In the middle of the night, as the roaring fire consumed his business, all Don Blyly could do was go home. He couldn't bear to watch it burn. "There goes 46 years of work," he thought. Uncle Hugo's ...

After George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on May 25, 2020, five days of violence across the Twin Cities followed, impacting a number of indie bookstores but none more ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Don Blyly watched his twin bookstores, Uncle Hugo's and ...

There is happy news about bookstores, here on the eve of Independent Bookstore Day. Milkweed Books, the charming, thoughtfully curated store on the ground floor of the Open Book building in downtown ...

Even as civil unrest radiates outward from Minneapolis, where George Floyd was killed by a police officer one week ago, the Twin Cities bookselling community continues to struggle to surmount this ...

One of the most remarkable and memorable experiences of my teenage years in the mid-1960s occurred when my uncle started a project that was to involve a year’s long commute from his home in New ...