history prof. and author: THE BOOKSHOP (https://xitter.cf/t.co/4KKqFBHRfh), ON BICYCLES, and THE CYCLING CITY

Joined April 2015
📚 In Oxford on 21 May (5:30–6:30pm, GMT+1): @MichaelRobb4 in conversation with @EvanFriss on Book Makers and Booksellers at Blackwell's Bookshop. A fascinating look at how books are made, sold and sustained. 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/michael-r… @TheHistoryPress @blackwelloxford
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Bookstores have always been more than a place to buy books. They’ve been hubs of ideas, conversation, and community. 📚 In this episode, historian Evan Friss joins us to explore the surprising history of America’s bookstores, from the colonial era to today.
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@EvanFriss Just finished reading 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱 and loved its wit and insight. Here's a photo of the book with Slovenia's still-wintry Julian Alps in the background--and a bookstore cat in the nearby historic town of Radovljica:
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EVAN FRISS fans, please join us as he talks about writing THE BOOKSHOP: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN BOOKSTORE in an upcoming episode promo on ABOUT THE AUTHORS TV @EvanFriss youtu.be/qYHdT2bM2go
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'The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore' by Evan Friss presents a history of bookstores, their significance in our culture, and the risk faced with the threat of their extinction. #BookOfTheDay: on.nypl.org/3PSp8rH
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Congratulations to our authors included in @TIME's 100 BEST BOOKS of 2024 list! 🎉✨: bit.ly/41NtSGC 👉 THE BRIGHT SWORD by @leverus 👉 HEADSHOT by @RitaBullwinkel 👉 SOLDIERS AND KINGS by @jason_p_deleon 👉 GET THE PICTURE by @bbosker 👉 THE BOOKSHOP by @EvanFriss
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Here, @EvanFriss, like booksellers before him, sold me on the fascinating history of bookselling, from humble beginnings to book wagons and sidewalk hawkers to indies and chains, ups and downs, the avant garde and radical. Bookselling is a microcosm of America and a lovely story.
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Wowzers!
The readers have spoken! THE BOOKSHOP by @EvanFriss is the winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for History & Biography! 🎉✨📣 ⁣ Start reading this "heartfelt, essential love letter to the literary sanctuary of bookstores" (@people) now 👉 bit.ly/3xSb7oV
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Our Literary Thursdays series continues with @EvanFriss, the author of "The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore." Join us on December 5 at 6PM! queenslibrary.org/calendar/l…
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Many thanks!
#HolidayBookGuide: The best-selling “The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore” by alumnus @evanfriss explores the rich history of American bookstores and their cultural impact in an account of the people and events that have shaped bookselling gc.cuny.edu/news/books-gradu…
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Searching for a meaningful holiday gift? Discover books that inform, entertain, and inspire, authored by Graduate Center scholars gc.cuny.edu/news/books-gradu… @evanfriss @theliuniverse @sethalow @somarinez1 @danicasavonick @att_daisy #BlackFriday #Books
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I have no idea what this says but it looks good.
L’historien @EvanFriss met en lumière la disparition progressive des librairies aux États-Unis, où leur nombre a décliné de 34 % entre 2012 et 2021 ☛ books.fr/la-fin-de-la-librai… #libraire #librairie #metierdulivre #bookshop
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It was such an honor!
So happy with last night's event with @EvanFriss! It’s always so fun to take a trip down memory lane and remember the bookstores that helped to pave the way for bookshops as we know them now. Here's to many more years of bookstore culture!
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JMU history professor and @nytimes best-selling author Evan Friss, combined his passion for history and reading to create a nonfiction work detailing the history of American bookstores.
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What an honor to make this list! Thanks.
Our list of the 100 must-read books of 2024 is here! Gripping novels and short stories, eye-opening histories, moving memoirs, and more. These are the books that entertained and enlightened us ti.me/4eJuqA9
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See you this Thursday, November 14, for a riveting discussion on all things bookstores past, present, and future with @EvanFriss!
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Join us!
Please join me and professor @EvanFriss on November 14 as we discuss his most recent book THE BOOKSHOP: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN BOOKSTORE. I would love to see you all there! Get tickets at strandbooks.com/events
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The most magical place on earth: the bookstore! Join us on November 14 to hear professor Evan Friss discuss his latest book THE BOOKSHOP: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN BOOKSTORE with our very own @nancybasswyden -- a must see for all book-thusiasts! 🎟️ buff.ly/3NTiLn6
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