This is the latest in Lacey N. Dunham’s Bookseller I’d Like to F***. To go to the column page, please click here. MYTH 1: Booksellers Spend All Day Reading The quiet bookshop nestled on a tree-lined side street. Inside, the bookseller is perched at the register, an open book propped on her knee. Ah, wouldn’t […]

This is the latest in Lacey N. Dunham’s Bookseller I’d Like to F***. To go to the column page, please click here. The worst problem about working in a bookstore—the problem that ranks far and above the low pay, standing on one’s feet all day, and dealing with the general public—are the books. Being a […]

This is the latest in Lacey N. Dunham’s Bookseller I’d Like to F***. To go to the column page, please click here. Call it the Borders effect. Ever since the news of Borders’ closing was announced, it seems I’ve been fielding a single customer question: “Are youclosing?” The answer is no. Most customers are relieved. One […]

This is the latest in Lacey N. Dunham’s Bookseller I’d Like to F***. To go to the column page, please click here. As a nine-year-old book nerd in the Midwest, I spent much of my time reading and writing letters to fake pen pals. I achieved normalcy only on Saturdays when I crouched in my […]

This is the latest in Lacey N. Dunham’s Bookseller I’d Like to F***. To go to the column page, please click here. As a bookseller at an independent bookstore in the hyper-networked, super Type A city of Washington, DC, I usually receive zombie stares when I tell strangers where I work, as if they’d like […]