In the Barnes and Noble cookie-cutter siege on our fair Oklahoma City and its independent bookstores—R.I.P. Bollinger Books, you won’t be forgotten—in the end, Full Circle Bookstore, 1900 Northwest Expressway at 50 Penn Place, outlasted them all and continues to be a timely force in the literary community.
And while books were primarily their thing, it was their cultural programs that got a teenaged Louis Fowler into the bookstore—and into their film discussion groups with erstwhile critic John Pickard—that helped me, for better or worse, become the man I am.
Well, at least one of them.