All posts tagged: Independent Bookshops

Nothing is as before

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Yiyun Li’s memoir of loss is difficult, challenging, and honest. I found this treasure at Washington’s JF Books.

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Jane Bertch’s engaging memoir and Bold Fork Books—a match made for food lovers everywhere.

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Laila Lalami’s debut novel takes us into the hopes and fears of modern Morocco with subtlety and grace.

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Less news, more books: A mid-year report.

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Annie Ernaux has produced “a deceptively simple book and a profoundly disarming one.”

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Beverly Cleary and Politics & Prose: Two classics!

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A photo essay celebrating the 2026 DC Independent Bookstore Crawl.

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Thomas W. Gilbert’s newest book examines the life and mysterious death of baseball’s first hero.

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April 25th: A day to make a big dent in my quest to visit all 29 DC-area independent bookshops!

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In the third of the Maigret series, Georges Simenon writes of a crime where everything seems false.