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How Harry Potter Fans Are Driving the Romantasy Trend – The New York Times
Why Magic, Dragons and Explicit Sex Are in Bookstores Everywhere Listen to this article · 17:58 min By Alexandra Alter Published Aug. 20, 2025, Updated Aug. 21, 2025, 9:42 a.m. ET On a whim one night, Simona Stallone clicked on some Harry Potter fanfiction, and quickly tumbled down a rabbit hole. Ms. Stallone, a 28-year-old…
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What Publishing Can Do About Trump: Preserve the Independence of Our Bookstores and Libraries ‹ Literary Hub
What Publishing Can Do About Trump: Preserve the Independence of Our Bookstores and Libraries “A just world starves fascism of the nutrients it needs to thrive.” By Josh Cook, February 4, 2025 Source Links: What Publishing Can Do About Trump: Preserve the Independence of Our Bookstores and Libraries ‹ Literary Hub
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The Art of the Book | Picture This: Library of Congress Prints & Photos
September 12, 2022 by Kristi Finefield Join curators Adam Silvia and Sara Duke as they highlight photographically illustrated books as well as graphic illustrations for books in the Prints & Photographs Division collections in two upcoming virtual presentations. Read on for a preview of some of the images and volumes they will share. Photographically illustrated…
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On Maggie Bradbury, the woman who “changed literature forever.” ‹ Literary Hub
By Emily Temple, August 30, 2022, 9:40am Ray Bradbury met his first girlfriend—and his future wife—in a bookstore. But they didn’t lock eyes over the same just-selected novel, or bump into each other in a narrow aisle, sending books and feelings flying. It was a warm afternoon in April 1946, and 25-year-old Ray Bradbury—an up-and-coming pulp fiction…
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What We Gain from a Good Bookstore | The New Yorker
It’s a place whose real boundaries and character are much more than its physical dimensions. By Max Norman, August 6, 2022 “Will the day come where there are no more secondhand bookshops?” the poet, essayist, and bookseller Marius Kociejowski asks in his new memoir, “A Factotum in the Book Trade.” He suspects that such a…
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8 Mystery/Thriller Novels to Make You Ask When Libraries and Bookstores Got So Sus | Book Riot
By Addison Rizer Jul 15, 2022 For those of us who grew up obsessed with books, taking trips to the library every chance we got and memorizing the check-out limit, books have always been our safe spaces. They’re where we go when we have too much to do, or we’re going through something, or just…
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8 Cool Bookstores and Libraries You Can Spend the Night In | Mental Floss
By Ellen Gutoskey, August 23, 2021 To a bookworm, nowhere feels more like home than a bookstore, a library, or any other place stacked floor to ceiling with reading material. And if you’re heading far from home, you may find yourself wishing you could spend your nights among bookshelves instead of in unfamiliar hotels. Depending…
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Bookstores holding their own against digital onslaught – CBS News
Independent booksellers, which once seemed to be heading toward extinction, are making a modest comeback Source: Bookstores holding their own against digital onslaught – CBS News
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The Bay Area is still a literary haven from the mad digital world – San Francisco Chronicle
Chances are that you have because you live in the Bay Area, where books continue to beckon readers, despite the insistent siren calls of digital media. Independent bookstores have found new life, even in the growing shadow of Amazon; festivals, readings and book clubs continue to proliferate; and authors are still managing to make the…
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The Best Bookstore in Every State | Real Simple
Using an algorithm that looks at the number of reviews and star rating for each business, Yelp singled out the top bookseller in each state. Source: The Best Bookstore in Every State | Real Simple
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Baby Boomers Still the Spine of Independent Book Selling – ABC News
Baby Boomers Still the Spine of Independent Book Selling By hillel italie, ap national writer NEW YORK — Dec 1, 2015, 9:45 AM ET Bookstores have a long history as allies and nurturers of social movements, and a generation of owners came of age when works ranging from Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22” to Eldridge Cleaver’s “Soul…
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Bryan David Griffith: The Last Bookstores: America’s Resurgent Independents examines bookstores across the country (PHOTOS).
“Like the independent bookstores he photographs, Bryan David Griffith is a bit of a throwback. He does have an email address, but if you want to reach him on the phone, you have to dial a landline, and most likely track him down through his answering machine. His yearlong project covering more than 20 independent…
