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PLACES TO WANDER · CITY 13Map: 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.
Literature · Ideas · Author events
The title of the shop leaves room for both the public argument and the sentence itself. Politics and Prose’s Connecticut Avenue flagship pairs a broad selection with author events. Pick a subject you care about. Then try a writer who approaches it differently.
A familiar subject can look different in another writer’s hands.
5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008
Fiction · Nonfiction · Children’s books
The big BOOKS in the window is a useful instruction. Solid State’s H Street shop brings general-interest reading, children’s books and author conversations to the neighborhood. Let a bookseller introduce you to a title your usual feed has missed.
The big BOOKS in the window is the instruction. Let a bookseller hand you a title your feed has missed.
600 H Street NE, Washington, DC 20002
Used books · First editions · Rare finds
The awning makes the introduction; the window supplies the temptation. Capitol Hill Books offers used and rare books near Eastern Market. A fitting detour in a city full of current affairs: spend a little time with something that has lasted.
657 C Street SE, Washington, DC 20003
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.