"Jorge Carri?n collects bookshops: from Gotham Book Mart and the Strand Bookstore in New York City to City Lights Bookshop and Green Apple Books in San Francisco and all the bright spots in between (Prairie Lights, Tattered Cover, and countless others). In this thought-provoking, vivid, and entertaining essay, Carri?n meditates on the importance of the bookshop as a cultural and intellectual space. Filled with anecdotes from the histories of some...