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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • April 23, 2019
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Collectors Might Be Surprised That Rare Books Are Rare

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 5, 2016
Rare books are harder to find than many amateur collectors think, and its more probable that buying old books leads to hoarding rather than a big payday. Its highly unlikely,…
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Read All These

  • Roxie Pell
  • December 1, 2015
Why stuff your body with Thanksgiving leftovers when you could be stuffing your bag with used books? It was another reminder that I will surely die before I read all…
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Old Friends Or Lovers

  • David Biespiel
  • November 3, 2015
I was becoming awed by the wide horizon of the speech that arose out of an individual life lived in a single era and generation. I was becoming attracted to the writer’s creativity.
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Amazing Bookshops from around the World

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • September 2, 2013
A character in Jim C. Hines’s Libriomancer calls bookstores “the closest thing I have to a church.” If you, too, worship at the altar of crowded shelves and cracked spines, you’ll…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • November 26, 2012
Our posting schedule was a little light over the holiday weekend, but Michelle Dean’s ode to used books is well worth a read: My copy of Anne of Green Gables,…
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Cobblers and Coverless Books

  • Paul Collins
  • March 10, 2009
Doing well: shoe repair shops and, according to the Telegraph of London, used bookstores:
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