The untold story of California’s most iconic outdoor bookshop, Bart’s Books. 

https://www.latimes.com/travel/story/2023-07-27/barts-books-outdoor-bookstore-ojai-history

 

Booksellers, including Valerie Koehler of Blue Willow Bookshop in Houston, said that the new Texas law requiring them to rate books’ sexual content is unconstitutional, and practically impossible to implement. Credit...Shane Lavalette for The New York Times

Booksellers Move to the Front Lines of the Fight Against Book Bans in Texas

With a book-rating law set to take effect in September, a group of booksellers, along with publishers and authors, filed suit to argue that it is unconstitutional.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/25/books/book-banning-texas-lawsuit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare