Tag: bookstores

Once Upon a Tome, by Oliver Darkshire

A collection of short and often funny essays on the life of an antiquarian bookseller.

News & Notes – 4/05/2025

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff. NOTE on paywalls: Publisher’s Weekly and The Guardian may require you to sign up for a free account in order to read their content. Both The New York Times and the Washington Post have… Read more »

News & Notes – 3/15/2025

Terry Brooks retiring; Nebula Awards shortlist; new Harper Lee collection to be published; Macmillan fights back against Meta; book censorship news; London Book Fair; boycotting billionaires; and other links. Plus a peripatetic British cat!

News & Notes – 4/22/2023

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Literary Losses Anne Perry, bestselling author of the Charlotte & Thomas Pitt and William Monk historical mystery series, died on April 10, 2023, at the age… Read more »

84, Charing Cross Road, by Helene Hanff

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff Narrator: Barbara Rosenblatt, John Franklyn-Robbins Published by Recorded Books on 3/06/2017 Genres: Memoir Pages: 97 Format: Audiobook Purchase: Amazon | Bookshop | Barnes & Noble | Audible Add to Goodreads When Helene Hanff makes an innocent inquiry about the possibility of purchasing hard-to-find… August 24, 2022 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 5 ★★★★★

News & Notes – August 29, 2020

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Worth Reading/Viewing/Checking Out The Library is Open…Sort Of (Publishers Weekly) Brian Kenney looks at the pandemic’s effect on libraries now and its implications for the future…. Read more »

News & Notes – July 18, 2020

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Literary Losses Joanna Cole, author of the bestselling Magic School Bus series, died Sunday, July 12, at the age of 75. The cause of death is… Read more »

News & Notes – 6/13/2020

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News [American] Bookstores Go It Alone in Reopening. (Publishers Weekly) Many are being more cautious than their state guidelines require. ‘We’re so nervous’: England’s bookshops… Read more »

News & Notes – Coronavirus Edition, Week 12 (5/30/2020)

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News The Nebula Awards will be announced today (May 30), and you can watch the ceremony live on Facebook starting at 5:00 pm PDT (8:00… Read more »

News & Notes – Coronavirus Edition, Week 10 (5/16/2020)

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News Photo Essay: Bookstores Are Opening, Cautiously, Across the Country (Publishers Weekly) Print Unit Sales Up 9.9% In Early May (Publishers Weekly) Booksellers Look to… Read more »