Bookstores

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Books, Bookstores, Garbage

In the vast sorting machinery that is New York City, The Strand's dollar rack is one of the exhaust vents, a place where excess information is discarded.

by Nelson Harst

Manhattan — The Strand dollar racks on the corner of Broadway and 12th Street is simply one of my favorite places in the world. In the sorting machinery of New York City, the dollar rack is one of the exhaust vents, a place where excess information is discarded. I sort through the racks often. Much of what ends up there is a sort of anonymous garbage, books that came and went with no notice from the world at...

Books, Bookstores, travel writing

The motionless trip

by Philippe Castelneau

Montpellier — Sometimes, books are the shortest path from one point of the globe to another. This here is a picture of some travel writings books, taken in the bookstore I work in. (I must add, Nicolas Bouvier is ...

Paris, Books, Bookstores

A place where one can feel like an English speaker in Paris…or almost that.

by Eduardo Kolberg

Paris — Old bookstores always intrigued me. I begin to wonder about the stories that happened there in the past, and not just the ones that was written in the books, but the ones where people are involved in....

Bookstores

The last bookstore

by Hiroko Ogawa

Los angeles — Visiting local bookstores on a trip is one of my favorites. It’s like a treasure hunting. We visited the last booksore in downtown L.A. It was not a kind of shops I like but it exited me in aother rea...

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