Everything you need to know about the Powell’s AI slop snafu—and what we can all learn from it.: Another day, another duel with AI slop. Unfortunately a recent deep fake has come in the guise of a friend. Last Friday, Powell’s Books of Portland, Oregon—one of the… #BookNews #BookstoresandLibraries
Everything you need to know about the Powell’s AI slop snafu—and what we can all learn from it.
Another day, another duel with AI slop. Unfortunately a recent deep fake has come in the guise of a friend. Last Friday, Powell’s Books of Portland, Oregon—one of the country’s best loved bookstores and the largest indie in the world—found itself on the business end of a social media firestorm when local artists and booksellers […]
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September 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Everything you need to know about the Powell’s AI slop snafu—and what we can all learn from it.: Another day, another duel with AI slop. Unfortunately a recent deep fake has come in the guise of a friend. Last Friday, Powell’s Books of Portland, Oregon—one of the… #BookNews #BookstoresandLibraries
Any Coloradan with a cell phone will soon be able to access banned books for free.: This #BannedBookWeek, we have a lot to lament. Though some book bans have been stalled or swatted down in the courts, stealthy removal campaigns continue. At home and abroad. But… #BookNews #BookstoresandLibraries
Any Coloradan with a cell phone will soon be able to access banned books for free.
This #BannedBookWeek, we have a lot to lament. Though some book bans have been stalled or swatted down in the courts, stealthy removal campaigns continue. At home and abroad. But as Haylee May of CPR News first reported, at least the good people of Colorado will have free speech to celebrate. Thanks to the administrators […]
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October 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Any Coloradan with a cell phone will soon be able to access banned books for free.: This #BannedBookWeek, we have a lot to lament. Though some book bans have been stalled or swatted down in the courts, stealthy removal campaigns continue. At home and abroad. But… #BookNews #BookstoresandLibraries
21 Attorneys General are suing to save America’s libraries.: On Friday, a group of 21 state Attorneys General from across the US announced a lawsuit challenging the Trump and Musk cuts to federal agencies. The team of state AGs are suing to to protect a… #BookstoresandLibraries #NewsandCulture
21 Attorneys General are suing to save America’s libraries.
On Friday, a group of 21 state Attorneys General from across the US announced a lawsuit challenging the Trump and Musk cuts to federal agencies. The team of state AGs are suing to to protect a number of organizations, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services which was recently forced to put its staff […]
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April 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
21 Attorneys General are suing to save America’s libraries.: On Friday, a group of 21 state Attorneys General from across the US announced a lawsuit challenging the Trump and Musk cuts to federal agencies. The team of state AGs are suing to to protect a… #BookstoresandLibraries #NewsandCulture
Stuck in a reading rut? Sign up for the annual Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge.: Is your TBR pile… https://lithub.com/s... #BookNews #BookstoresandLibraries
February 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Stuck in a reading rut? Sign up for the annual Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge.: Is your TBR pile… https://lithub.com/s... #BookNews #BookstoresandLibraries
The Reforestation of American Civic Life: What Publishing Can Do in the Face of the Trump: In the time since Donald Trump returned to the White House, he has done more damage to the federal government’s ability to function than any president in history. He has lit… #BookNews #BookstoresandLibraries
The Reforestation of American Civic Life: What Publishing Can Do in the Face of the Trump
In the time since Donald Trump returned to the White House, he has done more damage to the federal government’s ability to function than any president in history. He has lit the fuse on a half-dozen or more different crises, from general inflation, to the collapse of our food systems, to a total breakdown of […]
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March 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
The Reforestation of American Civic Life: What Publishing Can Do in the Face of the Trump: In the time since Donald Trump returned to the White House, he has done more damage to the federal government’s ability to function than any president in history. He has lit… #BookNews #BookstoresandLibraries
Oregon has passed a bill to protect school libraries from book bans.: Another win for freedom to read legislation on the West Coast this week, as Oregon’s state House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 1098 on Monday, a bill that will protect access to books in… #BookNews #BookstoresandLibraries
Oregon has passed a bill to protect school libraries from book bans.
Another win for freedom to read legislation on the West Coast this week, as Oregon’s state House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 1098 on Monday, a bill that will protect access to books in school libraries. It’s great news: books can no longer be banned solely because they discuss sexuality, religion, or other topics, nor […]
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June 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Oregon has passed a bill to protect school libraries from book bans.: Another win for freedom to read legislation on the West Coast this week, as Oregon’s state House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 1098 on Monday, a bill that will protect access to books in… #BookNews #BookstoresandLibraries
In Line With All the Pynchon Fans at the Midnight Release of Shadow Ticket: It’s 10:30pm on a Monday, and a line a dozen deep has formed outside Greenlight Books in Brooklyn. A dapper employee in suspenders and fedora comes out to give instructions—we’re to “say… #BookNews #BookstoresandLibraries
In Line With All the Pynchon Fans at the Midnight Release of Shadow Ticket
It’s 10:30pm on a Monday, and a line a dozen deep has formed outside Greenlight Books in Brooklyn. A dapper employee in suspenders and fedora comes out to give instructions—we’re to “say we know Tommy” to secure admission. Why? Because
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October 16, 2025 at 12:20 AM
In Line With All the Pynchon Fans at the Midnight Release of Shadow Ticket: It’s 10:30pm on a Monday, and a line a dozen deep has formed outside Greenlight Books in Brooklyn. A dapper employee in suspenders and fedora comes out to give instructions—we’re to “say… #BookNews #BookstoresandLibraries
Schumer “postponing” his book tour tells me he still doesn’t get the message.: After a thorough excoriating by Democrats who are… https://lithub.com/s... #BookNews #BookstoresandLibraries
March 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Schumer “postponing” his book tour tells me he still doesn’t get the message.: After a thorough excoriating by Democrats who are… https://lithub.com/s... #BookNews #BookstoresandLibraries
Three unionized Barnes & Nobles in NYC have ratified an historic first contract.: The Retail, Wholesale and Department… https://lithub.com/t... #BookstoresandLibraries #NewsandCulture
March 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Three unionized Barnes & Nobles in NYC have ratified an historic first contract.: The Retail, Wholesale and Department… https://lithub.com/t... #BookstoresandLibraries #NewsandCulture
Why Everyone—Yes, Everyone—Should Join a Book Club: “Books are something social—a writer speaking to a reader—so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.” –Yann Martel * Our country… #BookstoresandLibraries #CraftandAdvice
Why Everyone—Yes, Everyone—Should Join a Book Club
“Books are something social—a writer speaking to a reader—so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.” –Yann Martel * Our country is experiencing a loneliness epidemic. From the US surgeon general’s 2023 report Our Epidemic of Loneliness and […]
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September 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Why Everyone—Yes, Everyone—Should Join a Book Club: “Books are something social—a writer speaking to a reader—so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.” –Yann Martel * Our country… #BookstoresandLibraries #CraftandAdvice
How many books is a lot of books? How many is too many?: As they say, one man’s collection is another man’s hoarded fire hazard, but reading this story—of a fancy Philadelphia townhouse stuffed to the rafters with 100,000 books—had me wondering where, exactly, that… #BookstoresandLibraries #TheHub
How many books is a lot of books? How many is too many?
As they say, one man’s collection is another man’s hoarded fire hazard, but reading this story—of a fancy Philadelphia townhouse stuffed to the rafters with 100,000 books—had me wondering where, exactly, that line is. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer: [Estate sales expert] John Romani encountered an enigma recently when he was hired to handle the […]
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October 4, 2025 at 3:03 AM
How many books is a lot of books? How many is too many?: As they say, one man’s collection is another man’s hoarded fire hazard, but reading this story—of a fancy Philadelphia townhouse stuffed to the rafters with 100,000 books—had me wondering where, exactly, that… #BookstoresandLibraries #TheHub
Reading Rainbow is back, thanks to this famous internet librarian.: After a 20 year hiatus, Reading Rainbow, the former PBS tentpole, is headed back to the airwaves. A reboot of the literacy loving children’s television show is coming to a (small) screen near… #BookNews #BookstoresandLibraries
Reading Rainbow is back, thanks to this famous internet librarian.
After a 20 year hiatus, Reading Rainbow, the former PBS tentpole, is headed back to the airwaves. A reboot of the literacy loving children’s television show is coming to a (small) screen near you—thanks in part to a brand new host. Mychal Threets, a former Solano County librarian turned beloved fixture of kiddie #Bookstagram, will […]
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October 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Reading Rainbow is back, thanks to this famous internet librarian.: After a 20 year hiatus, Reading Rainbow, the former PBS tentpole, is headed back to the airwaves. A reboot of the literacy loving children’s television show is coming to a (small) screen near… #BookNews #BookstoresandLibraries
Five Takeaways from the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne Papers: In 1955 Joan Didion was an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, when she received a letter from her father that must have shaken the 20-year-old to her core. “Something has… #Biography #BookstoresandLibraries
Five Takeaways from the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne Papers
In 1955 Joan Didion was an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, when she received a letter from her father that must have shaken the 20-year-old to her core. “Something has developed beyond our control, which makes me believe I won’t be around much longer,” Frank Reese Didion wrote to his oldest child. “This […]
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April 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Five Takeaways from the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne Papers: In 1955 Joan Didion was an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, when she received a letter from her father that must have shaken the 20-year-old to her core. “Something has… #Biography #BookstoresandLibraries
The Trump Administration just fired America’s top librarian.: Photo from the Library of Congress In their continued campaign to trample institutions and eject expertise from government, the Trump Administration abruptly fired Librarian of Congress Carla… #BookstoresandLibraries #NewsandCulture
The Trump Administration just fired America’s top librarian.
Photo from the Library of Congress In their continued campaign to trample institutions and eject expertise from government, the Trump Administration abruptly fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden yesterday. Dr. Hayden was the first woman and the first African American to serve as the country’s top librarian, and was fired with a gallingly short email: […]
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May 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The Trump Administration just fired America’s top librarian.: Photo from the Library of Congress In their continued campaign to trample institutions and eject expertise from government, the Trump Administration abruptly fired Librarian of Congress Carla… #BookstoresandLibraries #NewsandCulture
Inside China’s New Wave of Conceptually Innovative Bookstores: Prior to 2020, the city of Hong Kong had over one hundred bookstores, including several major chains. But the national security law passed on the heels of large demonstrations and the COVID-19 pandemic… #BookstoresandLibraries #Features
Inside China’s New Wave of Conceptually Innovative Bookstores
Prior to 2020, the city of Hong Kong had over one hundred bookstores, including several major chains. But the national security law passed on the heels of large demonstrations and the COVID-19 pandemic got the better of most booksellers. The same phenomenon hit the city-state of Singapore, where the book trade has distinctly declined despite […]
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October 6, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Inside China’s New Wave of Conceptually Innovative Bookstores: Prior to 2020, the city of Hong Kong had over one hundred bookstores, including several major chains. But the national security law passed on the heels of large demonstrations and the COVID-19 pandemic… #BookstoresandLibraries #Features
From the Ashes to the Dustbin: The Making and Un-Making of a Personal Library: Illustration by Aurélie Bernard Wortsman The floor is stacked with heaps of papers, drafts of abandoned manuscripts, works in progress, old love letters that outlived the involvement.… #BookstoresandLibraries #Features
From the Ashes to the Dustbin: The Making and Un-Making of a Personal Library
Illustration by Aurélie Bernard Wortsman The floor is stacked with heaps of papers, drafts of abandoned manuscripts, works in progress, old love letters that outlived the involvement. The walls are covered with the bracketed bookshelves my brother put up when I first moved in. I myself fetched the wooden planks from a now boarded-up lumber yard […]
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July 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
From the Ashes to the Dustbin: The Making and Un-Making of a Personal Library: Illustration by Aurélie Bernard Wortsman The floor is stacked with heaps of papers, drafts of abandoned manuscripts, works in progress, old love letters that outlived the involvement.… #BookstoresandLibraries #Features
Arthur Sze is the new U.S. Poet Laureate.: The Library of Congress just announced that Arthur Sze will be the nation’s 25th Poet Laureate for 2025-2026. He will take over the position on October 9th from the previous Laureate Ada Limón, who served for two,… #BookNews #BookstoresandLibraries
Arthur Sze is the new U.S. Poet Laureate.
The Library of Congress just announced that Arthur Sze will be the nation’s 25th Poet Laureate for 2025-2026. He will take over the position on October 9th from the previous Laureate Ada Limón, who served for two, two-year terms. Sze is a poet, translator, and editor, and the author of twelve books of poetry. He […]
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September 25, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Arthur Sze is the new U.S. Poet Laureate.: The Library of Congress just announced that Arthur Sze will be the nation’s 25th Poet Laureate for 2025-2026. He will take over the position on October 9th from the previous Laureate Ada Limón, who served for two,… #BookNews #BookstoresandLibraries
Two San Francisco bookstores are taking Harry Potter off the shelves.: This week, a scrappy San Francisco bookstore announced that they’ll be removing a certain seven book fantasy series set at a dangerous boarding school from their shelves indefinitely. The… #BookNews #BookstoresandLibraries
Two San Francisco bookstores are taking Harry Potter off the shelves.
This week, a scrappy San Francisco bookstore announced that they’ll be removing a certain seven book fantasy series set at a dangerous boarding school from their shelves indefinitely. The decision is motivated by the author’s hateful politics. Booksellers at Booksmith, an indie founded in 1976, explained the choice in a statement on the store’s blog. […]
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July 3, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Two San Francisco bookstores are taking Harry Potter off the shelves.: This week, a scrappy San Francisco bookstore announced that they’ll be removing a certain seven book fantasy series set at a dangerous boarding school from their shelves indefinitely. The… #BookNews #BookstoresandLibraries
A Refuge for the Soul: How to Build a Library, According to Montaigne: 1. Think about Yourself Modern French intellectual culture has two… https://lithub.com/a... #BookstoresandLibraries #Features
December 17, 2024 at 7:04 PM
A Refuge for the Soul: How to Build a Library, According to Montaigne: 1. Think about Yourself Modern French intellectual culture has two… https://lithub.com/a... #BookstoresandLibraries #Features
Something Good in the World: Let’s Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day This Weekend: I was going to write something else for today’s column, something complain-y but righteous that would allow me to get some stuff off my chest and maybe even get some rage clicks.… #BookstoresandLibraries #Features
Something Good in the World: Let’s Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day This Weekend
I was going to write something else for today’s column, something complain-y but righteous that would allow me to get some stuff off my chest and maybe even get some rage clicks. Shit is bad. But I’m so tired. Maybe you are too. So why don’t we celebrate something nice that’s coming up instead, just […]
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April 26, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Something Good in the World: Let’s Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day This Weekend: I was going to write something else for today’s column, something complain-y but righteous that would allow me to get some stuff off my chest and maybe even get some rage clicks.… #BookstoresandLibraries #Features
Monica Macansantos on Finding Her Voice and Reuniting with Her Father Through Used Books: When I was growing up in the Philippines, our small resort town had none of the gleaming bookstores I’d later encounter as a graduate student in America, whose tall… #BookstoresandLibraries #CraftandAdvice
Monica Macansantos on Finding Her Voice and Reuniting with Her Father Through Used Books
When I was growing up in the Philippines, our small resort town had none of the gleaming bookstores I’d later encounter as a graduate student in America, whose tall shelves containing crisp new releases made me feel inadequate and unlearned. The bookstores I knew were hole-in-the-wall shops tucked inside narrow alleyways of my hometown’s public […]
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May 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Monica Macansantos on Finding Her Voice and Reuniting with Her Father Through Used Books: When I was growing up in the Philippines, our small resort town had none of the gleaming bookstores I’d later encounter as a graduate student in America, whose tall… #BookstoresandLibraries #CraftandAdvice
Libraries are reeling after a major distributor shutdown.: This Thursday brings bad news for book lovers. Baker & Taylor, one of the largest distributors for print library books in America, is closing down—and throwing the distribution pipeline into (at least)… #BookNews #BookstoresandLibraries
Libraries are reeling after a major distributor shutdown.
This Thursday brings bad news for book lovers. Baker & Taylor, one of the largest distributors for print library books in America, is closing down—and throwing the distribution pipeline into (at least) short term chaos as a result. As 404Media
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November 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Libraries are reeling after a major distributor shutdown.: This Thursday brings bad news for book lovers. Baker & Taylor, one of the largest distributors for print library books in America, is closing down—and throwing the distribution pipeline into (at least)… #BookNews #BookstoresandLibraries
Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.: Starting next Wednesday, February 26th, Amazon isn’t… https://lithub.com/n... #BookstoresandLibraries #NewsandCulture
February 23, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.: Starting next Wednesday, February 26th, Amazon isn’t… https://lithub.com/n... #BookstoresandLibraries #NewsandCulture
In Praise of Librarians in Dangerous Times: Librarians are on the front lines of history and current events, when news and change arrive at a furious clip that only quickens every day. And without libraries, my work would simply not exist. I was a child who read #BookNews #BookstoresandLibraries
In Praise of Librarians in Dangerous Times
Librarians are on the front lines of history and current events, when news and change arrive at a furious clip that only quickens every day. And without libraries, my work would simply not exist. I was a child who read
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November 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
In Praise of Librarians in Dangerous Times: Librarians are on the front lines of history and current events, when news and change arrive at a furious clip that only quickens every day. And without libraries, my work would simply not exist. I was a child who read #BookNews #BookstoresandLibraries
Joseph Earl Thomas wins The Center for Fiction’s 2024 First Novel Prize.: Joseph Earl Thomas won this year’s Center for Fiction First… https://lithub.com/j... #BookNews #BookstoresandLibraries
December 28, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Joseph Earl Thomas wins The Center for Fiction’s 2024 First Novel Prize.: Joseph Earl Thomas won this year’s Center for Fiction First… https://lithub.com/j... #BookNews #BookstoresandLibraries