The Spine Bookshop’s YouTube Channel will show, "The Spotlight on Censorship Marathon," for 24 hours starting at 6 a.m. Jan.

One great delight of bookstore work is seeing new cover designs. The mind boggles at the responsibilities those few square inches carry. And there’s so much to admire when they succeed: Look at how ...

The illustrated book Bibliophile: Diverse Spines (Chronicle Books), released November 2, by authors Jamise Harper and Jane Mount is a compendium of diverse books, authors, bookstores and the broader ...

The Spine Bookshop owner Lindsay Schultz seeks to offer banned books to the public through both customer sales and donations to readers. The books include ones written by local authors, independently ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Looking for an ...

Did you know that April is National Poetry Month? The celebration was created by the Academy of American Poets in 1996 as a way to increase awareness and appreciation of poetry in the United States.

Why might anyone wonder? Maybe because Meininger had arranged her books backward, with the spines facing the wall. The minimalist look has caught on in certain design circles. By turning books around, ...

When the printing press made its debut in Europe in the 15th century, hand-written manuscripts went the way of eight track tapes and CD players—becoming unfashionable in the face of new technology. So ...

There are many sensible ways to organize your books. You can alphabetize them by author. You can divide them by genre. You can group all the paperbacks together. You can reserve a shelf for ...

One of the most brutally hilarious sections in “Spine” is his long account of another injury he experienced. While helping his girlfriend move he tumbles down a staircase, suffering a spiral fracture ...