California native, Lewis Buzbee, wrote a memoir titled The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, where he describes his first time in Printers Inc. Upon entry, he says it feels like a bookstore and shaped like a shoe-box, explaining, "One narrow end of the shoe-box opened into...
Laurence Roth | Mar 20, 2015
Most customers know what kind of store J. Levine Books and Judaica is from the moment they see the banner hanging outside, but if you happened to walk in not knowing it wouldn't take long for you to realize the truth. This store is Jewish to its very core. As you...
Laurence Roth | Mar 13, 2015
Five years ago, Michael Powell remarked to Poets & Writers Magazine that he wasn't a fan of the way that the big chain bookstores like Borders had designed their interiors; he said these stores were "too bright," with "shelves [. . .] so low [that] everybody's...
Laurence Roth | Mar 13, 2015