Bailey/Coy Books In Seattle Closing

I was sad to hear through Paul Constant that Bailey/Coy Books is closing at the end of the month. I don't know enough about Puget Sound literary culture or Seattle retail to speak to what it means in either of those senses, but as a former Capitol Hill resident I spent a lot of time perusing its shelves and bought a lot of books from them. It was a very good neighborhood bookstore in the sense that Constant mentions -- that most camps felt welcome there -- but it was also convenient to a lot of foot traffic folks, hired mostly friendly and non-stupid people, had a balanced set of offerings by category, and made you feel like you had a snapshot of what was going on in the book world despite it being a small space that couldn't possibly have the number of books required to do that.

Bailey/Coy did have a comics component, although nothing that came close to major or noteworthy except for one stab at a full graphic novels section section organized by one-time employee Evan Sult that I believe very much failed to get over. It was a great place to find out about art books related to comics that didn't really raise an eyebrow in the general funnybook circles -- something by Gary Baseman, say. It also hosted the occasional comics-related event; I remember one with James Sturm and Dylan Horrocks that Dylan attended right after finishing off the bulk of our Comics Journal interview. Anyway, if I still lived somewhere around there I'm sure I'd miss stepping in on my way home from a movie, although the movie theater I'm thinking of is probably closed, too.
 
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