This Week in Indie Bookstores
A Chinese man found the love of his life at a bookstore, although he doesn’t actually know who she is, so he decided to file a lawsuit against her. Here’s hoping it works out? Quartz speaks with...
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Check out the story of how the Bronx’s only independent bookstore, The Lit Bar, came to be. Japan’s Kinokuniya Books is set to open its first Portland, Oregon location this summer. Barnes & Noble...
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New York City’s Book Culture is hoping to raise enough money to keep its four locations open. Times are tough for independent booksellers, but should bookstores charge admission? This Greek bookstore...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #230: Carley Moore
For twenty years now, I’ve read and been read by Carley Moore. We’ve shared manuscripts and publishing advice, co-run a reading series, planned and taught together as teachers, and most importantly,...
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Is it your civic duty to buy a book from a local bookseller? (Probably, yes.) Seriously, bookstores need to sell some books. A retired Ohio teacher has created a mobile bookstore to help improve...
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Chicago’s City Lit Books is set to reopen in June under new ownership. Fast Company examines how Bookshop.org helped indie shops survive the pandemic. Pittsburgh’s White Whale Bookstore planned to open...
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Dream of being a bookseller? This cute and beloved bookstore in upstate New York is for sale. The most instagrammed bookstore in the world is downtown Los Angeles’s The Last Bookstore. Check out these...
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Bookshop.org continues to add more shops and sales. Chicago is getting a pay-what-you-can bookstore. A woman in Bengaluru, India, runs a pop-up bookstore from her house. A Toronto cafe hides a secret...
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Haunted, Beloved: A Conversation with Jacques Rancourt
A Maine transplant to the Bay Area, Jacques Rancourt writes at the intersections of queerness and the pastoral. The winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd prize, Rancourt’s first collection Novena...
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Make something inexplicable happen: An Interview with Morgan Talty
Morgan Talty’s debut, Night of the Living Rez, is a linked short story collection that follows David as he grows up on the Penobscot Reservation in Maine. The collection opens with “Burn,” in which...
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