The good news--the very good news--is that a new, independent bookstore, with Duthie roots, is about to open in Vancouver. Ria Bleumer, who spent sixteen years with Duthie Books, will open Sitka Books & Art in August.
The location: West Fourth, two blocks from the last of the great Duthie family of stores, which closed, to great lamentation, in February. Interesting and encouraging sidebar: Sitka will take over a space currently occupied by the Book Warehouse, which, in a gesture of collegiality (and because it has five other stores circling the area) has chosen to move out so that Sitka can move in.
Pointless Digressions joins bookies throughout the city in wishing Ria Bleumer and business partner Karel Carnohan great success.
And why the name Sitka? Glad you asked. Wish we knew.
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