“I have only the vaguest understanding of what TikTok is,” Patchett insists. And yet she and her bookstore, Parnassus Books, have become microcelebrities on the app thanks to the shop's savvy marketing manager, Sarah Arnold. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-04-28 04:00:00 UTC ]
Independent book store Book Keeper will continue to hold Drag Queen Story Time after protests. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2022-12-13 09:00:00 UTC ]
In very 1984 news, Belarus has banned the sale of 1984. Belarusian weekly newspaper, Nasha Niva, reported that security forces detained Andrei Yanushkevich, publisher and bookstore owner, and confiscated 200 books, with a focus on 1984. Nasha Niva also reported that they had obtained a copy of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-05-20 14:23:20 UTC ]
A worthy cause for you this Thursday: a bookstore owner’s petition to make Harriet Tubman Day a federal holiday (and the first federal holiday named for an American woman) is at nearly 8,000 signatures, and you can add your name here. The petition was created by Jeannine Cook, owner of Harriet’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-05-05 16:26:12 UTC ]
Kerri Maher’s novel “The Paris Bookseller” celebrates the life of American Sylvia Beach, a bookstore owner who saw promise in James Joyce’s “Ulysses.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2022-01-11 20:01:10 UTC ]
Chicago’s only Black woman-owned bookstore opened in the summer of 2019. Over the past two years, Semicolon has served as a vital and vibrant cultural hub and gallery space. Last summer, as the coronavirus began to tear through our country and small businesses had to close their doors, Semicolon... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-02-12 16:25:48 UTC ]
As COVID cases surge to record numbers and Republicans flirt with a paper coup the future of the nation’s bookstores remains perilous. Yes, we all have a lot to worry about—but if you care about that unwieldy, amorphous thing called literary culture, please spare a moment (or a dollar) to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-10 16:14:32 UTC ]
W.W. Norton's Liveright imprint publicity director Peter Miller moonlights as a bookstore owner in Brooklyn—and he's working with Books Through Bars to get books into the hands of the imprisoned. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-10-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
It was my best case scenario. Not only did Edward Vaughn pick up the phone, but he was willing and eager to speak. At 85 years old, he had way more energy than me, 60 years his junior, when I called him earlier this week. (An unfortunate cocktail of technological failure and fanboyish... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-06-25 14:02:32 UTC ]
In “Camino Winds,” a bookstore owner and two other characters team up to solve a murder and the mystery behind it. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-04-28 01:32:18 UTC ]
On this episode of Sheltering, bookstore owner and author Emma Straub speaks with Maris Kreizman about her new novel, All Adults Here. Straub talks about the support that’s poured in for her bookstore (Books Are Magic) and how best to support our local institutions right now. She also discusses... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-04-23 19:00:30 UTC ]
Book Culture, based in the same Queens neighborhood where Amazon wanted to set up shop, says it will be forced to close if the city or state doesn’t offer assistance. In New York City’s Long Island City neighborhood, down the road from where Amazon tried (and failed) to build a “second... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2019-06-26 15:56:45 UTC ]
Expanded into a full day conference, the NBF's Why Reading Matters awarded its $10,000 Innovations in Reading Prize to Alvin Irby of Barbership Books and featured a keynote address by novelist and new bookstore owner, Emma Straub. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The librarian of Congress and the novelist, poet, and bookstore owner have been named the winners of the 2017 WNBA Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a speech at BookExpo America, the author and bookstore owner said Amazon 'wants to kill us.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Disney execs are furious that the world exclusive on the embargoed Jackie Kennedy book and audiotapes was broken by NBC, and not ABC, according to the New York Posts Keith Kelly. Both ABC and the books publisher, Hyperion, are owned by Disney. The book, Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2011-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]