the bookshop is dead, long live the bookshop

A review of Laurence Cossé’s “A Novel Bookstore.” So many books, so little time to read them, a complaint I used to hear daily when I worked in an independent bookstore in the 80′s in Vancouver (Duthie’s, now long gone). The number of titles a decent, small, bookshop can carry can be in the thousands. [...]

Crane’s “An Experiment in Misery”: Living in Urban Decay

by Aaron D. Sommers, University of New Hampshire pdf version: Crane The short story An Experiment in Misery is not more than ten pages long, yet the author, Stephen Crane, manages to successfully concentrate the thoughts, feelings and physical environment of an impoverished existence he felt many were doomed to live through. The harrowing tale, [...]

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