Bookstores Posts
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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 …
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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.
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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: …
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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 …
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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 …
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"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 …
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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 …