On April 30, the Children’s Book Shop in Brookline Village, Mass., will close its doors after 45 years. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-04-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
L.A. transplant Stanley Rose's short-lived 1930s bookstore and boozy backroom became a literary haven for Chandler, Fante, Faulkner, West and many more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-04-14 13:00:44 UTC ]
A guide to the literary geography of Los Angeles: A comprehensive bookstore map, writers' meetups, place histories, an author survey, essays and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-04-14 13:00:40 UTC ]
The oldest bookstore in SoCal has always known its customers best, from tourists to Caltech professors and the diverse clientele that adores it today. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-04-14 13:00:37 UTC ]
Amy Winehouse was an avowed bookstore browser and book-lover—in a 2007 interview, she told The Guardian that she never traveled without a good book. “I read a lot when I’m travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.” If you’re interested in perusing the late singers collection, you... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-04-13 19:15:56 UTC ]
There is something solemn about mornings, when the world is quiet and the shop is calm. The books are illuminated by a dim natural light. When empty, the bookstore is filled with community, with our collective memory—with aspiration both communal and individual—and when full, the bookstore often... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-04-13 08:52:06 UTC ]
My first encounter with Valzhyna Mort’s work was Collected Body, her second book of poems released in America, which I picked off a shelf in a bookstore in Upstate New York. As its title suggests, the collection explores the body as a conflicted site of desire and repulsion, mythology and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-04-13 08:51:54 UTC ]
I decided to become a volunteer at my local anarchistic bookstore during the pandemic. This is what it's like. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-04-08 10:35:00 UTC ]
New Yorkers still tell stories of browsing at Harlem’s Liberation Bookstore or spending the afternoon at Scribner’s. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-04-01 09:03:09 UTC ]
The five bookstore finalists and five sales rep finalists have been announced in PW's annual award program. Winners will be announced at PW's U.S. Book Show set for May 23-26. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-03-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
After opening its first bookstore with much fanfare in November 2015, Amazon is closing all of its 24 physical bookstores as well as its 4-star and pop-up stores, which carry a mix of items, including some books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-03-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
The retail giant will shut its bookstore in San Jose and Walnut Creek, as well as it its 4-star stores in Burlingame, Berkeley and Corte Madera as part of a company-wide brick-and-mortar reset. Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2022-03-02 23:22:50 UTC ]
The Blue Manatee Literacy Project announced that the children's bookstore is closing on March 13. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-03-02 05:00:00 UTC ]
Today's edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by SecondSale, Your Neighborhood Bookstore Online!`SecondSale, Your Neighborhood Bookstore... Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-02-25 12:37:57 UTC ]
Today's edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by SecondSale, Your Neighborhood Bookstore Online!`SecondSale, Your Neighborhood Bookstore... Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-02-21 15:42:22 UTC ]
In this excerpt from his new book, Daniel Pink writes about choices that seem irresistible at first, but morph into powerful regrets later in life. For a guy whom antiquity scholars say might never have existed, Aesop has enjoyed a pretty good run as an author. The fables that bear his name (but... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2022-02-18 09:00:06 UTC ]
A brief but happy update: The Bookseller has reported that Samir Mansour Bookshop, the largest bookstore in Gaza, will reopen next week after being destroyed by an Israeli airstrike last May. The reopening was made possible by a GoFundMe campaign led by human rights lawyers Mahvish Rukhsana and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-02-07 16:07:29 UTC ]
On February 2, 1922, Sylvia Beach, through her legendary bookstore and occasional imprint Shakespeare and Company, published James Joyce’s modernist novel, Ulysses, in its entirety for the very first time. (It was also Joyce’s 40th birthday.) Since then, it has been banned and celebrated,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-02-02 09:55:38 UTC ]
Works by writers like bell hooks, Damon Young and James Baldwin that will educate and make an impact on everyone. Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2022-01-31 16:37:38 UTC ]
I have a terrible habit of going on the internet and looking at properties I can’t afford. (A hobby many of my fellow millennials share, I’m sure.) From my cramped Brooklyn apartment with pots of spaghetti piled haphazardly in the kitchen, I like to criticize the design choices of millionaires... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-01-28 19:45:49 UTC ]