Port Richmond school gets a library after years of planning, and students are reading up a storm
Donations are helping Liguori Academy fill up the shelves.
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About 1 in 7 Philly neighborhood libraries can’t fully open each day, on top of already reduced hours
Advocates — and the new Free Library director — say the solution lies with increased funding for staff.
Black history through memories at Brewerytown’s Bailey Street Books
Professor Anyabwile Love wants the community to share in his collection of rare Black literature.
We need YOU
Billy Penn needs to raise $23k by June 30 to break even on our budget. Can you chip in to get us to the finish line?
We need YOU
Billy Penn needs to raise $23k by June 30 to break even on our budget. Can you chip in to get us to the finish line?
We need YOU
Billy Penn needs to raise $23k by June 30 to break even on our budget. Will you chip in to get us to the finish line?
We need YOU
Billy Penn needs to raise $23k by June 30 to break even on our budget. Can you chip in to get us to the finish line?
We need YOU
Billy Penn needs to raise $23k by June 30 to break even on our budget. Can you chip in to get us to the finish line?
Indie bookstore The Head and The Hand is expanding to a new, bigger location on Frankford Avenue
The nonprofit publisher first opened in Kensington three years ago.
Joseph Fox Bookshop in Center City closing after 70 years, as neighborhood bookstores press on
The Sansom Street store was a mainstay of the local literary scene.
How Giovanni’s Room reinvented itself to succeed as the oldest gay bookstore in the country
The shop has been an LGBTQ haven for nearly 50 years.
Novelista puertorriqueño radicado en Filadelfia gana beca nacional
Francisco Font Acevedo es uno de los veinte escritores puertorriqueños, tanto en Puerto Rico como en la diáspora estadounidense, que recibió la beca inaugural Letras Boricuas de $25,000.
Philly-based Puerto Rican novelist wins national fellowship
Francisco Font Acevedo is one of 20 writers awarded the inaugural $25,000 Letras Boricuas award.
Users upset as costs force Free Library to drop free movie streaming service
Kanopy and Hoopla funds will be redirected to physical branches.
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.
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.