Is It Time to Ditch the Secondhand Bookstore?
I think the problem is that we’re afraid of dust. I don’t like what that dust represents: abandonment, antiquity, and irrelevance.
AUTHOR: Juliet Davidson
Happy Birthday, Vivian Gornick
On June 14th Vivian Gornick turned eighty-five. She is most renowned for her memoir ‘Fierce Attachments’, which was named the best memoir of the past fifty years by The New York Times.
The Booksellers Documentary Keep Collectors Hopeful
With the reemergence of independent bookstores and an ever-increasing nostalgia for the intimacy of physicality in a digital age, The Booksellers comes at an opportune time for any reader who puts their love for the paper-bound artifacts above all else. Directed by D.W. Young, this documentary focuses on the livelihoods and idiosyncrasies of New York’s finest antiquarian booksellers. They don’t sell what you can purchase online for two-day Prime shipping. These bibliophiles specialize in everything from leather-bound covers to hip-hop collections. Young booksellers are seeing an increasing diversification in content and in the sellers themselves. Not every participant in the …
The School-to-Prison Pipeline and Prison Literacy
Before discussing prison literacy programs, it is vital to understand literacy rates of those incarcerated and the systemic flaws in public education.
Embracing Menstruation in ‘Uncommon Women and Others’
Wasserstein’s decision to create Rita Altabel allows us to question the complex relationship we have with menstruation.