Strand Book Store

Phone:

(212) 473-1452

Type: Indie Bookstore

Website:

http://www.strandbooks.com

Founded in 1927 by Ben Bass, Strand Book Store was originally one of forty-eight bookstores on Book Row, which existed in the 1890s and ran from Union Square to Astor Place. Today the store houses more than 2.5 million used, new, and rare books and occupies 55,000 square feet of space.

Address: 828 Broadway

New York, NY 10003

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New York City

by T Cooper

City Guides

From newly established bookstores such as McNally Jackson Books in SoHo to long-time forums such as the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church on the Lower East Side, T Cooper, author, most recently, of The Beaufort Diaries, visits his favorite places to research, revise, and read in New York City.

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May/June 2013

Reagan Arthur, the new publisher of Little, Brown, discusses her new role and the health of the company she now leads through these uncertain times in publishing.

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Fiction writer Aaron Hamburger got more than he bargained for when he signed up for a class in food writing. Instead of simply learning about a new genre, he also learned some valuable lessons about the one he'd been practicing for years.

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