• Bookstores and Libraries

    The Hub

    Are we really going to start disinfecting our used books?

    By Jonny Diamond  January 3, 2023
    Christmas

    Chocolate, Books, and More Books: Could America Even Handle Iceland’s Traditional Christmas “Book Flood”?

    By Jess deCourcy Hinds  December 23, 2022
    Rare Books

    What Happened to the Rare Books Brought Aboard the Titanic?

    By Emma Smith  December 19, 2022
    The Hub

    Thomas Pynchon’s archives have a home (Oedipa Maas and Zipi Pisk can finally relax)

    By Jonny Diamond  December 16, 2022
    Booksellers

    Napoleonic Conspiracy Theories, Unsociable Shabbiness, and More Occupational Hazards of the Second-Hand Book Trade

    By Shaun Bythell  December 7, 2022
    The Hub

    Is this the best library Instagram in America?

    By Jonny Diamond  December 2, 2022
    The Hub

    To make matters worse, an iconic L.A. bookstore was targeted by arsonists this weekend.

    By Emily Temple  November 7, 2022
    Philosophy

    How Stoicism Guided Me Through Opening a Small Town Bookstore in the Midst of the Pandemic

    By Ryan Holiday  November 7, 2022
    Libraries

    A Good Research Librarian Can Help You Find Information You Didn’t Even Know You Needed

    By Sarah Shoemaker  November 4, 2022
    Book Recommendations

    The Art of the Hand-Sell: 31 Spooky, Eerie, and Uncanny Books for Halloween

    By Katie Yee  October 31, 2022
    The Hub

    Where the Wild Things Bone: Stephen Colbert mocks Republicans’ moral panic.

    By Jonny Diamond  October 27, 2022
    Bookstores

    How Booksellers Conspired to Create the Perfect Bookstore Marriage Proposal

    By Gordon Dossett  October 27, 2022
    Libraries

    This Is Not a Drill: How to Go Into Lockdown in a School Library 

    By Jess deCourcy Hinds  October 26, 2022
    The Hub

    Japanese bookstores are closing at a much faster rate than here in America.

    By Jonny Diamond  October 25, 2022
    Books

    How Traveling Booksellers Spread Literature Throughout Ancient Greece

    By Irene Vallejo  October 18, 2022
    The Hub

    Turkish garbage collectors have created a library from discarded books.

    By Jonny Diamond  October 7, 2022
    First Editions

    Elizabeth McCracken Traces the Life of a First Edition… Her Own

    By Elizabeth McCracken  October 4, 2022
    Bookstores

    New York City’s Best Bookstore Storefronts: An Illustrated (Incomplete) List

    By David Dodge and Joel Holland  October 4, 2022
    Publishing

    “Get Big Fast.” How Amazon Accelerated the Commodification of Literature

    By Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow  October 3, 2022
    The Hub

    Hundreds of authors signed a letter in support of libraries’ digital rights.

    By Corinne Segal  September 29, 2022
    The Hub

    Dozens of libraries in England and Wales may become “warm banks” for people who need shelter.

    By Corinne Segal  September 28, 2022
    The Hub

    Is this the weirdest American book-banning yet?

    By Jonny Diamond  September 26, 2022
    Book Bans

    It’s official: Book-banning attempts aimed at libraries are way up this year.

    By Corinne Segal  September 16, 2022
    The Hub

    Strand Bookstore’s $1,500 Bottega Veneta tote bag sucks and I hate it.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 13, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Rachel DeWoskin on Registering Voters (Right Now!) and the Connection Between Writing and Democracy

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 8, 2022
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