Bookshops : a reader's history /

"Jorge Carrión collects bookshops: from Gotham Book Mart and the Strand Bookstore in New York City to City Lights Bookshop and Green Apple Books in San Francisco and all the bright spots in between (Prairie Lights, Tattered Cover, and countless others). In this thought-provoking, vivid, and ent...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Carrión, Jorge, 1976- (Author)
Other Authors:	Bush, Peter R., 1946- (Translator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Language Notes:	Translated from the Spanish.
Published:	Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, [2017]
Series:	Biblioasis international translation series ; no. 21.
Subjects:	Bookstores. Books and reading. Booksellers and bookselling. Authors > Books and reading. Librairies. Livres et lecture. Librairie. Écrivains > Livres et lecture. bookselling. LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading. LITERARY CRITICISM > Subjects & Themes. TRAVEL > Essays & Travelogues.

Table of Contents:

Introduction inspired by a Stefan Zweig short story
Always a journey
Athens: a possible beginning
The oldest bookshops in the world
Shakespeare and companies
Bookshops fated to be political
An oriental bookshop
America (I): "coast to coast"
America (II): from north to south
Paris without its myths
Book chains
Books and bookshops at the end of the world
The show must go on
Everyday bookshops
Epilogue: Virtual bookshops.