Posts tagged bookstores
Iris Blasi
Mostly books. And some other stuff.
The story behind that ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ poster (and what a British used bookshop has to do with it)
(Source: youtube.com)
Bookstores are a place where people go not just to find a new book or an old book, but to have a fundamental conversation with themselves about who they are and who they aspire to be.
—Jim Mustich ‘77, Editor-in-Chief of the Barnes & Noble Review, in the Princeton Alumni Weekly’s “The New Tastemakers”
Why America Needs Its Indies
“Culture, at a least a compelling one, develops when people are collectively engaged with a whole range of books, authors, artists, musicians, television shows, theater, magazines, etc. We would not consider an artistically robust culture to be one where everyone had been exposed to Matisse and Dali but no one else. The same is true of a literary culture: to have a good one, it is vital that a whole lot of people are reading, being exposed to, picking up, talking about, considering, engaging with, and blogging on a whole lot of books. In other words, more is more. In fact, more is critical.”
—Rachel Meier, writing in The Christian Science Monitor
People have to understand that their short-term decision to save a couple bucks undermines their long-term interest in their community and vital, real-life literary culture.
Featured on the New Yorker’s Dec 5, 2011 cover? A largely book-free bookstore.
