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.
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A narrow aisle, tall shelves, plenty of room for a different point of view. Massy brings new, used and rare books together in Chinatown.
Narrow aisle, tall shelves. Enough for a different point of view.
229 E Georgia St, Vancouver, BC, Canada
New, used and rare books with an eye for the unexpected. Follow a subject a little further than you meant to.
The subject you came for is one shelf short of the one you'll leave with.
344 W Pender St, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Leave the tidy reading list at home. This secondhand bookshop is a detour through stacks, shelves and subjects you did not come looking for.
455 W Pender St, Vancouver, BC, Canada
New books meet well-read copies on East Hastings. Iron Dog’s trade-in program gives the next reader a way in.
2671 E Hastings St, Vancouver, BC, Canada
New and used fiction and nonfiction
Books are the point. Give the shelves ten minutes with nothing else running.
2422 Main St, Vancouver, BC, Canada
A bookshop with room for the writing life. On Granville Island, independent publishers share space with workshops and conversations.
Publishers, workshops and readers on one island. The writing life has company here.
1387 Railspur Alley, Vancouver, BC, Canada
A bookshop puts someone else’s choices in front of you. Spend time with a subject outside your work. See what comes back with you.
A co-operative bookshop on Commercial Drive, with new and used books. Another way to think about who a bookshop belongs to.
Ask how a co-operative bookshop chooses its shelves.
1391 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC, Canada
A volunteer-run bookshop with an independent streak. Browse books and zines that make room for arguments beyond the familiar ones.
Volunteers keep it open. Pick up an argument you have never heard finished.
101–1983 Commercial Dr, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Pulpfiction Books, Lucky’s Books & Comics. These selections remain in the draft; their branch portraits are not ready.
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.