
Fleeting Pages takes over the old Borders in Eastside (pic by Ronald Woan)
Pop-up Indie Bookseller Fleeting Pages will re-open the doors at the empty Borders on Penn Circle South in East Liberty at 10am on Saturday, May 7, 2011. Fleeting Pages will sell independently published material of all stripes, as well as host writing workshops, literary readings and other events. Per their website, Fleeting Pages will take over “a space, left empty by a failed big box bookstore, for one month, and fill it with independent & self-published work of all kinds.” They currently have an open call for material.
Taking over the closed Borders Bookstore, Fleeting Pages will be open 7 days of the week until June 3, at which point this pop store will close its doors. “We felt that it was long enough to test some theories, and to make it worth giving up the rest of our lives for eleven weeks,” states Fleeting Pages creator, Jodi Morrison of Braddock, PA. Morrison explains her motivation behind the project; “I have always had a fascination with space, art, culture and economics.”
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