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  • Your Community, Your Bookstore
    Your Community, Your Bookstore
    June 02, 2020

    Your Community, Your Bookstore

    During the COVID–19 pandemic, independent bookstores across the country remain open, serving their communities by providing phone and online ordering, safe pickup or delivery, or safe browsing where ...

  • Comic: What Did Ben McNally Do When He Wasn't Selling Books?
    Comic: What Did Ben McNally Do When He Wasn't Selling Books?
    June 27, 2016

    Comic: What Did Ben McNally Do When He Wasn't Selling Books?

    I must have met Ben McNally weeks after moving to Canada. The details are a little fuzzy on when that was. It might have been at Harbourfront for IFOA, or maybe at Nicholas Hoare, where he was selling ...

  • Revenge of the Indie Bookstore
    Revenge of the Indie Bookstore
    June 17, 2016

    Revenge of the Indie Bookstore

    In 2014, when I began booking my Crushes and Mountains US book tour with fellow Toronto-based writer Elisha Lim, I Googled “gay bookstore” or “independent bookstore” in cities we were planning ...

  • Sellers & Newel: A New Place for Second-Hand and Antiquarian Books
    Sellers & Newel: A New Place for Second-Hand and Antiquarian Books
    March 05, 2012

    Sellers & Newel: A New Place for Second-Hand and Antiquarian Books

    In the heart of Toronto’s Little Italy is a small second-hand bookstore with big dreams.Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books opened its doors in November 2011 at 672 College Street, and while the store ...

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