How can you even know what the world is until you’ve got those stories in you?
A patron of Innovations in Reading Prize winner Street Books, discussing Lord of the Flies, 1984, and The Grapes of Wrath.
Books designed to get commuters reading.
Our summer literary travels with #NBAward-honored books continue with a visit to Italy, the locale for 1961 #NBAward Finalist A Light in the Piazza. Elizabeth Spencer’s novella of a mother and daughter’s fateful journey to Florence was later adapted into a Tony Award-winning musical.
Via The Great Escape, 12 far-flung novels from #NBAward honored authors.
FIRST PAGE, FIRST LINE of @MollyAntopol’s short-story collection, The UnAmericans, LONGLISTED for the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction. #NBAwards #literaure #shortstories #books #booktastic #bookstagram #reading #readdeep @wwnorton
#NBAward Finalist All the Light We Cannot See is now #1 on New York Times’ list of best-selling fiction. Congratulations Anthony Doerr and @ScribnerBooks!! #books #reading #literature
Shameless use of #cat to promote the 2014 #NBAwards LONGLIST for fiction. Finalist announcement October 15! #cats #books #catsagram #bookstagram #cookstagram? #batsagram? #catswhoread #reading #fiction #literature #MEOW! #readdeep
Principally, I don’t understand people outside; people in books are sensible and reasonable, but outside there is no predicting what they will do.
While the situation is better today than it was several years ago, public school libraries still do not have enough books, especially those that are current and compelling for kids.
Carolyn Rodriguez, vice president, program, and administrative manager for City National Bank’s Reading is the Way Up, a 2013 Innovations in Reading Prize Winner.
On March 4, City National Bank awarded 80 Reading is the Way Up literacy grants totalling more than $86,000 to schools in California, Nevada, New York, Tennessee, and Georgia.
Lisa Lucas, our Executive Director, spoke with the New York Times about the Foundation’s mission, her commitment to get more people reading (including genre fiction!), and her favorite bookstores around the country.
We’re going to pass McDonald’s by Thanksgiving. There’s going to be more Little Free Libraries than McDonald’s, which is great.
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Barnes and Nobles is gonna start serving food and alcohol.
Everybody’s cracking jokes about how it’s a desperate attempt to stay relevant in the age of Amazon.
But you know what? Props to them. This is exactly what Blockbuster didn’t do. At no point was Blockbuster like “Hey, movie rentals aren’t the lucrative enterprise they once were. Perhaps it’s time we become known for our cheesy garlic bread.”
that’s a fantastic plan, honestly? i would 100% go sit at a bookshop, buy a glass of wine, and pick up the newest biography. 50/50 i’d decide to buy it after a couple chapters, and even if i don’t, that’s still money i spent at B&N!
They could host book clubs with food and drinks where one of the employees shares their experiences with a book of their choice and tries to convince the guests to buy it.
Barnes and noble realizing the only reason people go to brick and mortar stores is for the experience and access to an enjoyable physical space they can socialize in (sure isnt for the price) and capitalizing on that is a stroke of genius and a really refreshing approach to the dilemma of competing with online stores
