• Bookstores and Libraries

    Summer reading

    The Art of the Hand-Sell: Booksellers Recommend… Beach Reads?

    By Katie Yee  July 8, 2022
    Libraries

    How Fiction Helps Bring History’s Extraordinary Yet Forgotten Women To Life

    By Alexandra Lapierre  June 30, 2022
    The Hub

    Check out a cool new guide to indie bookstores on the West coast.

    By Corinne Segal  June 29, 2022
    The Hub

    These superstar middle-grade writers are giving indie bookstores a summer boost.

    By Jonny Diamond  June 29, 2022
    Writers in Conversation

    Revisiting Tracy Flick 30 Years Later: Tom Perrotta Talks to Emma Straub

    By Literary Hub  June 28, 2022
    The Hub

    From Duluth to Decatur these bookstores are helping in the fight for reproductive justice.

    By Katie Yee  June 27, 2022
    The Hub

    Long Island library board comes to its senses and reverses ban on children’s Pride displays.

    By Andrew Sciallo  June 24, 2022
    The Hub

    First they came for queer story time… And what did you do?

    By Jonny Diamond  June 24, 2022
    Happy Pride

    111 Queer Books Recommended by Librarians, Booksellers, and Authors

    By Literary Hub  June 24, 2022
    Shelf Talkers

    Shelf Talkers: What They’re Reading at Brazos Bookstore in Houston, Texas

    By Literary Hub  June 24, 2022
    The Hub

    This right wing religious website is telling readers to ruin LGBQT+ library displays.

    By Jonny Diamond  June 17, 2022
    The Hub

    Things I Hate: Please don’t buy your dad a lifetime supply of 12-minute “micro books.”

    By Jonny Diamond  June 15, 2022
    The Hub

    One of the country’s oldest Black-owned bookstores is closing.

    By Katie Yee  June 14, 2022
    The Hub

    The sad-sack, fascist Proud Boys have sunk to a new low: storming a library story time.

    By Jonny Diamond  June 13, 2022
    The Hub

    Can we please make Banned Book Fairs the hot new nationwide trend?

    By Jonny Diamond  June 10, 2022
    The Hub

    The New York Public Library is giving 500,000 free books (for keeps!) to kids and families.

    By Jessie Gaynor  June 9, 2022
    The Hub

    A new community-oriented bookstore has opened on the Lower East Side.

    By Katie Yee  June 6, 2022
    The Hub

    For shame: Bram Stoker was a serial defiler of library books.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 24, 2022
    The Internet

    Was You’ve Got Mail Trying to Warn Us About the Internet? (Or Telling Us to Give Up?)

    By Olivia Rutigliano  May 20, 2022
    Libraries

    Founding the First English-Language Library in Gaza

    By Mosab Abu Toha  May 19, 2022
    Book Tours

    What Do We Lose—and Gain—As Book Tours Move Online?

    By Guy Gavriel Kay  May 18, 2022
    But Make It Fashion

    Emma Straub’s Advice for What to Wear to a Book Launch

    By Emma Straub  May 17, 2022
    Libraries

    On My Love of Libraries: Lessons From My Father

    By Rachel M. Harper  May 16, 2022
    Asian American Literature

    The Art of the Hand-Sell: It’s Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month!

    By Katie Yee  May 12, 2022
    The Hub

    Courageous Afghan teenagers help start an underground book club in defiance of Taliban.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 9, 2022
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