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Penn Book Center stays open: Indie bookstore won’t shut down as planned
Membership? Better marketing? The 57-year-old West Philly shop is exploring options.
Defying the Amazon onslaught, Philly publisher opens bookstore in Kensington
The Head & the Hand Books will be a place to "look at works that aren’t glowing back at you."
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Who wants to buy Penn Book Center? Owners are taking offers
The independent bookstore has been a West Philly mainstay for 57 years.
Students are ‘tearing down the walls’ to get to Fairmount’s new library
In a city with more than 200 public schools, just 40 of them have libraries.
Shakespeare & Co. bookstore and cafe is now open in Rittenhouse
It's the first location outside of NYC for the independent retailer.
Pennsylvania prisons terminating book donations amid ‘drug crisis’
The DOC says it’s enhancing its libraries to make up for the change.
This Philly Uber driver challenges people to ‘carpool karaoke’ and posts the results online
Eddie Doyle — aka "Driver Ed" on YouTube — drives to supplement his writing career.
‘Hamilton’ star Leslie Odom Jr. on his journey from North Broad to Broadway
The Philly native gets candid and contemplative in his debut book, "Failing Up."
‘We knew nothing about donuts’ and other stories in the new Federal Donuts book
Bluffing, missed turns, underwear-stashed cash and other key points in FedNuts' march to world domination.
Philly Free Library’s 10 top books right now
What the city is reading — and requesting — from local branches