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Hardcover 451: Thought Police-ing Literary Loose Cannons
Please excuse our mixed dystopic metaphors, but Edward Champion reports that bookish types are debating whether or not bookstores should be able to request that visiting authors keep their curse words...
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10 Unconventional Bookstores For Your Browsing Pleasure
This week, the Paris Review let us in on a little secret — an illegal, speakeasy-style bookstore right here in our fair city of New York. While we try to hunt down the exact coordinates in hopes of a...
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Urban Legend: Manhattan Street Bookseller Has Been Holding His Parking Spot...
Is this the modern definition of a vagabond cowboy? Street bookseller Charles Mysak has kept his Upper West Side parking spot in Manhattan since he first snagged it in the year 2000. He makes a living...
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Readers’ Choice: 20 More Beautiful Bookstores from Around the World
Recently, we scoured the globe (and the Internet) to bring you our picks for the 20 most beautiful bookstores in the world. But of course, there are hundreds of gorgeous bookstores, and even more...
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Venture Inside of Holland's Most Sacred Bookstore
A bookstore is something of a sacred place these days. The few independent outlets that remain are rare opportunities to retreat from the churning of the city and peruse an infinite number of worlds....
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10 of the Coolest Niche Bookstores From Around the World
We all know about the plight of independent and specialty bookstores, so we won’t lament it again here. Suffice it to say, fellow book and bookstore lovers, that all is not lost! We recently found out...
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10 Awesome Bookstores Repurposed from Unused Structures
A few months ago, we showed you a collection of wonderful libraries repurposed from unused buildings, but we can’t let libraries have all the fun. Despite the media-fueled fear that they’ll all be...
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The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World
[Editor's note: In celebration of the holidays, we're counting down the top 12 Flavorwire features of 2012. This post, at #1, was originally published January 31.] With Amazon slowly taking over the...
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8 Beautiful Bookstores in Residential Spaces
This morning, we discovered the way we’d like to spend our golden years — turning our home into a neighborhood bookstore and café, and bringing the culture to us. Inspired by the Japanese couple that...
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Peek at the Staff Picks Shelves From Indie Bookstores All Over America
We have to admit — though we love pretty much everything about brick-and-mortar bookstores, one of the best parts is often the staff picks shelf, where we’ve found (and enjoyed) many an unusual...
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15 Amazing Book-Filled Bars Where We’d Like to Drink
You know what’s better than a night out? A night out with a book. Or, in the case of many of these fine establishments, a whole wall of books. After all, when else will you feel as inspired to pull...
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20 Amazing Outdoor Libraries and Bookstores From All Over the World
At long last, the weather is warming up, allowing for long walks, open windows, and (of course) the return of reading outside. But there’s yet another pleasure that you may not have tried — browsing...
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30 Excellent Bookstore Windows From Around the World
If you’re a reader of this space, you already know how we feel about bookstores. Namely, we rather appreciate their beauty. But do you know what else we like? Window shopping. And for window shopping,...
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45 Great American Indie Bookstores to Support This Holiday Season
No matter how bleak the news about publishing gets, independently owned bookstores are surviving, and in some cases thriving, in an Amazon-ruled, post-bookstore chain environment that shouldn’t...
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Beautiful Vintage Photos of Bygone Bookstores
In this age of online ordering, physical bookstores aren’t getting all the love and attention they deserve. But you know that already. So before you head out to your local bookseller to pick up the...
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The Future of the Physical Bookstore: Amazon vs. The Independents
“Where there is confusion, there is profit,” goes an old adage of the greedy. But might it work the other way around? In publishing, few predicted the renewed vigor of the printed book, and still fewer...
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Amazing Occult Bookshops in Cinema
While bookshops are rapidly (and depressingly) disappearing in the real world, cinema has preserved some of the most famous on film. Some of the most interesting bookshops in movies offer tomes on...
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