THEBookshops worth finding in person.
PLACES TO WANDER · ISSUE 001Map: Esri, TomTom, Garmin, FAO, NOAA, USGS, © OpenStreetMap contributors and GIS User Community. Selected streets and water; numbered points use the existing address matches. Use directions for your visit.
Browse the drawings. Open a shop for visiting details.
Ideas · Literature · Scholarship
The shelves make room for a chair At the Seminary Co-op, even the architecture seems to take browsing seriously Its scholarly selection is an invitation to follow a question past the first easy answer You don’t need a reading assignment
The shelves make room for a chair. Follow a question past the first easy answer.
5751 S Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
Used books · Unexpected company
The sign gets straight to it: used books, bought and sold. Myopic lets other readers’ choices become your next possibility. Look beyond the title you came for. The adjacent spine may be the more interesting introduction.
The adjacent spine was somebody else's decision. They may have known more.
1564 N Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, IL 60622
Fiction · Feminist writing · Children’s books
An unmistakable awning, and a selection with a point of view Women & Children First has championed underrepresented writers since 1979 Books, author events and reading groups make that commitment tangible
Come for a voice you know. Leave with one you haven't heard.
5233 N Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60640
Choose a book outside your work. Notice how it makes its case. Bring one useful question back with you.
Zines · Comics · Small press
A zine can be small enough to fit in a pocket and large enough to change your mind. Quimby’s gives independent publishing a proper shop window. If your work has started to look like everyone else’s, spend a little time with people making things their own way.
1854 W North Avenue, Chicago, IL 60622
The Corporate Artist: The Art of Working Beautifully is Morgan Sage Norman’s book about bringing your creative self to everyday work. It explores how the roles we play, the conversations we have and the decisions we make can become creative practice.
Find your copy ↗Try Every Role Has a Medium (Your Craft) for a different way to look at what you do.
Or turn to Nothing Is Wasted and Rightsizing Importance. Begin with the title that catches you.
Another city. Another way to look.