This Week In Indie Bookstores

A bookstore in Morgantown, North Carolina has created an annual college scholarship for local high school seniors.

There are some 75,000 books in this rustic Adirondack bookstore.

Ingram Content Group hopes to raise money for independent booksellers struggling due to the pandemic, and launched the new fundraising initiative with a grant of $500,000.

Employees of Moe’s Books in Berkeley have voted to unionize.

China hosted a conference to help bookstores move forward in a post-pandemic world.

Greenpointers profiles a handful of bookstores in north Brooklyn.

And on the West Coast, here are five San Diego bookstores to check out and another five shops in San Francisco.

A bookstore in Honolulu has a special display of fonts and typeface to accompany the art books it specializes in.

Book Riot shares a list of bookshop pins.

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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. Find him at IanMacAllen.com.

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