Shelf Awareness
Karen Lillis, author and former bookseller at St. Mark's Bookshop in New York City, has opened Small Press Pittsburgh, a small press-focused pop up shop in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Lillis told the Twenty-Four Hours weblog that "the plan is to pop up at crowded cultural events. The bookstand heavily features Pittsburgh's emerging authors and Pittsburgh-based independent independent publishers, and then I mix in a selection of litmags, zines, and books from elsewhere.... n one sense, my bookstand is based on the twin powers of the Face Out and Hand Sell."The stand carries between 50 and 60 books and made its debut on July 5. Mellow Pages Library of Bushwick, Brooklyn, and The Newsstand of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, inspired Lillis to create the Small Press Pittsburgh shop.
Small Press Pittsburgh is also the name of a web directory for Pittsburgh's small presses and literary community. Lillis created the website in an advanced cataloging class while studying library science; she hopes to use the website and bookstand to "foster connections and collaborations" between artists and writers in Pittsburgh's literary scene.
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