Barbara Drake-Vera will celebrate the publication of Melted Away: A Memoir of Climate Change and Caregiving in Peru (LSU Press, March 2024) with three launch parties in spring 2024. After pub day on March 27, she’ll be doing a virtual launch with LSU Press. Then, on April 10th, she’ll have an in-store reading and book… Read more »
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- Books & Books, in Coral Gables, is one of my favorite bookstores. I used to sell books there (in the original storefront) in the 1990s, and in the early 2000s I wrote their monthly newsletter. I remember reading Henry Miller’s “Tropic of Cancer” in the front window of the Books & Books location during Banned Books Weeks. Owner Mitchell Kaplan’s commitment to freedom of expression has never wavered. Credit: Books & Books
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- I used to lose myself in the stacks of the Strand Bookstore, in lower Manhattan, when I lived in the East Village in my 20s. If someone would like to throw me a post-reading party in the Strand’s atmospheric Rare Books Room, I would not mind at all. Credit: Booksbooks431
