Forced to close in China, a beloved bookstore finds a new home — in D.C.


Jifeng Bookstore’s journey from Shanghai to Dupont Circle spanned six years and seven thousand miles.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/09/04/chinese-bookstore-dc-jifeng-books/

 

‘The point is to exist’: W. Paul Coates on his decades running Black Classic Press

Coates has been named the winner of the National Book Foundation’s Literarian Award

https://apple.news/AaAF7tQmUSruwe-JasKBhzg

Last night I sort of wished it’d be raining the next morning, Friday morning, so I could just not go out with the sign. Even though I know that’s what I’m supposed to do. It wasn't raining in the morning. I got up as usual, knowing it’d be a very un-populated Chambers Street and maybe no one expected I’d be there. I reminded myself, as I often do, that I was lucky to have this ‘mission’. I went. Saw a few smiling, appreciative faces. Lucky me. Seriously. Lucky me. 

 

 The beautiful chaos of Jason Reynolds’s bookshelves

The celebrated author of “Ghost,” “Long Way Down” and other titles for young readers walks us through his eclectic collection of books and literary artifacts.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/interactive/2024/jason-reynolds-book-tour-home/

What the Deliberate Targeting of Libraries Reveals About the Nature of War

Priscilla Morris on the Burning Books and Besieged City That Inspired Her Novel

https://lithub.com/what-the-deliberate-targeting-of-libraries-reveals-about-the-nature-of-war/

 

Native American author Tommy Orange selected as the next Future Library writer

The Pulitzer prize-shortlisted novelist behind books including There There and Wandering Stars will pen a manuscript that won’t be published until 2114

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/aug/12/native-american-author-tommy-orange-selected-as-the-next-future-library-writer

 Letter from a Region in My Mind 

‘Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.’  —James Baldwin

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/11/17/letter-from-a-region-in-my-mind