The Storefront (place)

THE FOLLOWING EXCERPT is the opening section from chapter three of my book in progress, Unpacking My Father’s Bookstore, a memoir and critical study about growing up in my father’s Jewish bookstore. As Harelick and Roth Books and then J. Roth / Bookseller of Fine & Scholarly Judaica, the store was a microcosm of the […] The post The Storefront (place) appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

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Do readers of ebooks sacrifice a sense of 'place' within a text?

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[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-12-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Slicebooks Debuts Customizable Storefront App

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[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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