Renata Vos
Owner, fiction buyer
Has read everything in the front room at least once, and will tell you honestly if a book isn't for you.
Come sit a while
Find us at the corner, stay past your errand
We're a narrow storefront with three rooms behind it: fiction and poetry up front, the used-books room in the back, and a reading room upstairs that smells faintly of old paper and better coffee than a bookshop needs.
Practical matters
Hours, and how to find us
Address14 Thistledown Lane
Mon – Thu10 AM – 7 PM
Fri – Sat10 AM – 9 PM
Sunday11 AM – 5 PM
Street parking is metered but plentiful after 6 PM, and the bus stops two doors down. If the front door is propped open, we're in. If it's raining, Comma will be on the windowsill, judging the weather.
Inside the shop
Three rooms, one staircase
Who you'll meet
The people (and the one cat)
Wendell Cho
Poetry & events
Runs the poetry circle and the reading series. Ask him about anything published before 1970.
Comma
Resident cat, quality control
Sleeps on whatever he considers the best book on the table. Not always right, rarely wrong.
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