Today we ventured out to the countryside of Chatham County to visit a bookstore that’s been around since 1989 but that we’d never before visited: McIntyre’s Books in Fearrington Village.
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We’ve been remiss about our Bookstores of the Triangle adventures of late, what with all the excitement about teaching in person and the Coppice Prize and all that good stuff, but yesterday, we found time to visit a brand-new bookstore in Durham: Rofhiwa Book Cafe on Driver Street in Old East Durham.
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You might know the strip of shops and restaurants along 15 in Durham for bakery and beer garden Guglhupf and for gourmet food mainstay Foster’s Market. But if you don’t know it for bookstore Golden Fig—you should rectify that!
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Nice Price Books & Records is one of those shops on Hillsborough Street that recalls a time when, we’ve heard, this artery was all punk coffeeshops and indie businesses, rather than…what it is now. Nice Price is a used record, CD, and bookshop located in the same block as Cup A Joe.
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We love how this store is organized: books for little kids are located on the bottom shelves, while MG and YA books are located on the top shelves, so kids can age up from bottom shelves to top as they get taller.
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So&So has recently moved across the street to a much more spacious storefront at 719 N. Person (in case you haven’t heard, your very own Redbud Writing Project will be operating out of the garden-level side of this building!).
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Epilogue, located on bustling Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, is a gathering place for locals and students alike. Its waffles and Mexican sweets are delicious, its drinks innovative (Emily doesn’t usually like artisanal coffee drinks, but their dulce jalapeño syrup? Chef’s kiss!), its books both new and old well-curated and socially conscious.
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No bookstore tour of the Triangle would be complete without mentioning Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh's flagship indie store. Founded in 1984, Quail Ridge is currently located in the North Hills area, and is a hub for visiting author events, kids’ story hours, writing classes (ahem), and more.
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Looking for something to read during these fallow, sleepy holiday days? Arshia and Emily rounded up our favorite books of 2020 (note: this list will not necessarily include books that were published in 2020, but books that we happened to read during the year).
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I know this is a tough time economically and emotionally for most, if not all of you, but we wanted to provide you with a round-up of organizations and funds in the area that have launched to help the artists and literati who are suffering from lost wages and opportunities during this period. If you can, please consider taking the money you’d spend on drinks and dining and fun and kicking a few dollars towards these fundraising efforts.
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We were thrilled to see a new bookstore open in Chapel Hill, especially one as stylish and welcoming as Epilogue—the pastries! the books! the murals! We’re excited to partner with them in the coming months: we’re hosting a literary trivia night at Epilogue on Friday, Dec. 13 and are hosting one of our six-week Fiction I workshops there starting in January. In advance of that, we wrote to Miranda and Jaime to learn a bit about how Epilogue came to be and their vision for the store going forward.
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