Owning or managing a bookstore involves more than a passion for books; it demands keen financial management, especially in the realm of payroll. Efficient payroll management is critical to maintaining a happy workforce and ensuring compliance with various tax and labor laws. In this blog post, we’ll explore key strategies and tips to help bookstore … Read more
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If you love reading, then, you would most likely have a bookcase or shelf at home. Want to know an ingenious way to add sophistication to your interior with such furniture? It’s simple: use a secret sliding door. The idea here is that the bookcase acts as a door, which slides to allow you to … Read more
An Interview with Esmé Weijun Wang You may be already familiar with Esmé Weijun Wang’s nonfiction. Her essays are powerful pieces that meld the science behind mental health issues with generous insight into her own personal experiences. Her essay “Perdition Days,” for instance, begins with this arresting sentence: “Let’s note that I write this while
Are you a passionate reader, and would like your kids to inherit the same passion? Well, love for literature develops in childhood, and you will surely fall in love with the world of the written word a second time if you decide to explore it together with your children. So, for a passionate reader, it’s … Read more
An Interview with Ross Posnock “It is not in the role of an artist to worry about life – to feel responsible for creating a better world. This is a very serious distraction. All your conditioning has been directed toward intellectual living. This is useless in artwork. All human knowledge is useless in artwork. Concepts
Asleep, She is a Horizon: On Simone Weil The truth about life is still obscure because we only read those vain and energetic enough to write. Even the secret diarists, your Pessoas and your Dickinsons, seem imbued with a kind of optimism about the truth of their pessimism, and their refusals to publish seem more
An Interview with Alison Kinney Everyone, Alison Kinney says, wears hoods. It’s the uniform of Zuckerberg and girls who visit their grandmothers in the woods, of basement bloggers and bad hair days, as familiar and cozy as a fairy tale — but hoods are also central of the stories of Trayvon Martin, Abu Ghraib, and
A Plea for Tenderness My friend T. says who cares if something lasts forever or not? The point is, it was. Plus if it’s a book — a website? — then sometimes it still is. For example, I read Anna Karenina in 2000, a full century-plus after its first publication, and the middle event alone
An Interview with Mary Rakow Mary Rakow is now an author of fiction, having moved into the art from theology. She has a Masters from Harvard Divinity School and a PhD from Boston College. This Is Why I Came is her second novel. In it, our oneiric guide Bernadette is returning to the Church for