Bookstores, libraries, and other literary souls have long been safe harbors for ideas, community, and other dangerous ideals, so I always have to check them out when I stumble across them, even if it’s just a cursory glance.
Right now, Oklahoma City has about five or six raging independent bookstores holding firm to the true spirit of mass literacy—charging head-first into the wracked sternum of total commercialism, ever battling mega stores like Barnes & Noble.