A collaboration between MaryKate, Rebekah, Cory, and Shawn. Your in-flight entertainment was staring over the pages of your unread novel as parents tried to wrangle their children. You’re pretty sure your knees are bruised from the overzealous reclining of the...
Laurence Roth | Apr 16, 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
In Sunwise Turn: A Human Comedy of Bookselling, Madge Jenison reflects on the development of her modernized bookstore in the early twentieth century, noting, "The only way we get at other human beings is through ideas, and where ideas are current something unlocks...
Laurence Roth | Feb 20, 2015