bookstores

Paul Yamazaki on the Important, Joyous Work of Running an Independent Bookstore

“At a great store you can look at twelve well-selected, serendipitous linear inches and find a universe.”

 
By Paul Yamazaki  April 19, 2024
Bookselling

Why the Elderly Make the Best Customers: On Bookselling in an Aging Town

By Samantha Ladwig  April 18, 2024
The Hub

Shop with solidarity at these unionized (and unionizing) stores and publishers.

By James Folta  April 11, 2024
Reading

How Dyslexia Made Me More Passionate About Reading (and Selling) Books

By Cappy Yarbrough  April 10, 2024
Bookstores

Little Cash, Lots of Censorship: Bothayna Al-Essa on Opening a Bookstore in Kuwait

By Bothayna Al-Essa  April 3, 2024
Bookstores

A Restoration of Hope: Maniza Naqvi on Saving Karachi’s Oldest Bookstore

By Maniza Naqvi  March 22, 2024
The Hub

Your new literary dream job: reader-in-residence.

By Drew Broussard  March 6, 2024
The Hub

RuPaul has launched an online bookshop that will share its profits with writers.

By Emily Temple  March 4, 2024
Publishing

When Indie Publishing Meets Corporate Bookselling

By Michele Herman  March 4, 2024
Bookselling

Books for Indie Booksellers: On the Craft of Selling Books

By Rachael Conrad  February 23, 2024
Bookstores

Bring Back the Big, Comfortable Bookstore Reading Chair

By Casey Johnston  February 19, 2024
Fiction/Non/Fiction

Lauren Groff on Opening a Bookstore in Florida

By Fiction Non Fiction  January 11, 2024
Booksellers

What Booksellers Can Teach Us About Reading, Writing and Publishing

By Will Mountain Cox  January 5, 2024
Booksellers

From Local, to Global, to Gone: On the Rise and Fall of Borders Books

By Literary Hub  November 28, 2023
Lit Hub Questionnaire

Jonathan Lethem Hopes You Ask Him About Dedication Page

By Literary Hub  October 4, 2023
The Hub

Just for funsies, Michael Chabon built a replica of the SFF section of his childhood bookstore.

By Dan Sheehan  August 4, 2023
Bookstores

The Village Bookstore: Alba Donati on Returning to Her Rural Tuscan Roots

By Alba Donati  May 31, 2023
The Hub

Good news: there are more bookstores in the US this year than last.

By Jonny Diamond  May 22, 2023
The Hub

Chinese man builds bookstore on a mountaintop. Yes, he’s a poet.

By Jonny Diamond  May 8, 2023
The Hub

This Alaska bookstore in Sarah Palin’s hometown isn’t backing down about its drag story time.

By Jonny Diamond  May 4, 2023
Bookstores

10 of the Best Indie Bookstores in the World

By Emily Temple  April 28, 2023
The Hub

Turns out that America’s most “recession-proof” business is . . . bookstores.

By Emily Temple  March 15, 2023
The Hub

In a surprise to no one, Gen Z prefers printed books over e-books.

By Jonny Diamond  March 14, 2023
Booksellers

An Unstandardized, Decentralized Carnival Fire: How Rare Books Are Cataloged

By Oliver Darkshire  March 14, 2023
The Hub

Co-opening a bookstore is the new driving off a cliff with your bestie.

By Janet Manley  March 8, 2023
The Hub

Who will buy this little Welsh bookshop, which comes complete with hundreds of books?

By Emily Temple  March 1, 2023
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