I love visiting independent bookstores. I’m a regular at my local store, and visit new ones every opportunity I get. One of the (many) reasons I was so excited about ... Read more

Saturday is the fifth annual Independent Bookstore Day, a national event celebrating bookstores and the readers who frequent them. I’m looking forward to spending Independent Bookstore Day at Tulsa’s Magic ... Read more

A reader friend recently quipped that she wished someone would make her a punch card—like one of those frequent shopper cards, you know?—for all the independent bookstores she visits on her ... Read more

My family and I are just back from a quick trip to New York City. Manhattan, really—we were only briefly in Brooklyn and didn’t visit any of the other boroughs ... Read more

As you may have seen on Instagram, my family and I finally made it to Parnassus Books, a thriving independent bookstore in Nashville. (For the full story on the bookstore, ... Read more