As our man on the skateboard-publishing beat, it is my unfortunate duty today to report some sad news from one of the raddest corners of the publishing world: Jake Phelps, editor of Thrasher… Read more »

Way back in September we wrote about what looked like the end of the line for San Francisco’s beloved Aardvark Books. To quote myself, the situation was this: As a result… Read more »

A blogger rarely looks forward to issuing a retraction. To have mis-thought, mis-quoted, or mis-typed is a humbling experience I would not wish on my worst enemy. In this case,… Read more »

These are restless times for revolutionary bookstores. Last week we wrote about In Other Words—the feminist bookstore and community space portrayed as Women and Women First in Portlandia—discontinuing its relationship with that… Read more »

Lawrence Van De Carr, owner of Chicago’s Bootleggers Books was recently making one of his many pilgrimages to the San Francisco Bay area, hoping to unload some of the rare… Read more »

“Crooks himself never tweeted. He never retweeted. But he had developed his own, impassioned way of favoriting.” As Alexis Madrigal tells it, the first heard about Koons Crooks, he immediately wondered… Read more »

Following a journey halfway around the world, two rare books—whose content remains mostly unknown—have been returned to their home in Italy. Steve Rubenstein and Kevin Fagan report for the San Francisco… Read more »

Marcus Books in San Francisco is an institution. The oldest Black bookstore in the nation, the store, in San Francisco’s Fillmore District, has been in existence for over fifty years.… Read more »

Gearing up for San Francisco’s Pride weekend, independent bookstore Books, Inc. hosted an event the previous Saturday to broaden local kids’ horizons as well as offer them a fun storytime.… Read more »

As we sit on our hands and wait for Volume Two of the University of California Press’ edition of Mark Twain’s autobiography to issue forth, with heft and hilarity, Robert… Read more »