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Our small press has several moving parts to it: a triannual online journal, a book publishing arm, and a bookshop IRL. We’re now adding a new wrinkle: a mobile pop-up bookstore.Atticus Books & Music will be going mobile this Tuesday (Sept. 5) and setting up shop at Bone Haus Brewing at 6 p.m. The theme: The Wild West.What, you ask, is a mobile pop-up bookstore? Well, it’s a little different than selling books out of the back of your beloved Microbus, but it’s not that different. In fact, there are those who believe that pop-up bookstores may save bookselling and indie literature from extinction. And, you may now add my name to that bandwagon.While the effort of dragging books all over creation doesn’t exactly get my motor running (I’m oldish and books are heavy), I do think pop-up bookstores are an ideal fit given today’s insulated, whirlwind culture. Many people say they don’t have time to browse through stockpiles of books. (I call those people phonies, usually in my head.) Nonetheless, I need some of those doomscrolling Facebook junkies to help me make this labor of love and madness sustainable. I also think the world needs to slow down, unplug, and enjoy all that we have created.If they’re not going to make time to come to our store’s quaint Fountain Hills location, we’ll meet them where they are (especially if that means meeting them at a hipster’s paradise where they drink good beer).Is this idea a half-baked work in progress? You better believe it. Most great ideas are first written on the back of a dog-eared napkin. Atticus Review was founded upon a dare. This nudge was promptly followed by a round of bourbon shots at an AWP off-site reading. Atticus Books started as a solo journey. I initially had sought the attention of readers only to find that the people I really wanted to meet were writers. One apprehensive writer’s half-baked blog grew to become an award-winning, genre-busting indie press.Organic growth and authentic collaboration are the best. I’d love to begin seeing pop-up bookstores everywhere that people mingle, be they bars, restaurants, parks, ice cream shops, coffee houses, rib joints, American Legion halls, you name it.How, you ask, do pop-up bookstores at themed parties help indie literature? One day, you’ll be sitting on a bar stool, drowning your sorrows in a pint of Guinness, and the next thing you know, you’re purchasing a collection of poems written by the next Dylan Thomas, published by a press that operates out of its basement. When you wake up the next morning, you find a bookmark with the name of a pop-up bookstore on it:Atticus Books & Music. A nontraditional bookstore and entertainment company. Let us bring the party to you.Dan CafaroPublisher & FounderAtticus Books & Music

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