For the Love of Bookstores . . . in Books!

"The books of our childhood offer a vivid door to our own pasts, and not necessarily for the stories we read there, but for the memories of where we were and who we were when we were reading them; to remember a book is to remember the child who read that book."

The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee is both a memoir and a historical treatise on the evolution of bookstores and the bookseller trade. It is also a celebration of the intricacies of books and bookstores. "Standing in the middle of this confluence, I can't help but feel the possibility of the universe unfolding a little, once upon a time."