My latest Lit Hub column is up, and it’s all about the intersection of indie bookstores and political resistance.
I think for a long time now I’ve had some kind of sense that indie bookstores aren’t really like most other normal businesses, but it’s only been with the arrival of Donald Trump and the response by many indies in my community that I’ve been able to put these thoughts into coherent shape. It does say something that the one business I all but expected to see a strong and prolonged engagement from—and which has provided just that—was the indies in my community.
Anyway, some thoughts on all that over at the Hub.
