Bryant Simon, author of Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks, discusses the “Coffee Party” movement and argues for a return to the coffeehouse as a place for civic debate …
Read More >Over the past couple of years, you may have noticed that there aren’t quite as many Starbucks around as there used to be. Hit by compound financial and identity crises, Starbucks closed …
Read More >Starbucks took hold so quickly and opened stores in so many places so fast that we learned to characterize a place as with Starbucks or without it—as part of the stream of …
Read More >We are pleased to announce that Episode 21 of the UC Press podcast series is now available. In this episode, Chris Gondek of Heron and Crane Productions interviews Bryant Simon as he …
Read More >When Starbucks first started out, a $4 coffee was virtually unheard of. However, as Bryant Simon observes in Everything but the Coffee and on his Red Room blog, $4 at Starbucks went …
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