The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century

ByEben J Muse

Sep 28, 2023 #bookselling, #bookstore, #indies

Froday, 27 October 2023, 2:00 pm UK time (9:00am EST)
Join Zoom Meeting: https://bangor-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95601723330 Meeting ID: 956 0172 3330

Join us for a conversation with Josh Cook as he discusses his new book, The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century.

Josh Cook is a bookseller and co-owner at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has worked since 2004. He is also author of the critically acclaimed postmodern detective novel An Exaggerated Murder and his fiction, criticism, and poetry have appeared in numerous leading literary publications. He grew up in Lewiston, Maine and lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Josh Cook and the cover of his new book, The Art of Libromancy

By Eben J Muse

Dr Eben J. Muse is a Reader in Bookselling at the School of Arts, Culture(s) and Language at Bangor University. He has been Co-Director of Stephen Colclough Centre for the History and Culture of the Book since 2016. He was raised in a bookstore in Massachusetts which he now owns, and he conducts research into the business and culture of bookstores. He is currently editing the Books & Bookselling strand of the Cambridge Elements Series Publishing and Book Culture and co-director of the Bookselling Research Network.