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Independent Bookstore Day: A Farewell to 400 NW 10th Ave and Celebration of Life

  • Third House Books 400 Northwest 10th Avenue Gainesville, FL, 32601 United States (map)

Join us on Independent Bookstore Day (4/27) to say farewell to 400 NW 10th Ave and celebrate our 8 years of life! We announced this back in December, but if you haven't heard: After nearly a decade of running a bookstore, I'm excited to be shifting gears and shutting down the brick & mortar, converting to pop-ups and events-only in the fall (meaning this will no longer be my full-time gig). This will be our closing party (it's not a sad thing!) and I'd love to see you!

We'll have a funeral (putting the 'fun' in funeral) with words from old friends including Kiren, the founder, and readings by Anthony Verdi and Tyler Gillespie.

Our last day open will be Saturday, May 4th but we hope to sell everything we can on Indie Bookstore Day and then liquidating from there.

If you need furniture / fixtures and would like some of ours, please reach out after 4/27 and we can talk about the details.

Buy a book and send off our physical location with lots of love.

about the authors:

Tyler Gillespie is the author of the poetry collections Florida Man: Poems, Revisited (Burrow Press) and the nature machine! (Autofocus) as well as the essay collection The Thing about Florida: Exploring a Misunderstood State (University Press of Florida). He teaches at Ringling College of Art and Design. He's on Instagram @tyler_gills

Anthony Verdi is a writer, event planner, and the founder of Splat Magazine. His writing has been featured in Maudlin House and Vlad Mag. When not writing he is planning oddities markets and making tees for Ant Apparel. He lives in Gainesville and is working on his first novel.