“Latest statistics reveal that in 2007 the “indies” made a remarkable comeback. According to annual figures from the Booksellers Association (BA), the decline in the number of independent booksellers was halted last year after numbers had plunged in 2006, when indies were closing at a rate of almost two a week. Yet 81 new independent bookshops opened in 2007, more than making up for the 72 which closed the same year.”
Tag: 01.21.08
What’s Worth Seeing On Broadway? This Season, The Plays
“Over the past decade and more there have been times on my visits to Broadway when there wasn’t a single drama it seemed imperative to see. The musical appeared ubiquitous and omnipotent. So far this season, however, it is the big musicals that have disappointed, and the plays that have been winning the plaudits.”