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New Worker-Owner: Esmé
Last month our co-op celebrated a new owner! Esmé joined our team in late 2019 to coordinate offsite sales and school book fairs, and then didn't bail on us even...
On Our Continued Closure
Many people seem surprised by our extended, unbroken closure of almost ten months. With the recent surge in COVID-19 cases and attention on local conflict between small business management and workers, we wanted to share a little bit about that decision.
2020 Bestsellers & Collective Picks
A lot of ink has already been spilled over the unique character of 2020, a year that defied all of our expectations to deliver the best and the worst plot twists of our...
Indies First Sale
On Saturday, November 28th Indies First brings together authors, readers, and publishers in support of independent bookstores. This year it's also the gateway into a...
F#@k Amazon
We've been delighting over the fantastical window art created by Austen Mikulka to promote our online sales. From the baby gorgon to Medusa's pet pup, Julius the Cerberus, taking a giant nap beside tiny Julius the Store Dog.
Holiday Shipping Schedule
With COVID-19 surging and the USPS at the center of a partisan conflict, bookstores are expecting shortages and delays. Please plan to buy gifts as early as possible to avoid disappointments!
It Really Does Start Earlier Every Year
We know that it is waaay too soon to begin talking about the holidays but we want friends to know that our co-op is expecting some unique challenges this year. No, we're...
Books for Asheville Youth
Our friends at Word on the Street / La Voz de les Jovenes are building a library of radical books by BIPOC authors for their youth participants! They've requested that...
God is Change
Fourteen years after her passing, Octavia Butler appeared this week for the first time on the NYT Best Seller list. This much deserved recognition is for her 1993 novel, "Parable of the Sower."
We Are All Very Anxious
Although in the national discourse the Postal Service and Facebook represent an opposing binary of state control and private enterprise, they have a lot in common. And right now, we're seeing both weaponized against the Left.
The Abolitionist Moment
We've been having a lot of conversations both online and IRL about abolitionism. While we're generally skeptical of one-size-fits-all reading lists, we have found ourselves...
Readings Against Racism
Since the uprising in Minneapolis started, we've been getting nonstop calls and emails from folks wanting to read books on Blackness, anti-racism, and policing. Many of these books are now unavailable from publishers who are scrambling to reprint them.