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PS: Our website is undergoing some construction at this time...
And we are temporarily unable to process orders. We hope to have this fixed asap. In the meantime you may email us at chapters.literary@erols.com with any questions. And our mailing address remains the same at this time: 445 11th St NW, DC 20004. And phone messages may be left at 202 737 5553. Many thanks to all those who have contributed so generously for a new home for Chapters Literary Arts Center, and for those who continue to offer their support and good wishes, Terri
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| Welcome to CHAPTERS: A Literary Bookstore. In our 22 years of selling books in downtown D.C. the most frequently asked question has been, "What's a literary bookstore? Sounds snooty and elitist. . . ." Well, cyber-reader, when you walked in our doors you'd find our enormous poetry section right up front, literary fiction old and new, and literature in foreign languages. But you would also find an array of offerings from Aristotle to Babar to Churchill. We're very fond of spiritual matters, the culinary arts, children's literature, natural history, travel writing, and on and on. In short, we're both very selective and wide-ranging in what we stock. We're a shop that caters to serious, uncommon readers and inveterate browsers. If that describes you, then do read on!
The second most frequently asked question is about our store motto, Littera Scripta Manet. Latinists among you know that it's a quote from Horace that means the written word remains, a notion to which we wholeheartedly subscribe, and especially in a digital age. Here at CHAPTERS, the written word does indeed remain, even while our shelves and artwork are temporarily scattered, much like the limbs of Horace's poet... |
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Sept 29 was our last day of business at 445 11th St. We are currently in storage while we investigate new locations in the Penn Quarter neighborhood. But we do need your help to go forward. PLEASE CALL 202 737 5553 to make a donation to our new nonprofit Chapters Literary Arts Center, which will house our 22 year-old Chapters Literary Bookstore, our nonprofit Chapters Literary Arts Center, with its monthly programs, literary reference library, and letterpress center, and a Tea Room!
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There are 13 ways of looking at your Chapters Literary Arts Center donation, which is a small investment in our 22 year old independent, locally owned bookshop, and which replaces your tattered old Chapters Frequent Buyer Card.
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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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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Chapters' FAQ'S |
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After 22 years as a local independent retailer, some people still ask: 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 find a new home, and you can still buy all your books from us right here on our website.
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