This Week in Indie Bookstores

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Check out these oddly located bookstores from around the world.

A Louisville, Kentucky bookstore is fighting homelessness.

China’s bookstores are coming together in an effort to survive the COVID-19 outbreak.

This Malaysian bookstore has more than a million books.

After fraudsters scammed a Cape Cod bookstore, the local community works together to keep the shop open.

A bookstore employee helped nab a serial killer.


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 →