Here is my annual Public Service Announcement: Today is Independent Bookstore Day in the United States, assuming you are reading this on the day it comes out.  It’s a nationwide party for book lovers.  Here in Chicago, local independent bookstores are once again hosting their bookstore crawl in celebration.  I’m lucky enough to have three…

In the United States, the last Saturday of April is Independent Bookstore Day—a nationwide party for book lovers. (Here in Chicago, the independent bookstores host a bookstore crawl, which is far more dangerous than a pub crawl as far as I’m concerned.) For the past few years, I’ve run a blog post the day the…