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Jul 20, 2022 · Casey Cep writes about Richard and Lisa Howorth, the owners of Square Books, a bookstore in Oxford, Mississippi, that has gained wide renown for nurturing generations of Southern writers and...
Feb 26, 2023 · Deep in their midst is Richard Howorth, the store’s indefatigable co-owner: chatting and laughing with a group of 20-somethings visiting from Jackson, helping an older customer track down an obscure title, restocking the shelves, and greeting customers old and new.
Jul 22, 2022 · In a long, informative, entertaining profile entitled "Letter from the South: The Bookseller Who Helped Transform Oxford, Mississippi," the New Yorker tells the story of Richard Howorth (and a lot about his wife, Lisa), the owners of Square Books in Oxford, Miss.
Because owner Richard Howorth is also the mayor of Oxford. He and his wife, Lisa, started the business in 1979, in a small, second-floor location with no street visibility. (Their daughter...
Nov 28, 2023 · Square co-founder Richard Howorth, whose family had lived in Oxford for generations, first contemplated building a bookstore with his brothers as they watched tourists streaming in and out of William Faulkner’s house across the street growing up (Faulkner had died a year before his parents moved in).
Richard and Lisa Howorth had worked two years in self-apprenticeship at the Savile Bookshop in Washington, D.C., before returning to Richard's home to open their own store in the space they had renovated with the help of family and friends.
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The store's founder, Richard Howorth, often has remarked that much of the store's support from the community has been based on its ambition to overcome the stigma placed upon Ole Miss and Oxford after riots broke out on the campus when James Meredith desegregated the University in 1962.
