Contra Amazon
- 180 pages
- 7 hours of reading
Jorge Carrión Book order
This Spanish author, linked by critics to the Afterpop movement, is also a literary critic. His diverse body of work spans novels, essays, and travel literature, reflecting a deep engagement with contemporary literature, creative writing, and the genre of travel writing. He shares his expertise through teaching at a university and a writing school, contributing cultural criticism and reportage to prominent media outlets, and has been featured in literary anthologies across multiple countries.
- 2023
- 2020
Against Amazon
- 280 pages
- 10 hours of reading
A history of bookshops, an autobiography of a reader, a travelogue, a love letter-and, most urgently, a manifesto.
- 2016
Bookshops
- 240 pages
- 9 hours of reading
"Jorge Carrión collects bookshops: from Gotham Book Mart and the Strand Bookstore in New York City to City Lights Bookshop and Green Apple Books in San Francisco and all the bright spots in between (Prairie Lights, Tattered Cover, and countless others). In this thought-provoking, vivid, and entertaining essay, Carrión meditates on the importance of the bookshop as a cultural and intellectual space. Filled with anecdotes from the histories of some of the famous (and not-so-famous) shops he visits on his travels, thoughtful considerations of challenges faced by bookstores, and fascinating digressions on their political and social impact, Bookshops is both a manifesto and a love letter to these spaces that transform readers' lives."--
