Writers Latitude
Writers Latitude
Joe Samuel Starnes
Goodbye to the World’s Greatest Bookstore
48 minutes Posted Aug 29, 2019 at 4:30 pm.
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My all-time favorite bookstore, Port Richmond Books—with an inventory of several hundred thousand used and rare books in an old movie house in Philadelphia—is closing this fall. I celebrate the store’s glorious 16 years in business with Greg Gillespie, founder and owner, and writer William Hastings. We also discuss the future of bookselling, the devastation of a digital culture in which rolling robots deliver books, and much else.