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We're now on facebook, but welcome here too, to CHAPTERS Literary Arts Center & Bookstore. We will shortly be announcing the location of the affordable new home we have set our sights on. This is a space that requires no build out, and for which we already have raised the security deposit, thanks to all who have helped us get this far. PLEASE HELP US NOW GO ALL THE WAY! Your donation to our 501 (c)(3)nonprofit Chapters Literary Arts Center will get our 22 year-old Chapters Literary Bookstore up and running again, and will fund our free monthly programs, our letterpress center, and our literacy outreach. TO MAKE A DONATION NOW, PLEASE SEE BELOW: WHY & HOW TO DONATE.
For 22 years of selling books in downtown D.C. the most frequently asked question was, "What's a literary bookstore? Sounds elitist. . . ." Well, cyber-reader, when you walked in our doors you'd find an enormous poetry section, literary fiction old and new, and literature in foreign languages. You'd find offerings from Aristotle to Babar to Churchill, mysteries both secular and sacred, the culinary arts, children's literature, natural history, travel writing, and more. We catered to serious, uncommon readers and inveterate browsers. We've long been preservers of literary culture, by both the titles we stock, and the panoply of authors and events we've hosted.
And now, with the extraordinary efforts of our Chapters Literary Arts Center Board, and with the help of DLA Piper, we have formed a new nonprofit, gained 501(c)(3) status, and we will build a new home to share our love of, and belief in, the power of language and the literary arts, and their necessary place in a civil society.
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The Downtown Neighborhood Survey
is sponsored by the Downtown BID, The Penn Quarter Neighborhood Assoc. & the Downtown Neighborhood Assoc.
The deadline has been extended to 2/26. Participants who live or work Downtown are eligible to win wonderful prizes.
Please let them know you specifically want Chapters Literary Arts Center & Bookstore to have a downtown home. The combined muscle of these 3 powerful associations behind us would be a great asset!
See www.downtowndc.org/neighborhood
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We founded Chapters Literary Arts Center as a nonprofit in July 2007 with a mission to cultivate literary culture past, present, and future. We will serve as a curated, community literary salon; we will maintain Chapters Literary Bookstore's humanities-based inventory to build the audience for all the language arts, including foreign languages; and we will offer a community letterpress. And we will actively work to reduce DC's 37% illiteracy rate.
PLEASE DONATE HERE.
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Yes, a river is a tree, a tree a river, built by source and branchings
like the river near Byzantium called Maeander, Byzantine with
tributaries
and blind offshoots, like that elm, closer to home, that earlier
every year
loses leaves, then towers in isolation, each divided limb finding
shape
inside the air, like this rain slip-slipping down the window,
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There are 13 ways of looking at your Chapters Literary Arts Center donation, besides as a small investment in our 22 year old indie bookstore, its literary programs, and literacy services, and as a tax deduction to a 501 (c)(3)nonprofit.
And here's No. 8: You second Howard Norman's opinion that "CHAPTERS is an indispensable resource, an active monument on the cultural landscape."
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Come see our Recommended Shelf in the store for more of our favorites!
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The Morville Hours: The Story of a Garden
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Swift, Katherine
An exquisitely written book about one particular English garden--and about the arc of life. Nobody writes about gardens like the English. And few English writers have ever been as eloquent or astute as Katherine Swift. Some twenty years ago, she and her husband leased a house in the town of Shropshire with a garden that became her passion. Driven to uncover its history, she takes readers on a journey back through time, linking the stories of those who lived in the house and tended the same red soil with her family's own saga. Spanning hundreds of years, "The Morville Hours "is also deeply personal--a journey through the seasons and also one of self-exploration, of finding one's place in the world and putting down roots. With each chapter bringing to life an hour of the day or night--from the crunch of grass underfoot at midnight on a frosty New Year's Eve to the bloom of blue-black damsons picked on a golden September afternoon--Swift pulls us into her world and, at the same time, expands and illuminates our own. For anyone with a passion for gardens and gardening, "The Morville Hours "will be unforgettable. |
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After 22 years as a local independent retailer, some people still wonder: Is Chapters part of the Canadian chain?
Absolutely not! Chapters A Literary Bookstore was founded in 1985 by myself, Terri Merz, and a fellow French major from Georgetown U., Robin Diener.
Are you now closed?
No, we're in storage while we work on raising the funds for our new home, and you can still buy all your books from us right here on our website.
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Unique and provocative selections from a great diversity of voices...all personally recommended by the independent booksellers of America.
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Script and Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting
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Florey, Kitty Burns
Tracing the story from the earliest cave scribblings to the Palmer Method to today's text-message-composed novels, this is a great read for anyone who has ever agonized over their signature, wondered what the slant on their 'l' means, or deplored the state of penmanship in today's typing world.--Jenn Northington, The King's English Bookshop (Salt Lake City, UT) |
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