Scenes from the 2015 Christopher Morley Walk
Of the many ways to bond with strangers on a beautiful summer’s day, you can’t beat walking and talking for hours on end. So Melville House and Book Riot (with the… Read more »
One man’s journey to commemorate the greatest bookstores in the world
New York City has seen a run of independent bookstore moves and closings this year, a state of affairs that seems to be coming from the ever increasing rent in… Read more »
Rizzoli Bookstore moves out of Midtown, like the rest of the NY book world
Rizzoli Bookstore looks right. It looks left. It explodes south, barreling past hotels and stops just short of the Flatiron Building on Broadway. The bookstore closed in April 2014 with… Read more »
TONIGHT: Jean-Christophe Valtat in conversation with Laura Miller at BookCourt
What is steampunk? Is it important? Does genre have an important role in literary culture? Or is genre troublesome, as Soren Kierkegaard may have unintentionally implied when he wrote that… Read more »