May 14, 2014

Here is a gem of a headline from Richard Chirgwin at The Register: “Birmingham’s Computer Bookshops Ltd goes titsup: Dead tree downturn does for venerable technical publisher.” Computer Bookshops Ltd,… Read more »

Booksellers & bookselling

Ask a bookseller---Book Court's Bonnie Chau — Melville House
Customer threatens Northshire Bookstore for displaying the Qur’an — Kait Howard
Isis Books & Gifts changes signage, dodges blind wrath of ignorant brick-throwers — Simon Reichley
Barnes & Noble takes penultimate step to exiting Queens — Liam O'Brien

“Vartan af Godot””: A Yiddish production of “Godot” goes to Ireland

Sal Robinson

This is the third year of “Happy Days,” the annual Beckett festival in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, and this year the festival has a new addition: the first-ever Yiddish production of… Read more »

The Seattle Public Library celebrates its 10th anniversary

Claire Kelley

The history of the Seattle Public Library can be traced back to 1868, but the past decade has been particularly exciting. That’s because on May 23, 2004, the new downtown… Read more »

Oscar Wilde book, inscribed to his jailer, is up for auction

Julia Fleischaker

According to Alison Flood in The Guardian, a copy of The Importance of Being Earnest, inscribed by Oscar Wilde himself, is going up for auction. The backstory offers a poignant rebuke… Read more »

Gary Shteyngart blurbs the world’s worst books

Zeljka Marosevic

Last month we reported the sad news that Gary Shteyngart, one of the best book blurbers around, was retiring from blurbing. “Literature can and will go on without my mass… Read more »

Melville House Books

Tech bookseller in Birmingham goes “titsup”

Kirsten Reach