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The Old Butcher’s Bookshop, Paris

On the longest street in Paris, at the edge of the Luxembourg Gardens, sits a unique little bookshop that’s often overlooked. While the famous Shakespeare & Co is chock-full with tourists everyday, outside Le Pont Traversé at 62 Rue de Vaugirard, the lone passerby is occasionally browsing the bookstand at leisure. So I thought I’d…

For Sale: The Brontë Sisters Café makes for a very Tempting Life Swap

I can picture myself now, leaned over the counter, reading my dog-eared copy of Wuthering Heights for the umpteenth time, waiting for one of my pies (voted best in the village) to finish baking to perfection in the oven. My only worries are whether I’ll have enough cakes ready for our Saturday morning book club or remembering to buy firewood…
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Three NYC Bookshops That Will Steal Your Heart

New York City has no shortage of vast bookstores where you can easily spend an hour peacefully browsing the endless shelves and genres, but what I’m looking for is a bookshop that makes my heart ache a little; one that makes me want to swap lives with the bookseller and live inside their world. So…

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Take a Brain Break with Errol Le Cain’s Fantasy Illustrations

Errol Le Cain is the perfect example of the magic that happens when cultures collide. Growing up in Singapore, India, and London, the British illustrator started inventing his fantasy worlds as early as early as age 11, weaving in elements of Moorish symmetry, Indonesian shadow puppets, and Baroque fantasy. Above all, he took the art…
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An Abandoned House of Books in Tunisia

I received a correspondence from Tunisia the other day, an urbex photographer from the capital city of Tunis who likes to shoot unknown and strange places in his hometown. His name is Mourad and he asked if I would be interested in an abandoned house of books he recently … okay– let’s just say he had me at “abandoned…

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The Grumpy Comic Book King of Queens, New York

“The kids can’t read anymore, they’re a bunch of morons, so what are you gonna do?” And that pretty much sums up the legend that is Joe Leisner, the no-bullsh*t owner of Comic Book Heaven, formerly located in Sunnyside, Queens NY. Let’s meet him…

15 Forgotten Things Found Inside Books

In a small town called Otega in the state of New York, there is an independent used bookshop with something very special about it. For decades, the owner of Popeks bookstore, which was passed onto Michael Popek from his father, has been collecting and cataloguing the unusual and forgotten things he finds inside the pages…

Stop Everything, Check out this Forgotten Library For Sale

You know those movies set in a small town, where a bunch of local kids discover a murder mystery, try to solve it, and end up at the public library, scrolling through newspaper clippings from 50 years ago on the old microfilm machines. That’s how I imagine this library… The old Carnegie Library of Elwood…

Ye Oldest Public Library in the English Speaking World

What is there to see in Manchester? Surely there must me more to the industrial city in northwest England than football? Alas, Manchester gave the world a surprising amount of excellent things. The first atom splitting was achieved at Manchester University in 1919 and the man credited as the father of modern day computer science, was a Mancunian…

Seriously Though, How Did the Most Beautiful Library in America Get Demolished?

The old  Public library of Cincinnati was the sort of place you only see in a Harry Potter film; colossal cast-iron book alcoves and spiral staircases that went several stories high, checker board marble floors that shone beneath the skylight roof; a magnificent maze of books that is now lost forever.  In 1955, without a whimper, the building was demolished when…
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