North End gets nation's first Italian-American bookstore

By adamg on Fri, 10/30/2015 - 10:17pm

NorthEndWaterfront.com reports on the opening of I Am Books on North Street, across from the Paul Revere House.

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Eccezionale

By BlackKat on Sat, 10/31/2015 - 3:54am.

I used to work out of there when it was a courier company's office.
I'm surprised there are not more foreign language bookstores in Boston. We have a French Library however.

Dante Alighieri Society, Somerville Museum, West End Museum

By theszak on Sat, 10/31/2015 - 7:12am.

Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts
http://www.dantemass.org/

Somerville Museum
http://www.somervillemuseum.org/

West End Museum
http://thewestendmuseum.org/history-of-the-west-end/immigrant-era/

Suprising (and hopeful) statistic

By FenRes on Sat, 10/31/2015 - 12:22pm.

From their Kickstarter page: "Since 2009, the number of independent bookstores in the United States has grown by 27 percent."

hmmm

By johnmcboston on Sat, 10/31/2015 - 1:37pm.

What's a bookstore? :)

Bouquinistes by the Gates to Harvard Yard

By theszak on Sat, 10/31/2015 - 4:41pm.

Occasional Bouquinistes outside the Gates to Harvard Yard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouquinistes

Bring back Borders bookstore

By VS on Sat, 10/31/2015 - 5:07pm.

Bring back Borders bookstore in Cambridge, MA, What a shame, I wish they were still there.