Curbside Books to Open in Chicago's South Loop

News finally reached us over the transom that Curbside Splendor Publishing, a Chicago-based publisher of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, will be opening a new bookstore/record store/cafe/event space in Chicago's South Loop. Claire Kirch brings us this exciting news at Publishers Weekly.

Curbside Splendor Publishing, a Chicago publisher of literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry founded in 2009, is opening a bookstore. Curbside Books & Records, in the South Loop neighborhood, is going to be housed inside a 24,000-square-foot food hall called Revival Food Hall inside The National building.

The bookstore, which is set to open in July and will be 500 to 1,000-square feet, will feature titles published by Curbside Splendor, as well as those of other independent literary presses, and regional titles. Records produced by independent labels will also be available at the store.

“It won’t be a traditional bookstore,” Curbside Splendor publisher Victor David Giron said, comparing it to the bookstore Milkweed Editions is building inside the Open Book literary arts complex in Minneapolis. "The idea is that it’s going to fit into a larger communal space; it’s going to be part of this community center.”

More details to be found at PW.