When did America get its bookstores?
It’s 1931, in a book industry without returns, discounting, superstores, or even paperbacks. Where do you buy a book? As Alexis Madrigal writes in The Atlantic, the answer is not… 1 / Read more »
Pinch Pulitzer goes to David Foster Wallace
When the Pulitzer Prize board decided not to present an award for fiction last month, independent bookstores were frustrated at the lack of a winner, which would usually give them… Read more »
Famed English-language bookshop in Paris to close
Sad news for Parisian anglophones: The famed English-language bookshop The Village Voice is closing its doors July 31st, according to this report on the American Library in Paris website. While… 2 / Read more »
New pages discovered of The Little Prince
“Newly-discovered draft pages of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s The Little Prince — that may shed new, political insight on the classic book — have been put on display at a Paris… Read more »
Free Comic Book Day
This Saturday marks the tenth anniversary of Free Comic Book Day, an annual event since 2002 that delivers exactly what it promises. Retailers across the country will be offering specially… Read more »
Larry McMurtry’s last book sale?
Is it the beginning of the end for author Larry McMurtry’s giant bookstore in Western Texas? The famed author and long-time bookseller has announced he’s hosting a massive book auction… 3 / Read more »
World Book Night
Last night was World Book Night. In communities across the U.S. and beyond, people and groups organized efforts to give out free copies of various books in what Anna Quindlen, an… Read more »
SLIDESHOW: Found at The Strand
As New Yorkers know, The Strand bookstore (family owned since 1927) is a vast, sprawling expanse of new and used books, a place where you are liable to find nearly anything except—it… Read more »
Hail & Fairwell: Mr. Paperback
Fifty years is a long time to run a retail business. Especially if that business is selling books. For 50 years Mr. Paperback bookstores have serviced the greater Maine area.… 1 / Read more »
SLIDESHOW: Churches for book lovers, skateboarders, and supercomputers.
If you’re an atheist bibliophile with a love for church architecture, things don’t get much more appealing than the gorgeous Selexyz bookstore in The Netherlands, formerly a Dominican church. Last week Mental Floss posted photographs of churches converted to secular… Read more »