📕 After months of delays, Andersonville’s theater bookstore and cafe finally gets an opening date. | ✍️ kerryreid
The shelves already contain a diverse collection of new and used titles in a range of categories, interspersed with a cunning array of antiques and knickknacks. Old posters and production photos cover the walls, and the owners hope to create space for regular theater-related exhibitions of visual art as well.
In addition to play scripts, there are books on theater craft and management, art books that focus on stage designers, biographies, theatrical-themed novels, and young adult and kids’ books. At the front of the store where staff picks and new arrivals get pride of place, Fender points out Mariama J. Lockington’s young adult novel,, about a musical theater camp. Currently, the owners estimate that they have between 2,500 and 3,000 titles in stock.
The ordering process has been its own adventure. Crawford says, “We had to do it kind of the opposite of the way that a typical bookstore would open, [where they say] ‘OK, we have this much space, and we know we want to have these kinds of sections.’ And then a lot of the time you’ll just go straight to the publisher and they say, ‘Oh, well, here’s what we think every bookstore should have to start right now.’ Like, this is what’s hot, this is what’s selling.
“We’re obviously not like that. Most bookstores don’t have any of these [titles]. And so we had to kind of work in reverse of looking at our own shelves with our arms crossed and being like, ‘OK who’s that publisher? Or what’s that imprint? And do they publish anything else that we want? Or what else can we get from this playwright? And where can we source it from?’ And we had to go down these long rabbit holes of university presses and small indie presses.
The space cleaves rather neatly in half between the bookstore and the coffee bar. And that is very much by design. “It’s kind of like two spaces running at the same time,” says Crawford. “I’ve been saying it’s not like we’re 50 percent bookstore and 50 percent coffee shop. We’re 100 percent coffee shop and 100 percent bookstore.
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