Bookseller Shaun Bythell can be famously curmudgeonly about his customers. But while reflecting on his shop’s second lockdown, he’s discovered something surprising. The owner of The Bookshop, the largest second-hand bookshop in... Read More

Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Margaret Cahill’s memoir, Under Cover of Darkness: How I Blogged My Way Through Mantle Cell Lymphoma (O Books). We are offering this as part of our special focus this month on cancer. Talk about... Read More

My father died of cancer at 53. My mother barely survived breast cancer at 45. And like a dutiful son, I caught the cancer bug last year at 53—stage 4 throat cancer—it’s a family thing. Lots and lots of families. One hundred years... Read More

White supremacists march near the library in Charlottesville, Virginia. Photo courtesy of the Southern Poverty Law Center. John Halliday, director of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library (JMRL), is not sure how to get racists away from... Read More

Hate speech is a special kind of evil. It doesn’t commit acts of violence, but it’s a vital part of inciting the anger leading to violence. Just in the past century, Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and select others provided... Read More

An independent publisher with an appellation as uplifting as Wings Press just sings ascent. But looking over the catalog of the San Antonio-based house—a list that includes such literary luminaries as Lorna Dee Cervantes, Rosemary... Read More

Flannery Crump of Aurora Public Library presents her findings on Little Free Libraries in June at the American Library Assocation's Annual Conference in Chicago. They’re cute, they’re tiny, they’re full of free books. Little Free... Read More

If you search “how to sell more books” on Google, there are only about 75,300,000 results. It’s one of the most commonly asked questions in the publishing industry, and chances are it’s something you’ve asked yourself a time or... Read More