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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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Literature · Ideas · Author events
Look up at the timber beams, then down at the display tables. Elliott Bay gives books a generous room on Capitol Hill. The shelves range widely; the events give writers a chance to speak for themselves. Begin with a subject you know almost nothing about.
Look up at the timber, then down at the tables. Begin with a subject you know almost nothing about.
1521 10th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122
Fiction · Cookbooks · Children’s books
The planters and front windows make a persuasive invitation. Queen Anne Book Company works at neighborhood scale: books, recommendations and reasons to return. Ask for something beyond your usual shelf. That is a useful sort of local knowledge.
Local knowledge is a person. Ask for something beyond your usual.
1811 Queen Anne Avenue N, Seattle, WA 98109
Used books · Rare finds · Cats
A cat above an open book: the sign knows its audience Twice Sold Tales pairs used and rare titles with resident cats The books have been somewhere before you
The books have been somewhere before you. So have the cats.
1833 Harvard Avenue, Seattle, WA 98122
Choose a book outside your work. Notice how it makes its case. Bring one useful question back with you.
Poetry · Chapbooks · Translation
Give a few lines the time you usually give a whole screen. Open Books devotes its Pioneer Square shop to poetry, from new collections to rare and out-of-print work. A good detour for anyone whose working day is made of words.
108 Cherry Street, Seattle, WA 98104
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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