A native Minnesotan and veteran of anti-war protests since 1968, our Lynn couldn't resist an invitation to speak at the No Tyrants demonstration in Amsterdam back in March. Read her words below, and make sure to check out the further reading recommended by Lynn at the bottom of this post! [...]
by Lynn Growing up in nearly all-white rural Minnesota, I didn’t know about the Holocaust until doing research for a paper on social resistance, age twenty. I could have known – Anne Frank’s diary was widely read by my 13-year old classmates but, being contrarian, I didn’t read it then. I [...]
by Lynn Minnesota madness: authors (and habits) from the prairie If you've been watching the courageous, caring people of Minnesota these past weeks, you might enjoy a peek into the local character, as evidenced by the writers from there. Not to forget Little House on the Prairie, Minnesota's character is still [...]
by Lynn After stalking the owners of a prototype Espresso Book Machine (EBM) for several years until a new version was launched for use in bookstores and libraries in 2008, I traveled to London and to Cambridge, MA to see how it worked and to make a business case for purchasing [...]
by Lynn As booksellers, we are sometimes asked by customers to add or withdraw certain titles from our assortment due to hot social or political issues. Our browsers have even been known to turn some books face-backwards (including those on Trump, Musk, the Middle East and Korea). Someone even recently suggested [...]
Celebrating the Turkey Capital of the World – in Tim Walz’ old congressional district ABC’s native Minnesotan Lynn talks turkey, politicians and where her love of reading comes from on the 85th anniversary of King Turkey Day! The first King Turkey Day on October 5, 1939. This photo was originally [...]
The ever-generous David and Kathryn Allen seeing the new book for the first time in our warehouse. by Lynn I remember business book buyer Hans Huisman walking past the shelves and pointing to a book titled Getting Things Done by David Allen and asking: “Who IS this guy? We’ve [...]
by Lynn I arrived in Amsterdam in 1972 with some history in the American women’s liberation movement, had even started an organization for equal pay back in the day, and sometimes collaborated with the gay liberation activists. But living my perception of a liberated life in a foreign culture was a [...]
by Lynn While going through boxes of old ABC papers, I recently ran across a book review ripped out of a 1989 edition of newspaper Het Parool. The reviewer, Johannes van Dam, saw The UnDutchables as a fresh take on Dutch life written by an American and British couple. [...]
by Lynn What are you giving thanks for this Thanksgiving? At ABC, we’re thankful for our community of booklovers, both customers and staff. I’m also thankful for the Iroquois Confederacy—the model for our democratic Constitution. We have celebrated Thanksgiving at our stores since 1989 as a way [...]
