Bookstores Posts
Some of the First Canadian Books of Poetry I Ever Bought
A recommended reading list by Madhur Anand (author of Parasitic Oscillations) who is appearing at the Winnipeg International Writers Festival's THIN AIR …
Bookshop Spotlight: Toronto's TYPE Books
Being named Magazines Canada's Retailer of the Year is only the latest success for this amazing indie bookshop.
Shelf Talkers for May 2014
Every hour of every day in bookstores across this fine land, booksellers are handing their fellow readers new books with the simple, trusted entreaty: …
Shelf Talkers for April 2014: A New Series by Robert J. Wiersema
Today—in the first installment of a new monthly series Robert J. Wiersema is doing for 49th Shelf, called Shelf Talkers—we've got five of this country’s …
Other People's Books: Guest Post by Tamas Dobozy
Bookstores are the distillation of a certain taste in reading, a canon of novels and poems and plays and essays peculiar to whoever runs the store, whatever …
"I’ll take the long road and a ballpoint any day": Guest Post by Anne Perdue
Going on a book tour is very different to writing fiction. It takes place in real time and you can’t rewrite what happens. You need to know exactly …
Kidsbooks' Owner Phyllis Simon on Matching Children Up With the Right Books
Visiting a good children’s bookstore, especially but not only when you have kids of your own, is an instant mood booster and occasion for awe. A combination …