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    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 ...

  • Column banner titled “Revenge of the Indie Bookstore” featuring a portrait of Vivek Shraya in the center, wearing a dark off-shoulder outfit with long wavy hair. The background includes illustrated bookshelves, stacks of books, and leafy designs in muted blue and beige tones, with the Open Book logo in the bottom right corner.
    Column banner titled “Revenge of the Indie Bookstore” featuring a portrait of Vivek Shraya in the center, wearing a dark off-shoulder outfit with long wavy hair. The background includes illustrated bookshelves, stacks of books, and leafy designs in muted blue and beige tones, with the Open Book logo in the bottom right corner.
    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 ...

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