This Week in Indie Bookstores

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Baby Boomers are finding bookstore ownership offers an enticing second career.

The Internet, once a threat, could save independent bookstores.

A ninety-year-old man runs bookstore in Suzhou, China that he inherited from his grandfather.

The Community Bookstore in Brooklyn has finally closed after the owner sold the building last year.

A Missouri bookstore is nominated for a nationwide best bathroom award. Voting is available online until November 2.

Check out Nove Valley’s Omnivore Books, a store dedicated to culinary books.

A Marfa, Texas hotel houses a bookstore and publisher inside its building.

Ian MacAllen is the author of Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American (Rowman & Littlefield, April 2022). His writing has appeared in Chicago Review of Books, Southern Review of Books, The Offing, 45th Parallel Magazine, Little Fiction, Vol 1. Brooklyn, and elsewhere. He tweets @IanMacAllen and is online at IanMacAllen.com. More from this author →