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Founded in 2022 by Kierra Underwood, our mobile independent bookstore specializes in Black literature, bringing a carefully curated selection of works by Black authors directly to the community.
Left Bank Books currently presents 250 author events a year. Hosted authors have included U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, feminist writer and activist Gloria Steinem, humorist David Sedaris, poet Allen Ginsberg, author Toni Morrison, chef Rick Bayless, poet Anne Lamott, poet William Gass, sci-fi author Ann Leckie, graphic artist ...
Center for the Book Affiliates carry out the national Center’s mission, sponsor programs that highlight their area’s local literary heritage and call attention to the importance of books, reading, libraries and literacy. Today there are affiliate centers in all 50 states, American Samoa, the District of Columbia, Guam, Northern Marianas ...
As of April 2021, the bookstore is now run as a worker coop. [21] The bookstore's landlord began the process of evicting the bookstore in October 2023. [22] Bluestockings offers free Narcan kits, and trainings to use them; the bookstore's landlord attributed the attempt to the "unauthorized use of the premises as a medical facility". [22]
Leigh was impressed enough with Laurila's knowledge of LGBT literature and business acumen that in 1978 he suggested they look at opening a specialty bookstore in the U.S. Several cities were considered - Atlanta, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles but Laurila quickly narrowed it down to Los Angeles as the best bet for a new startup.
Frenchmen Art and Books [24] [25] Previously Faubourg Marigny Art and Books 1978 [26] Chicago, Illinois: Women & Children First: 1979 [27] Unabridged Bookstore: 1980 [28] [29] San Francisco, California: Fabulosa Books Dog Eared Books until 2021 [30] [31] 1992 [32] Seattle, Washington Charlie's Queer Books 2023 [33] Asheville, Carolina del Norte ...
[citation needed] The law and literature movement focuses on connections between law and literature. This field has roots in two developments in the intellectual history of law—first, the growing doubt about whether law in isolation is a source of value and meaning, or whether it must be plugged into a large cultural or philosophical or social-science context to give it value and meaning ...
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore is a 2012 novel by American writer Robin Sloan. It was chosen as one of the best 100 books of 2012 by the San Francisco Chronicle , [ 1 ] was a New York Times Editor's Choice, [ 2 ] and was on the New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best Seller list [ 3 ] as well as the NPR Hardcover Fiction Bestseller List. [ 4 ]