Next week's issue of the magazine features an update on the proxy fight for control of Barnes & Noble, and a look at two Los Angeles travel bookstores that are finding ways to keep the customers coming. There's a piece on controversial historian Michael Bellesiles, who is back this month with a new book—1877: America’s Year of Living Violently (New Press), his first since the scandal over his 2000 effort, Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture. In the retailing section, we talk to indie and university presses for their picks of the top 20 hand-sells for this fall. On the Soapbox page, there's an essay in praise of copyeditors.