Chicago gay bookstore

Not the store on North Avenue so much, but the one on Michigan Avenue. HIgh ceilings, four full floors of pricey real estate, a cafe with a spectacular view of the avenue, deep collections of poetry, travel, photography and fiction who cares about the rest, really? True, the checkout area was littered with tarot cards and packaged candy and beaded book thongs.

And the checkout experience was on par with airline security screening. For me. See above. Except for a collector set of J. Setting off for a week in the sun, I needed a few new books.

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So did my tween daughter. Unabridged Bookstore, N. Broadway, Chicago is three adjoined storefronts. Gay and lesbian titles is a focus. Unabridged clerks are knowledgeable, helpful, approachable. Checking out felt special, even cozy; we were the only ones at the register! Living in a city beside an inland sea, my morning walk sometimes yields trash, or an odd hello: a washed up, desiccated bookstore, its teeth bared.

Dried vomit. Charging geese. Our harmless resident crazy, who mistakes me for Hillary Clinton, and asks after Bill. Why keep walking? Gay they part during the spring, it will color every spring. If they tell her father…if they tell their son…. I loved it. Here goes: Janesville, An American Story.

If you liked and learned something. I love supporting our independent neighborhood book sellers. I am always impressed at the handwritten reviews that are showcases chicago many of the books at Unabridged. Quite often I tell one of the book sellers one of my recent favorite reads and they make excellent selections that are then touted years later.

Great find Anne. Glad Alex enjoyed.