Judith Rosen at the Harvard Bookstore

Harvard Book Store welcomes Judith Rosen—long-time bookselling editor and New England correspondent for Publishers Weekly—for a discussion of her new book Bookstore Romance: Love Speaks Volumes, a love letter to the special relationships people build with and within their local bookstores as well as with each other! She will be joined in conversation by Jeff Mayersohn—co-owner of Harvard Book Store, who wrote the foreword to Rosen’s Bookstore Romance. 

About Bookstore Romance

Stories and photographs of bookstore engagements and weddings that celebrate literature and love.

What is the most romantic place to get engaged?  A bookstore, of course. The perfect wedding venue? A bookstore! Book-loving couples from all over America agree, and Bookstore Romance celebrates not only a couple’s love for each other, but also their love of books and bookstores.

Bookselling journalist Judith Rosen interviewed twenty-four couples who tell their stories about how they planned and celebrated their engagements and weddings in independent bookstores. And of course, these perfect occasions could not have been orchestrated without the help of willing booksellers who slipped rings into books, made special displays of handmade volumes, and hid behind bookshelves to snap photos.

These heart-warming stories, and inspirational photographs collected in this charming book will make a perfect gift for the book-lover in your life.

A portion of the proceeds from this book will be donation to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation.