Support Indie Bookstores Without Leaving Your Home

For the past six years, Independent Bookstore Day—billed as a “one-day national party that takes place at indie bookstores across the country”—has taken place on the last Saturday of April. (That’s tomorrow!) It’s usually a fun, light-hearted, occasionally raucous spring day where book lovers go on a crawl, buying books and collecting stamps at bookstores […] The post Support Indie Bookstores Without Leaving Your Home appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'

[ Electric Literature | 2020-04-24 11:00:00 UTC ]

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