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What Snoop Dogg’s Success Says About the Book Industry Will the shifts brought on by the pandemic, favoring online retailers over bookstores and established authors over new ones, change publishing forever? Publishers are worried about physical bookstores, a critical part of the literary ecosystem that was battered during the shutdown.Credit...Jeenah Moon for The New York Times April 18, 2021Updated 9:29 p.m. ET When bookstores across the United States closed last spring, Tyrrell Mahoney, the president of Chronicle Books, braced for disaster as she watched revenue plummet. Then, months i...

Welcome to Table Scraps, a monthly series on the growing problem of food-related waste and what some eateries, officials, farms, institutes, and everyday people are doing right. This isn’t a guilt trip, just a way to unpack initiatives attempting to reduce kitchen waste and food loss. We’re exploring backyard composting to city programs, restaurant tips to technology, and anything related to this global issue. Heat up those leftovers, and settle in. In my memory, it was around 2018 that people started talking about how plastic straws kill turtles (or something) and that the right thing t...

ABA Nominates New President, Board Candidates By Ed Nawotka | Jan 28, 2021 The American Booksellers Association’s board of directors approved the ABA Nominating Committee’s recommendations for changes to the board, all of which must be approved at the ABA membership meeting in May. Current ABA vice president Bradley Graham of Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C., has been nominated for a two-year term as president. Kelly Estep of Carmichael's Bookstore in Louisville, and Christine Onorati of Word Bookstores in Brooklyn and Jersey City, were selected as ABA co-vice...

Are We All ‘Domestic Terrorists’? Jared Taylor, American Renaissance, January 13, 2021 Joe Biden has the people who took over the Capitol on Jan. 6 figured out. In just two days, he had them pegged for “a bunch of thugs, insurrectionists, white supremacists, and anti-Semites, and it’s not enough.” Not enough? He also said they were “domestic terrorists.” Senators Charles Schumer and Lindsay Graham, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, “Squad” leader Cori Bush and plenty of others agreed that they were domestic terrorists. Even the mayor of Orlando says so, and DC mayor Muriel Bowser call...

Lynn Trimble Read More Two things are especially important for people who want to read more, according to Phoenix city librarian Rita Hamilton. “Read what you like to read, and all reading is good” she says. If finding time to read is a challenge, try to connect reading to an existing routine, like having your morning coffee or winding down after work. Keep reading materials with you all the time so you can read when you get unexpected moments. Changing Hands Bookstore buyer Michelle Malonzo has a few tips as well. Don’t be intimidated by books or feel badly if you’re a slow reader. I...