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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.
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Local authors · Fiction · New Orleans
Take the corner entrance. Octavia’s shelves and events give New Orleans writers room alongside the wider reading world. Start with the local selection, then ask a bookseller what belongs beside it. A city makes more sense when someone who reads it helps you in.
Start local, then ask what belongs beside it. A city makes more sense when someone who reads it helps you in.
513 Octavia Street, New Orleans, LA 70115
Literature · Essays · Coffee
Baldwin gets the name on the building—and plenty of space on the reading list This coffee shop and bookstore puts books and conversation under one roof Pick an essay
Pick an essay. Stay with the argument longer than a feed would allow.
1030 Elysian Fields Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70117
New books · Secondhand · Rare finds
New and secondhand share the bill on Oak Street. That is the pleasure of Blue Cypress: the next book needn’t be the newest one. Follow a familiar author into unfamiliar company; leave a little room in the bag.
The next book needn't be the newest one. Follow a familiar author into unfamiliar company.
8123 Oak Street, New Orleans, LA 70118
Choose a book outside your work. Notice how it makes its case. Bring one useful question back with you.
Literature · Rare editions
Look up for the hanging sign, then turn into Pirate’s Alley. Faulkner House concentrates on fine literature and rare editions, including its namesake. A small stop with a useful reminder: a selection gets interesting when someone leaves things out.
624 Pirates Alley, New Orleans, LA 70116
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.
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