Verso, the great radical publishers, have many authors on their list who would make for fine presidential candidates. One can imagine Fredric Jameson kicking off a mournful, utopian campaign in… Read more »

SubText Bookstore in St. Paul, MN, is relatively new to the Twin Cities bookstore scene. It opened in 2012 and step up shop in the space formerly occupied by Common… Read more »

James Patterson issued $473,000 in grants to independent bookstores this week—the third time the bestselling author has given out a round of funding as part of his million-dollar #SaveOurBooks campaign.… Read more »

In an “age of Amazon,” writes Bruce Handy in the November issue of Vanity Fair, Shakespeare and Company, the legendary bookshop in Paris is a “destination” with lines out the… Read more »

Over the weekend, Chicago held its first Independent Bookstore Day throughout the city, after—as Claire Kirch describes it in Publishers Weekly—not much more than a month of planning. By all accounts,… Read more »

Giovanni’s Room, the oldest LGBT bookstore in the US, announced last week that it will be shutting down in a few weeks, Angela Thomas writes for the Philadelphia Gay News.… Read more »

On a recent trip to London, I visited as many bookstores as I could. From a boutique shop in Notting Hill, to the used bookstores on Charing Cross Road, to… Read more »

Thanks to one very devoted and enthusiastic customer, a used bookstore in Washington will be able to keep its doors open. Megan Stephenson writes in the Kingston Community News that… Read more »

The Christian Science Monitor ran a cover story by Yvonne Zipp yesterday about the rise of independent bookstores in the U.S. Business is getting better! Zipp credits the fall of… Read more »

Last week, we told you about the Seattle bookstore formerly known as Queen Anne Books that had shut down in the fall and has just reopened as Queen Anne Book… Read more »