The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

by Evan Friss

Thankfully, the beer was not supposed to taste like bookstore.

As one Howard University student remembered, “You could walk into Drum & Spear Bookstore, which many people did from right off the street, and you could read yourself into an international consciousness.”

“Books, puppies, french fries,” Patchett told me, became “inextricably linked.”