Bookshops

Jorge Carrión

MacLehose Press

"Bookshops is the best kind of biblio-mystery, in which a cultivated and civilized detective guides us through the labyrinth of the world's stores, stopping to talk for a while, before plunging off on the next fascinating diversion. Jorge Carri n brings page-turning excitement to the extended essay form." (Iain Sinclair)Jorge Carri n collects bookshops: from Gotham Book Mart and the Strand Bookstore in New York City to City Lights Bookshop and Green Apple Books in San Francisco and all the bright spots in between (Prairie Lights, Tattered Cover, and countless others). In this thought-provoking, vivid and entertaining essay, Carri n meditates on the importance of the bookshop as a cultural and intellectual space. Filled with anecdotes from the histories of some of the famous (and not-so-famous) shops he visits on his travels, thoughtful considerations of challenges faced by bookstores, and fascinating digressions on their political and social impact, Bookshops is both a manifesto and a love letter to these spaces that transform readers' lives. Carri n is a writer and literary critic. His published works include essays, novellas, novels and travel writing, and his articles have appeared in National Geographic and Lonely Planet Magazine.

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

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Cual es el significado de las librerias en el imaginario colectivo? Cual es su papel en la historia de las ideas y de las letras? En este brillante y ameno ensayo, Jorge Carrion crea una posible cronologia del desarrollo de las librerias y de su representacion artistica. Como se transformaron en mitos culturales, en centros de tertulia o en atalayas de resistencia politica. La Strand de Nueva York, las parisinas Shakespeare and Company y La Hune, la Librairie des Colonnes de Tanger, Bertrand y Ler Devagar en Lisboa, Stanfords en Londres, El Virrey en Lima, Lello en Oporto, La Central y Laie en Barcelona, la Libreria de Avila y Eterna Cadencia de Buenos Aires, Antonio Machado en Madrid, City Lights y Green Apple Books en San Francisco, las librerias del Fondo de Cultura Economica en Ciudad de Mexico o Bogota… Esas y muchisimas otras librerias supervivientes desfilan en estas paginas, junto con otras que fueron emblematicas y luego desaparecieron. Un mundo fascinante, pero tambien crepuscular, cuya topografia compartimos todos los amantes de los libros. Finalista 41.º Premio Anagrama de Ensayo. / What is the significance of bookshops in the collective imagination? In this brilliant and accessible essay, Jorge Carrion creates a possible chronology of the development of books. How do they become cultural myths, centers of intellectual conversation, or fortresses of political resistance?

Librerias (Spanish Edition)

Genre Fiction

Anagrama

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