Leslie’s Reviews > The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore > Status Update

This is my bedtime book. Something soothing. They always take longer to finish, because I fall asleep while listening. So far, the biggest news to me is that, at one time, the Marshall Fields State Street store had the largest bookshop in America on their third floor. Kroch’s (1907) and Brentano’s (1880’s) merged and survived until the 199O’s. I spent hours browsing there whenever I took the El downtown.