Barnes & Noble takes penultimate step to exiting Queens
After twenty years, Barnes & Noble has officially closed their location in Forest Hills, Queens. Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska reports at DNAinfo: Patrons who came to visit the store in its final days said they… Read more »
Astoria Bookshop is selling Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book at cost to encourage people to read it
The building sense of urgency leading up to the publication of Between The World And Me, the second book by Ta-Nehisi Coates, was palpable. The decision by Spiegel & Grau to move… Read more »
Are bookstores agents of gentrification?
If bookstores are fleeing high city rents, what happens to the neighborhoods where they land? Are bookstores as culpable for gentrification as anyone else? Last week the New York Times… Read more »