Category Archives: independent bookstores

A Forray into Seattle’s Pilot Books

I returned to Washington’s coast and spent part of my rain-soaked Sunday at Pilot Books.  The bookshop is a small retail, almost loft like space in Seattle’s Capitol Hill district. What separates Pilot Books from other bookshops is that it only sells books put out by small presses.  True, you can purchase a Copper Canyon […]

Guest Blogger: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

I used to think that independent bookstores supported independent authors, and independent presses, but now I’m not so sure. So many independent bookstores have become little more than showplaces for the NPR circuit, endlessly parading the same authors on their front tables, or if not the same authors then the newest authors to win the […]