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Amarie Gipson is the founder of The Reading Room, an independent reference library with more than 700 books devoted to Black ...

Despite doomsayer predictions, brick-and-mortar bookstores’ demise hasn’t come. In fact, local bookstores—and revived big-brand chains—are luring customers in with new incentives, merch, and ...

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A wave of new — and, often, younger — owners have helped the community dramatically expand, intensify and diversify.

The poem reveals the mind-numbing conditions and physically exhausting jobs that were relentlessly inflicted on prisoners in ...

Read 2 Succeed (R2S), a local independent literacy nonprofit in Asheville supporting children 0–5, elementary students, ...

Nicole Krauss is a novelist and a 2025 Guggenheim fellow. This op-ed is adapted from a speech the author gave on May 13 while ...

Unlike in Georgia, the “science of reading” has met resistance in other states ... Please see our republishing guidelines for use of any other photos and graphics. The Missouri Independent is a ...

“Reading should never be a chore,” he says ... For more information about how you can participate on Independent Bookstore Day on April 26, visit the American Booksellers Association.

signaling hope for the resurgence of independent bookstores. When reading a digital book or ordering online, McNeil said, you miss out on the sense of community that local bookstores offer.

Speaking in a debate with MPs Reading West's Labour MP Olivia Bailey ... this government's football governance bill establishing an independent football regulator." The bill would establish ...