There are a lot of lackluster traditions for the day before Thanksgiving: hitting your local bar at night, prepping yourself to face your cousin with the bad politics, going toe-to-toe with fellow procrastinators over that last bag of cranberries. I’d like to pitch a new tradition for your... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-11-27 18:17:12 UTC ]
On Saturdays in late ’90s, my father, a taxi driver, would pool his tips for the week and take me, a child too precocious for his own good, to a local bookstore in search of my next read. Together, we silently wandered the store, picking up paperbacks and inspecting their pages. On shelves that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-09-17 08:55:21 UTC ]
“I never thought I’d be one of those people,” she said. T Kira Madden and I were sitting in the private room of a fancy strip-mall restaurant in Albany, New York, and I was eating a very expensive salad. Earlier that afternoon, we had given a reading at a local bookstore with T Kira’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2023-01-19 12:05:00 UTC ]
Regardless of how 2021 went for you, 2022 is another chance for all of us to make the new year better than those that came before it. We set New Year’s resolutions with the best of intentions, but it’s no wonder that so many people fail after just a few weeks – old habits die hard. Just as it’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2022-01-01 14:34:42 UTC ]
When it comes to serious decisions in business or in life, this mental quirk can set us up for catastrophic failure unless we actively work to keep it in check. Imagine this: You’re heading for the cashier at your local bookstore when you pass a display selling coffee mugs for $5. There’s only... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2021-05-07 05:00:19 UTC ]
Is there anything better than (safe, socially distanced, double masked, sanitized) browsing at your local indie? I was having the crumbiest day the other day, and I passed by my local bookstore (the Greenlight on Flatbush, if you know it) as I was running errands. Well, I couldn’t not go in.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-02-09 13:30:25 UTC ]
My local bookstore is long, narrow, and outlined in wooden bookshelves. It’s wedged in an old Victorian building that sits across from the Salish Sea, where orcas, seals, and otters are frequently sighted. It smells like paper and salt water, and holds some 3,000 titles that reveal to tourists... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-12-07 09:49:19 UTC ]
You know what they say: November is the new December! When’s the best time to support your local bookstore and get holiday gifts? Well, there’s no time like the present. (Get it?) (I’m sorry.) (But seriously, support your favorite indie and check out these new books!) * Jonathan Lethem, The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-10 19:44:02 UTC ]
Independent booksellers are desperate for customers to return, and not just for an online reading. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-10-15 09:00:28 UTC ]
Yesterday I stopped in at my local bookstore in London. It’s a small shop, but a good one, and seeing its doors open again was like hearing an ice-cream truck from a block away as a kid. I walked straight into traffic to cross the street to get there. Inside the reality of our time […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-08-06 08:49:19 UTC ]
If your local bookstore is all sold out of its books on anti-racism, good. Finally. Backorder them for yourself. But in the meantime, the audiobook version of Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the 2016 National Book Award... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-06-04 14:34:08 UTC ]
On this episode of Sheltering, Maris Kreizman talks to Kate Elizabeth Russell about her recent novel, My Dark Vanessa. Kate shares the things that are helping to get through this time of isolation: Fiona Apple, the game Animal Crossing, and eating “like she’s at a sleepover.” Kate’s local... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-25 19:00:22 UTC ]
From bestsellers to textbooks, stolen content is easily found on a 14-year-old hosting service operated by Microsoft’s social network. Mid-level writers are hurt the most. If you want to purchase a copy of The Institute, Stephen King’s latest novel about supernatural kids, you could find it at... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2020-01-15 13:00:52 UTC ]
The popular gaming chat app wants to be the local bookstore to Steam’s Amazon. Discord hopes to claim a piece of the $29 billion digital PC game sales market by adding a store to its popular gaming chat app. The Discord Store Beta, which is launching today after a limited test run in Canada,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2018-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon is adding its first campus pick-up location; Harvard is experimenting with an indie bookstore; NYC is about to get two new indies; and East Hampton's local bookstore is changing hands. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The bestselling author has partnered with her local bookstore on a writer-in-residence program in Scottsdale, Ariz. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
After the success of the Indies First movement this November, in which authors worked at independent bookstores, the newest event is called Storytime Day. Spokesperson Kate DiCamillo urges authors to read a story at their local bookstore. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
When you’re shopping for gifts, try getting a recommendation from an actual human expert at your local bookstore, suggests Ross Ufberg of New Vessel Press. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Espresso Book Machine means that booksellers can publish and sell an enormous number of titles. But can they make the finances work? Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2012-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the 2011 Man Booker Prize finalist, the author has pitch-perfect voice and her jazz musician characters have rhythmic conversations.Not unlike its counterpart rock 'n' roll, memorable jazz novels occupy a pretty slim shelf at the local bookstore. Though the music has been gracefully spun into... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]