Yale undergrad Max Graham — son of Politics & Prose owners Bradley Graham and Lissa Muscatine — files a thoughtful, well-researched and clear-eyed piece about the continuing challenges for independent bookstores in Yale’s The Politic. The article builds on some of what was reported out of Winter Institute, as booksellers face the pressures of rising rents and wages (and we all deal with the profound realization that many of these treasured workers are making minimum wage), and turn more to non-book product. (This is when we remind you that ABA membership numbers, which include chains like Hudson Booksellers and Half-Price Books and […]
