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
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 Powell’s City of Books customer may need doesn’t seem to be advertised: breathe....
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