In Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, nestled on North Market Street, sits a bookstore that’s been serving its community for 44 years. In its display windows, used books surround electric candles, inviting passersby… read more →
On a dreary Wednesday afternoon, I walk into DJ Ernst Used and Rare Bookstore. The owner–affectionately known as Homer–greets me from the check-out desk three quarters into the small, one-room… read more →
The way into Mondragon is sketchy. There’s no way around that, and even the owner, Sarajane, admitted as much with a laugh. Nothing about the low-rent building’s rundown front and… read more →
When I first walked through the door of Mondragon Books, I didn’t know where to begin. I wasn’t looking for anything in particular, but even if I had been, I… read more →
While the number of independent bookstores is on the decline, one that still remains today on Market Street is DJ Ernst Books. The bookstore was first established on February 1st,… read more →
As someone who isn’t a huge book reader, I sure do love them, and the flashyness of BAM! Really caught my eye. The bright colors as you enter the store… read more →
Walking down Lewisburg’s Market Street, I felt oddly as if I’d stepped into a book: someplace more characterful, alive, and poignantly imperfect than most of standardized America these days. The… read more →
Established in 1978, the Susquehanna Valley Mall, located in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, offers over 50 stores and services to areas within a 45-mile radius. Located on along the side of the… read more →
Unpacking the Bookstore: Objects in Space It is impossible, when looking at a diagram of the inside of Square Books, to not be reminded of a very specific format of… read more →
The sun is shining, and a calm breeze blows past me as I stand within Courthouse square, located in Oxford, Mississippi. My eyes glance from the Lafayette Courthouse, to… read more →
If you had taken a stroll through the Politics and Prose bookstore in 1999 and again today, you would naturally see aspects of change present in the bookstore. Carla Cohen,… read more →
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… read more →
As I meander virtually up North Clark Street in the Andersonville neighborhood of Chicago, courtesy of Google Street View, I recognize few of the businesses surrounding the feminist bookstore Women… read more →
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While other bookstores might “define” literature in a certain way, putting labels on books that place one genre above another, hiding certain genres in back corners and others in prominent… read more →
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… read more →
Though there are countless signs hanging from the ceilings, posters on the pillars, and notes from previous readers hanging on the shelves, perhaps the most important piece of advice a… read more →
Frequently, my parents find me staring at a wall, object, or some nondescript point in the distance. Noticing the expression on my face, they ask what I’m thinking about, and… read more →
Since its humble beginnings, Mile High Comics has developed into the leader of the comic book industry, to which it boasts the largest collection of comic books in the world.… read more →
Like any good bookstore, The Strand offers plenty of books in a variety of interests reflective of the customers it has. In such a diverse city where people take interest… read more →
Not only is Powell’s City of Books like a city unto itself in size and reputation, they make each customer feel as if they belong to the Powell’s book family,… read more →
Not many businesses can say that they’ve managed to stay in the family for five generations, be continually in business for over 120 years, suffer three location changes and are… read more →
Powell’s Powerful Past on Dipity. Close your eyes and imagine the story of the classic underdog. What do you see? Do you see a scrawny, disadvantaged loser without a change,… read more →
Since the dawn of time humans have always had a fascination with predicting the future. We’ve employed a plethora of techniques, some more credible than others, in our quest of… read more →
Imagine six blocks of New York City lined with a grand total of 48 bookstores. Begun early as 1890, Book Row was the bookseller and the book buyers paradise. The… read more →
While Mile High Comics is now one of the leading powerhouses of the comic book industry today, it wasn’t always that way. In fact, the business started out as nothing… read more →
The Strand Bookstore on Dipity. Since it was founded in 1927, The Strand has had a track history of survival and does not seem to be going anywhere anytime… read more →
Taking over half a city block and with over three and half floors and two point five million books in the store (in addition to another quarter million books in… read more →
There are countless stores and restaurants in the section of Manhattan known as Midtown. It is possibly the most trafficked part of the city, offering visitors such sights as Times… read more →
The Strand Bookstore, with its unmistakable red awning, has its main location at 828 Broadway (& 12th Street) in New York City. Nestled in between the borders of Manhattan’s Greenwich Village and East Village (the territory which the store’s location favors) the… read more →