advice for What to Wear to a Book Launch

    By Emma Straub  May 17, 2022
    Libraries

    On My Love of Libraries: Lessons From My Father

    By Rachel M. Harper  May 16, 2022
    Asian American Literature

    The Art of the Hand-Sell: It’s Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month!

    By Katie Yee  May 12, 2022
    The Hub

    Courageous Afghan teenagers help start an underground book club in defiance of Taliban.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 9, 2022
    The Literary Life

    What Kind of Bookstore Browser Are You?

    By The Literary Life  April 29, 2022
    The Hub

    Oklahoma public library’s sexual content ban also cuts abuse prevention program and Pride displays.

    By Eliza Smith  April 20, 2022
    The Hub

    Pour one out for the oldest children’s bookstore in Boston.

    By Dan Sheehan  April 18, 2022
    The Hub

    You should definitely check out the LA Times new literary guide to Los Angeles.

    By Jonny Diamond  April 15, 2022
    The Hub

    The Brooklyn Public Library is giving eCards to teens nationwide to challenge book bans.

    By Corinne Segal  April 15, 2022
    Language

    Samantha Hunt on the Wild Delirium of Loving Language

    By Samantha Hunt  April 13, 2022
    Bookstores

    Why a Bookstore’s Most Quiet Moments Are (Sometimes) Its Most Important

    By Jeff Deutsch  April 13, 2022
    The Hub

    Adele buys a shelf worth of books and everyone freaks out.

    By Jonny Diamond  April 4, 2022
    The Hub

    Target removed many LGBTQ+ books from their website. No one knows exactly why.

    By Walker Caplan  March 29, 2022
    Keen On

    Why Good Bookstores Might Not Actually Be “Stores”

    By Keen On  March 25, 2022
    The Hub

    An Oklahoma lawmaker just compared librarians to cockroaches. It’s as bad as it sounds.

    By Walker Caplan  March 23, 2022
    AWP

    72 Hours in Philly: The Writers’ Guide to AWP 2022

    By Literary Hub  March 22, 2022
    The Hub

    The smallest library in Maine is stocking its shelves with banned books.

    By Walker Caplan  March 17, 2022
    The Hub

    Ukrainian libraries, serving as bomb shelters, continue to prove that libraries are our best hope.

    By Eliza Smith  March 9, 2022
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