Sharktooth PressWe use the best indie bookstores tag on a Sharktooth Press post when we are writing about our favorite bookshops around the world. Recent posts have featured Books & Books, a south Florida brand with a long history of excellence in curating books to feature for its audience. Here’s how our editorial director, Saxon Henry, remembers her experiences in the best indie bookstores in Miami: Whether it was a hot and humid South Florida summer day or a balmy winter one, life at the edge of the ocean on Miami Beach was filled with rituals. Though I imagine by now you are thinking I’m leading you to the shoreline where sunbathers are sprawled on the sand for an afternoon of reading, I’m actually directing you along Lincoln Road, known for its fanciful art deco embellishments. What awaited there was an artisanal pizza at an al fresco table and a jaunt during which I would spend at least an hour browsing Books & Books.
The wide array of subjects, which are broad enough to keep a book lover sated for days on end, housed within each of this bookseller’s locations included local authors, regional authors, and books that encompass national and international issues. I’ve made my living by doing some form of writing for over three decades so bookstores are important to me—for research and for developing strategy in developing new projects. I felt fortunate to live close enough to the Lincoln Road location of Books & Books that I could walk there, which I did at least one day a week after lunchtime.
We’ve also featured Libreria Studium, publisher JoAnn Locktov’s favorite.
Continuing our “Sites We Like” series today, we share with our readers the incredible Bookshop.org, an online portal that financially supports local, independent bookstores. Not only can you shop the shelves on the site, you can easily become an affiliate and build your own bookshop from your favorite titles. I have created my own bookshop […]
As we continue our series on browsing our favorite indie bookstores here on the Sharktooth Press blog, we’ll be reaching out to lovers of books we know to share with us their picks (if you have a bookstore you’d like to dish about, please let us know), and Gerard and Saxon, Sharktooth’s co-founders, will be […]
We introduced you to publisher JoAnn Locktov in this post about her thinking when she was strategizing publishing her book Dream of Venice in Black and White. Today, she is sharing with Sharktooth Press readers her thoughts on her favorite indie bookstore Libreria Studium, the first in our series of avid readers across the globe sharing […]