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Sad Books that Will Rip Your Soul to Pieces

Sad Books that Will Rip Your Soul to Pieces

Why We Love Reading To Cry

By Lindsay Lynch | April 26, 2016

The Staff Shelf: Bunch of Grapes Bookstore

The Staff Shelf: Bunch of Grapes Bookstore

What are booksellers reading?

By Interview with a Bookstore | April 26, 2016

Shakespeare is Dead: Six Hot Takes

Shakespeare is Dead: Six Hot Takes

Is it Cool to Remix The Plays? Was Hamlet a Sexless Bro? You'll Never Guess What Happens Next...

By Literary Hub | April 25, 2016

Beyond Shakespeare: A Reading List

Beyond Shakespeare: A Reading List

Plenty to Read in One of the Greatest Literary Moments in History

By Ed Simon | April 25, 2016

Interview with a Bookstore: Bunch of Grapes

Interview with a Bookstore: Bunch of Grapes

The Go-To Bookstore in Martha's Vineyard

By Interview with a Bookstore | April 25, 2016

Five Books Making News This Week: Tragedy, Sociology, and Knausgaard

Five Books Making News This Week: Tragedy, Sociology, and Knausgaard

Also: Cynthia Bond, David Means, Charles Bock and More

By Jane Ciabattari | April 19, 2016

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30 Poets You Should Be Reading

By Adam Fitzgerald | April 18, 2016

Interview with a Bookstore: Copperfield's Books

By Interview with a Bookstore | April 18, 2016

Otto Penzler’s Five Crime Picks for April

By Otto Penzler | April 12, 2016

The Grumpy Librarian: When You Get Thrown Out of Book Club

The Grumpy Librarian: When You Get Thrown Out of Book Club

NOT YOUR AVERAGE READERS' ADVICE COLUMN

By Caitlin Goodman | April 7, 2016

10 Contemporary Baseball Books for the New Season

10 Contemporary Baseball Books for the New Season

A Reading List for that Most Literary of Pastimes

By Dwyer Murphy | April 6, 2016

Five Writers on the Poems That Make Them Cry

Five Writers on the Poems That Make Them Cry

Siri Hustvedt, Helen Macdonald, A.L. Kennedy, Margaret Drabble, and Kate Atkinson

By Literary Hub | April 5, 2016

Five Books Making News This Week: Immigrants, Westerns, and War Crimes

Five Books Making News This Week: Immigrants, Westerns, and War Crimes

Sunjeev Sahota, Boris Fishman, Edna O'Brien, and More

By Jane Ciabattari | April 5, 2016

The Staff Shelf: Itinerant Literate

The Staff Shelf: Itinerant Literate

What are booksellers reading?

By Interview with a Bookstore | April 5, 2016

Interview with a Bookstore: Itinerant Literate

Interview with a Bookstore: Itinerant Literate

A Charleston Bookmobile Baby in the Making

By Interview with a Bookstore | April 4, 2016

Celebrate National Poetry Month With 10 New Must-Read Collections

Celebrate National Poetry Month With 10 New Must-Read Collections

“Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.”

By Cassidy Foust and Zoey Cole | April 1, 2016

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