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BookStack Directory: Part 2

B is for Book Industry Professionals

May 11, 2024
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In case you missed it, a description of this project and Part 1, “A is for Authors” who write Substacks where they regularly recommend, review or critique books other than there own, is here:

BookStack Directory: Part 1

BookStack Directory: Part 1

Abra McAndrew
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April 29, 2024
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The second post in the series features 12 newsletters created by people who earn their living by bringing books written by others into our lives. They’re editors or publishers, booksellers and librarians, with a few professional reviewers and translators in the mix.

Here we go, alphabetically by newsletter title.

  1. I hope

    Rosalynn Tyo
    won’t mind if I compare her
    All By Our Shelves
    newsletter to Championship Vinyl, the record store in High Fidelity. Rosalynn works at her neighborhood used bookstore and writes about her shifts there as well as what she’s reading and life as a solo mom/freelance writer.

    All By Our Shelves
    You and me, baby, ain't nothin' but mammals
    Something I completely failed to consider, even though I knew I was moving east, was that the sun sets a little earlier here, about half an hour earlier than it does back in Waterloo. Today it is projected to set at 4:28pm, and it’s mid-November. I know most people are able to just get on with it, and live their lives a…
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    2 years ago · 6 likes · 2 comments · Rosalynn Tyo
    All By Our Shelves
    a bookish solo mom learns how to run a used bookstore, one shift at a time.
    By Rosalynn Tyo
  2. Book Post
    , founded by
    Ann Kjellberg
    who worked for three decades on the editorial staff at the New York Review of Books and staffed by a cadre of authors who offer weekly-ish Diaries with thoughts on their reading experiences and occasional posts from An…

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