“Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: An indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay”
Amen.
The North West London Blues by Zadie Smith | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books.
Just wondering: Which fiction books, with roots firmly planted in protest, have provoked social change?
The mighty pen: Fiction as a form of protest | Melville House Books.
Why does Amazon now have customers do the search chores it used to do for them, and in innovative ways?
In Germany, fixed-price laws curtail the power of retail chains and help to sustain a vibrant literary culture.
Amazon got big fast, hastening the arrival of digital publishing. But how big is too big?