VILLAGE VOICE -- A mom-and-pop bookstore full of new English-language books, with an accommodating English-speaking staff (6, rue Princesse; Sixth Arrondissement).
IMAGINE if Texas lawmakers, in a bid to protect mom-and-pop bookstores, barred Amazon.com from shipping into the state.
Then Daily Show executive producer Ben Karlin told USA Today: "We were hoping to be banned by a lot of mom-and-pop bookstores, but they keep selling the book".
If you're looking to stock up on art books, head to the DAVID ZWIRNER art gallery for its third annual pop-up bookstore.
The inaugural New York Food Book Fair takes place Friday through Sunday at the Wythe Hotel, 80 Wythe Avenue Northh 12th Street), in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, with weekend of panel discussions, book signings, dinners and a pop-up bookstore.
DAVID ZWIRNER, the blue-chip gallery with three locations in Chelsea, is opening a pop-up bookstore next week, from Aug. 9 to 13, that will feature rare and out-of-print books and new artist catalogs.
The heart of the festival is a pop-up bookstore at the City Reliquary, a vest-pocket museum where some of Miller's manuscripts, letters, watercolors and first editions will be on display (and where his books, as well as posters and relevant films, will be on sale) for the full run of the series.
Pop-up bookstores are an international phenomenon, from New York to Chicago to Honolulu to London to Berlin -- and now one has come to Pittsburgh and it's the biggest one ever.
Following are edited excerpts from nytimes.com: Upper Manhattan -- 155th Street up to the tip -- is exploding with the arts, from readings of plays in progress to arts exhibits, from a pop-up community bookstore to the Uptown Arts Stroll, from Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance to the Shabazz Center.
MUSEUM VISIT I might go browse the Metropolitan Museum bookstore or pop in and see a special exhibit or whatever gallery I'm in the mood for.
Amazon also now operates its own brick-and-mortar locations beyond Whole Foods, including its cashierless Amazon Go stores, its bookstores, pop-ups and its newer 4-star stores.
