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Books and community: How Blue Stoop is surviving — and even thriving — despite coronavirus
10 Philly authors will read about revolution in the literary collective's year-end fundraiser film.
Former Penn Book Center closes for good, coronavirus ends 60-year run in West Philly
The shop nearly shut down last year, before new owners stepped in.
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My Free Library: Why I love South Philly’s Charles Santore branch
An essay in recognition of National Library Week.
10 underrated Philly books to devour in the quarantine era
Buy them online to support local independent booksellers.
She was told not to open a Black-owned bookstore in Fishtown. She’s doing it anyway.
Harriet’s Bookshop is now welcoming customers to browse its woman-centric shelves.
Penn Book Center has a new name: People’s Books & Culture
The 57-year-old bookshop in West Philadelphia is thriving under new ownership.
How Toni Morrison inspired a Philly woman’s black bookstore on Instagram
Run out of a house in Germantown, Black Soul Vintage is a passion project.
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."
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.