More than 300 new independent bookstores have sprouted across the U.S. in the past couple of years, in a surprising revival after an early pandemic slump. The book selling business — traditionally overwhelmingly white — has also become much more diverse.
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Our critic Molly Young on the "internal assurance that difficult books will not fry your hard drive upon impact; a confidence that it’s fine to be frightened or upset or baffled by books, that it won’t kill you. That it may, in fact, enlarge you." https://t.co/Ev3IN2Jjhk
My friend's bookstore is expecting to be without power for 2-3 weeks.
If you need a book right now, maybe click on their Bookshop dot org link?
And if you don't need a book for a while, maybe order directly from them! A good book is usually worth the wait. #NOLA
Charlotte Brontë, at 21 years old, showed all the signs of a young writer’s frustration: she was angry at herself for remaining unknown and angry at the world for its reluctance to know her, Peter Ackroyd writes. The author was born on this day in 1816.
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