We’ve been remiss about our Bookstores of the Triangle adventures of late, what with all the excitement about teaching in person and the Coppice Prize and all that good stuff, but yesterday, we found time to visit a brand-new bookstore in Durham: Rofhiwa Book Cafe on Driver Street in Old East Durham.
Read MoreYou might know the strip of shops and restaurants along 15 in Durham for bakery and beer garden Guglhupf and for gourmet food mainstay Foster’s Market. But if you don’t know it for bookstore Golden Fig—you should rectify that!
Read MoreNice Price Books & Records is one of those shops on Hillsborough Street that recalls a time when, we’ve heard, this artery was all punk coffeeshops and indie businesses, rather than…what it is now. Nice Price is a used record, CD, and bookshop located in the same block as Cup A Joe.
Read MoreWe love how this store is organized: books for little kids are located on the bottom shelves, while MG and YA books are located on the top shelves, so kids can age up from bottom shelves to top as they get taller.
Read MoreReader’s Corner is a used bookstore, selling cheap books from its outside shelves and slightly more expensive, high-quality tomes inside. It’s not a store to go to if you absolutely know you must have the latest hardcover that came out last week; however, they somehow, miraculously, often stock beautiful, like-new copies of new releases from the last five to ten years.
Read MoreEpilogue, located on bustling Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, is a gathering place for locals and students alike. Its waffles and Mexican sweets are delicious, its drinks innovative (Emily doesn’t usually like artisanal coffee drinks, but their dulce jalapeño syrup? Chef’s kiss!), its books both new and old well-curated and socially conscious.
Read MoreWe were thrilled to see a new bookstore open in Chapel Hill, especially one as stylish and welcoming as Epilogue—the pastries! the books! the murals! We’re excited to partner with them in the coming months: we’re hosting a literary trivia night at Epilogue on Friday, Dec. 13 and are hosting one of our six-week Fiction I workshops there starting in January. In advance of that, we wrote to Miranda and Jaime to learn a bit about how Epilogue came to be and their vision for the store going forward.
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