I work for Nicole Sullivan but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of her agenda and her worst inclinations. Nicole is facing a test to her bookstore ownership unlike any faced by a modern bookseller. It’s not …
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A Pair of Recipes to close out Black History Month, Cooked by our own Catherine Olah
We have our bar manager and cooking extraordinaire, Catherine here sharing us two recipes for black history month. These recipes can be found in Adrian Miller’s Soulfood and Michelle Obama’s American Grown. Catherine’s had a lot of fun experimenting with, cooking …
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A BookBar Holiday, and a Thank You
It’s rare that the entire BookBar staff is together in one place outside of a staff meeting. In fact, our Christmas decorating night may be the closest we come to it outside of the yearly staff party. There’s a pretty …
Scary Stories for the Spooky Season
This time of year always revives the same old questions: When’s it gonna snow? What are you gonna be for Halloween? Will anyone remember to vote when presidential candidates aren’t on the ballot? Will Halloween finally fall on Friday the 13th …
BANNED: Why We Keep Whining About Banned Books Year After Year
There’s an awful lot of documentation on the history of banned books on the internet. Enough in fact, that one might insinuate talking about banned books is a lot more popular than actually banning books. I’ve learned over time however, …
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8-ish Reasons to Have Your Book Club at BookBar
Let’s just get one thing out of the way real quick–we’re not about to make a list blog, and only titled it as such to get clicks. We’d like to pretend that a person with an interest in a book-related …
Dogs (and cat) of BookBar!
Do you love dogs? Yes, you do. How about a cat? If not, focus on the dogs. Nearly every person on our staff has at least one pet and it’s time they had the spotlight for a change. Besides, we …
