Weekend reads: Week of June 6, 2026

Here's a collection of literary posts that we didn't share on our reader blog this past week but thought were worth highlighting.

• From her bookstore in Nashville, Ann Patchett drives the literary conversation (The Associated Press)

• Take a virtual tour of author-owned bookstores across the US (The Associated Press)

• The surprising revival of independent bookstores (The Associated Press)

• Is there an L in both? (Oxford University Press)

• Richard Pryor's daughter studies the N-word — a word he used, then disavowed (NPR)

• A kid's book newly published in English has a long backstory in the Soviet Union (NPR)