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Interview with a Bookstore: BookBar
Located in Denver’s Tennyson Street arts district, BookBar is an independent bookstore, wine bar, and cafe. What would you say is your bookstore’s specialty? We always hear about how comforting and...
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How LA Became a Destination on the Rare Book Trail
The book business is almost a business, similar to a bar . . . one is drunk on books and the other is drunk on whiskey; and in each place they hang around. –Louis Epstein Nobody ever thinks of Los...
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The Big Highs and Deep Lows of Opening an Independent Bookstore
When you tell people you’re opening an independent bookstore, they always have a strong opinion to share. Brave is a word that gets thrown around a lot. Strangers will worry about you (a bookstore in...
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‘Some People Only Know Feminist Bookstores from Portlandia.’
Violet Valley Bookstore is a queer, feminist bookstore located in Water Valley, Mississippi. Jaime Harker, who is also an English professor at University of Mississippi in Oxford, opened the store...
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Sector 2337 Wants To Challenge What a Book can Be
Located in Chicago, Sector 2337 began as The Green Lantern Gallery and Press in 2005. After closing in 2011 and re-opening briefly, it reopened again in Logan Square under its new name, Sector 2337,...
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On Men and Grief: Dispatches from My Book Tour
A hand goes up from the back of the room. It is an unexpected full house in a southern bookstore where I have been invited to talk about my memoir, The Widower’s Notebook. The man, late middle age,...
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In Praise of the Unshelveable: 10 Weird Finds From the Used Books Boxes
The summer after graduating high school I got a job at San Francisco’s Green Apple Books, one of those great old massive bookstores with more volumes than there are shelves to display them. It was a...
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In Sylvia Whitman’s Paris, Everything Revolves Around Poetry
Sylvia Whitman is radiant, bubbly and approachable when she greets us at the Shakespeare and Company bookshop on the banks of the Seine. It’s an autumn day and Paris is gilded in shades of red and...
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How to Open a Bookstore in Rural Scotland
FEBRUARY Would I like to be a bookseller de métier? On the whole—in spite of my employer’s kindness to me, and some happy days I spent in the shop—no. George Orwell, “Bookshop Memories,” London,...
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Interview with a Bookstore: Cape Town’s Book Lounge
Book Lounge has been named the best independent bookstore in South Africa for three years running and has developed a cult following not only in Cape Town, but around South Africa as well. We spoke...
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