Independent Bookstore Day 2022 – Island Outliers
Despite my love for filling up passports and my obsession with completeness, I’ve never tried to “win” Independent Bookstore Day for two reasons. First, getting...
My First Independent Bookstore Day
Bookstores might be my Tiffany’s. This look back at the haul from my very first Independent Bookstore Day reveals the severity of my tsundoku problem....
Open Books
For years, I drove past Open Books, Seattle’s only poem emporium. I read some poetry, but I didn’t think I read enough poetry to bother...
Seattle Independent Bookstore Day 2018
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. As shopping holidays go, I’ll take the springtime cluster of independent brick and mortar celebrations over Christmas...
Independent Bookstore Day
Some people think I’m awful because I never remember birthdays, and holidays like Mother’s Day register more as minor annoyances than celebrations. But I’m not...