When Square Books began, it was a small store, which stocked mainly literature on Mississippi and the South. Richard Howorth and his wife Lisa struggled against the odds to open the bookstore at the very beginning. The Mississippi Creative Economy noted, “This...
Laurence Roth | Feb 24, 2016
Square Books is a bookstore located in the heart of the south, Oxford, Mississippi. The store opened in the September of 1979, founded by both Richard and Lisa Howorth, as a privately owned bookstore. Oxford is the town that houses the University of...
Laurence Roth | Feb 8, 2016
The thing about Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi, with its population of almost 22,000 people, is that there are three stores; Square Books, Off Square Books, and Square Books, Jr.. "Wouldn’t that make it “Triangle Books”?" You ask. Well, no. The locations of...
Laurence Roth | Feb 4, 2016