New Edinburgh book shop focusing on women’s writing opens this summer
Heartening news from north of the border this week, as a new book shop opens in Edinburgh dedicated to women’s writing. As reported in Edinburgh News, Rare Bird Books will sell “books… Read more »
A(nother) UK bookshop has appealed to Twitter for help — but is it sustainable?
It’s becoming an increasingly common sight online: a beloved indie bookstore—this week it was Imagined Things in Harrogate, Yorkshire—reports a record-low day of takings and earnestly appeals for help from Twitter. The good people… Read more »
The anonymous Edinburgh Book Sculptor has given her first interview
Anonymous artists, in our panoptical information age, have become increasingly rare. While graffiti artists like Banksy or Rambo obscure their identities behind a sobriquet to avoid prosecution for vandalism, actual unknown and… Read more »
Other things to do with books
The veneration of books has always laid traps for the reckless and unwary, and it has frequently mutated into perversity. Many young lovers of books, for instance, have awakened to… Read more »