What Good Are Bookstores?
Thursday, July 7, 2011, 7:00 - 8:00 PM
Lobby Space
Free with museum Admission
Matthew Stadler , writer and co-founder of Portland-based Publication Studio, looks under the hood of literature’s future by asking “what good are bookstores?” If writers and readers can connect directly, if publishers can reach readers online or through digital applications, what good are high-rent, dedicated retail spaces for the healthy future and economy of literature? Stadler sees enormous value and use for such spaces, but in a drastically changed configuration, one that argues for smaller, more idiosyncratic shops and against the old model of the large, comprehensive bookstore.
Publication Studio is an experiment in sustainable publication and a laboratory for publication in its fullest sense — not just the production of books, but the production of a public. Publication Studio was founded and is run by Matthew Stadler, formerly the literary editor of Nest Magazine and co-founder of Clear Cut Press, and Patricia No.
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