Chapters Literary Arts Center & Bookstore

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.