Why We Can’t Resist a Great Bookstore

The Book Review by The New York Times

Aug 21, 202600:26:03Arts

We visit a local New York City bookstore, dive into The Times’s new bookstore crawl series, and recommend some of our favorite books about bookstores and booksellers.

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