Literati Press is an ambitious, subculture publisher and book shop in the historic Paseo Plunge in the Paseo Arts District.
Progressive book shop in the Paseo Arts District.
Operating as usual
Join us tonight from 6-9pm during art walk for the opening of Bridget.makes' "Literature in Art," a collection embodying Trowbridge's emotional response to some of her favorite works of literature Painted without brush or spatula, Trowbridge applies paint to the canvas using only her hands, connecting to the media through direct physical interaction.
James is lonely!
Come keep him company!
It's ! Time to…DANCE!
Happy (2nd) release day to #3!
After weather/shipping delays, shops in the northeast should have it on the shelves!
Pick up the conclusion to the first arc of this alien-invasion comedy by Greg White Illustration & Colin Ingersol today!
Thursday, January 12 at 7pm returns to the bookshop!
This month's workshop is led by Alannah Benae, a writer and poet that is a Red Dirt Poetry regular. She is currently working on a Creative Writing degree.
Red Dirt Writes is a drop-in monthly writing workshop that is always free to attend!
It's Tolkien's birthday!
Come celebrate with us!
Just tell us you're celebrating ol' JRR's birthday, and we'll give you 10% off all titles in our fantasy section today, January 3!
I knew there was reason. So, I’m at the store today and I can help you out. James, book apothecary.
Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love my tsundoku.
Three and a half hours and $968 to go on the kickstarter for issues 5-8 of !
Can we do it?
Either way, it's gonna be a hell of a ride:
Back and follow along here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/209756764/we-promised-utopia-second-season
And please share and tell a friend about this awesome, ambitious scifi comic!
Help us ensure more gets made!
We’re at 83% and the campaign ends at 9pm CST.
It’s gonna be a nerve-racking 7 hours, but I believe we can get there.
Can you help us by telling a friend, backing, and/or sharing?
Thank you❤️
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/209756764/we-promised-utopia-second-season
The ambitious enviro-fiction comic about the rise and fall of an idealized society is launching its second season.
We are so close! Any amount helps make issues 5-8 of We Promised Utopia possible!
Today’s the last day! Please consider contributing!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/209756764/we-promised-utopia-second-season?ref=discovery&term=We%20promised
Happy !
In the west and south you should be able to find 3 at your local shops starting today, but because of shipping delays, the north east will have to wait until January 4 🥶.
You can also check it out on and order it direct from us!
Is this going to be the last panel of ?
We've got 35 hours left on the kickstarter and 23% left to raise.
Help us out at the link below (even $1 moves us closer and means more people see us) before your chance is...
GONE!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/209756764/we-promised-utopia-second-season
It's a race against time!
Will issues 5, 6, 7, & 8 of our science fiction epic We Promised Utopia get made?
It's about 3/4ths of the way to its goal with just over 2 days left.
Help us get there by backing now!
The ambitious enviro-fiction comic about the rise and fall of an idealized society is launching its second season.
It's Book Emergency Day (aka Christmas Day)!
If you have a literary emergency today, James the Book Apothecary is open and ready to help.
We'll be hanging out and talking books until about 2pm if you need a last minute gift, or just need to get outta the house.
Don't forget we've got the Pay What You Can Shelf.
And don't forget sometimes what you can pay is $0.
And that's OK.
And also don't forget that we're collecting menstrual products for Period OKC to help mitigate period poverty!
We're open until 3pm today (24th) and 9-2 tomorrow (25th).
The bookshop will be open 9-3 tomorrow (Christmas Eve & the 6th Day of Hanukkah) and 9-2 on the 25th (Christmas Day & the 7th Day of Hanukkah).
To celebrate, here's an artist's rendering of James and Echo hanging out. Not for the holidays or anything, just on an average Tuesday.
(We PROMISE Echo will remain fully clothed in the shop.)
🌈Come close out the year with RAF, LABRYS and Sisteria on 12/30 Beer City Music Hall. Save on advance tickets now! Ticket link: https://www.prekindle.com/promo/id/531433528885220050
Come get a hot beverage, a donut, and do some holiday shopping!
Let us know you're going to get something from HOLEY ROLLERS and you'll save 10% on books, and show them your purchase from us, and you'll save 10% there, too!
I’m here in Tulsa at the grand opening of Taryn’s Tulhoma & Co. Cookbooks + Kitchen Goods pop-up book shop. She is set up inside Foolish Things Coffee Co. Her collection of books is incredible - encyclopedic food books, food writing, fiction, including murder mysteries centered around food, and of course cook books and cuisines from every continent and unique subcultures from around the world. She’ll be here until noon today.
Thanks to Jimmy Gaspero for a wonderful interview of the crew on The Comic Book Yeti Cryptid Creator Corner!
Check it out and then back the Kickstarter campaign today (link in comments)!
Show Cryptid Creator Corner from Comic Book Yeti, Ep Literati Press talks We Promised Utopia - Dec 13, 2022
We're giving away a first printing of #1, signed and remarqued by the cover artist, the incomparable Nick Hermes (creator of The ).
Share this post and tag to get entered to win.
Our Kickstarter campaign for season two is ongoing and we deeply appreciate your help getting the word out. http://kck.st/3uaIr4V
We'll select a winner at random from the shares, so share away!
Credit to on Instagram for the idea.
And this one scans correctly!
Come get books and donuts!
HOLEY ROLLERS
Hey, you know what's not down?
Your locally owned stores.
workshopping new slogans
Mondays in December, we're giving you 10% off books when you show us a same-day receipt from Flora Bodega or one of the restaurants open on Mondays (Picasso Cafe, OSO Paseo, Gorō Ramen, Paseo Grill, Burger Punk)!
Come get some food and then do your holiday shopping with us!
Art lovers! Comic lovers! Lovers in general!
Get something from Natasha Alterici!
Super good deals on commissions and prints (not to mention her fabulous zines)!
https://alterici.gumroad.com
It's my comics about dinosaurs, le***an films, and other important topics.
We're just $120 away from reaching $4000 in funding for Season Two!
Today only Issue 2 joins #1 as free to read on
Check it out here, then back to help us make season two at the link in the comments.
https://globalcomix.com/c/we-promised-utopia/chapters/en/2/1/1
Read We Promised Utopia Chapter 2 Page 1 in English Online. The era-spanning sci-fi epic returns in present day with fractures in Isabel Bari
Reminder: 6 hours left to shop with us at bookshop dot org and get free shipping!
Follow the link below:
https://bookshop.org/shop/literatipress
Literati Press is an ambitious, subculture publisher and book shop in the historic Paseo Plunge in the Paseo Arts District. Founded in 2010, Literati Press strives to advance the literary community within Oklahoma by advocating progressive and cerebral local, national, and international storytellers...
Almost 25% to our goal for the kickstarter in the first three hours!
THANK YOU!
Let's keep it going!
The ambitious enviro-fiction comic about the rise and fall of an idealized society is launching its second season.
Today's the big day!
The for Season Two of launches at 2pm CST.
Help us make the thrilling continuation of this epic happen!
The ambitious enviro-fiction comic about the rise and fall of an idealized society is launching its second season.
Happy !
Remember: support your local bookshop!
If you're in the OKC area, with us, but if you don't have one near you or want to support us, we'd be grateful if you did your online shopping through our bookshop dot org site.
There's FREE shipping through Cyber Monday!
https://bookshop.org/shop/literatipress
Literati Press is an ambitious, subculture publisher and book shop in the historic Paseo Plunge in the Paseo Arts District. Founded in 2010, Literati Press strives to advance the literary community within Oklahoma by advocating progressive and cerebral local, national, and international storytellers...
A message from James with a shoutout to our very own Ruth Borum Loveland!
Shop the bookshop in person Black Friday & Small Business Saturday & get a Mystery Envelope w purchase!
Will you get a gift card? Nifty sticker? Free comic? Nice coupon? Free donut holes from HOLEY ROLLERS? Come buy something this Friday and Saturday!
Limit one per customer per day. Coupons and free donut holes valid beginning 11/27.
If you aren't in OKC this holiday season and you'd like to support the shop, our bookshop dot org page is the best way to do it.
There's FREE shipping Black Friday through Cyber Monday, and a book selection as big as any river in South America.
Follow this link, make sure Literati Press Bookshop is selected as your bookshop!
Literati Press is an ambitious, subculture publisher and book shop in the historic Paseo Plunge in the Paseo Arts District. Founded in 2010, Literati Press strives to advance the literary community within Oklahoma by advocating progressive and cerebral local, national, and international storytellers...
The Mystery Envelopes return!
Shop the Literati Press Bookshop in person Black Friday and Small Business Saturday and get a Mystery Envelope with purchase!
Will you get a gift card? A nifty sticker? A free comic? A nice coupon? Free donut holes from HOLEY ROLLERS? The only way to find out is to come buy something this Friday and Saturday!
Limit one per customer per day. Coupons and free donut holes valid beginning 11/27.
Our pals at Word Of Mouth Bookshop × Goods have decided to expand their book swap, and we're honored they asked us to join them!
December 10 we'll be hosting the first part of a two location book swap!
More details soon!
November 28, we launch crowdfunding for Season Two of .
A scifi series grounded in science, it's created by two energy industry professionals w decades of experience.
It tackles what we might do to combat climate change, and how human faults could spoil it all.
The story takes place over millennia, told in 3 specific eras, a present-day illustrated by JEO Creations, the future utopia illustrated by Jonathan Koelsch, & the bleak far-future illustrated by Chloé Elimam Illustrations.
Creators Adrian Morales, Robert Holman, Charles J. Martin, & John Eric Osborn deliver a mystery –how could humanity survive man-made climate change, only to create an even more dire situation– that unfurls in thrilling moments from each era.
It's a story about humanity, but also a story about how individuals can impact the course of history– for good or ill.
Read issue #1 here: https://globalcomix.com/c/we-promised-utopia/chapters/en/1/
Make sure you sign up for notification about the campaign launch of this epic science fiction comic here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/209756764/we-promised-utopia-second-season
The ambitious enviro-fiction comic about the rise and fall of an idealized society is launching its second season.
We've got Joey spinning metal and R.D. Tarver signing Hell Patrol!
Come on down and 🤘!
(No sound for copyright reasons, but trust me, it's awesome.)
Come visit us at until 1pm!
Grab a coffee, something to munch on, and then do some early holiday shopping (or treat yourself!).
November 28 we launch the kickstarter for Season Two of We Promised Utopia!
Sign up at the link to be notified on launch- early backers help so much, even if it's just a $1 "Good Luck" pledge!
The ambitious enviro-fiction comic about the rise and fall of an idealized society is launching its second season.
PEOPLE OF EARTH!
JOIN WITH US TONIGHT FOR AN ALL-AGES AT Vanessa House Beer Company TO CELEBRATE OUR IMPENDING TAKEOVER OF EARTH AND ISSUE 2 OF ALIENGAGED.
JOIN THE COLLECTIVE FROM 6-9PM, TONIGHT, ON YOUR EARTH WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 16
Listen to Morris & join us for an all ages Ink & Draw at the Vanessa House taproom to celebrate the launch of Aliengaged issue two!
Tonight from 6-9pm
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73103
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James shares a very important message in this video. Literati Press believes strongly that sharing stories is what makes us human, and that sharing stories from marginalized and vulnerable communities broadens and strengthens humanity. Book banning, limiting access to information, and firing teachers are the tools of totalitarian regimes throughout history. We've always carried a wide selection of banned authors, from Harper Lee to Mikhail Bulgakov, Tony Morrison to Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth Acevedo to Salman Rushdie, George Orwell to Margaret Atwood. We will continue to do so. Teens can visit the Brooklyn Public Library website (here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/books-unbanned) to get a library card for access to books that may not be available locally (we've also got a QR code link posted prominently in the shop).
‘Twas the night after the Paseo Arts Festival, and not a creature was stirring, not even our regulars 😧 We’re closing up the shop an hour early (6pm). Come by with your book emergencies in the next 15 mins or you’ll have to wait until tomorrow, when we’ll be open from 10am-6pm.
Not only is it Independent Book Store Day, it’s the final Saturday of Clint Stone’s show Chordostone. Art can do great things for us. One of things it can do is bring us together. Come over and see Clint’s work, get a donut, and hang out with us.
Tomorrow is Independent Book Store Day. We hope to see you. Please come and spend some time with us. We appreciate you.
No big deal, just Tony Westlund (Novel and Proper) jammin’ out on a cigar box guitar surrounded by the custom shelves he built for us. Come by the shop throughout the month of April to see the rest of Clint Stone’s “ChordoStone” show and test out one of his noisemakers yourself.
Paul Juhasz reading from ‘Ronin’ live from the bookshop
Howdy, y'all. We're gonna call it a day at 3pm today (Wednesday). It's starting to come down pretty fast and isn't supposed to slow down until 10pm or so. We'll see about tomorrow, so call the shop or check on social media before you come over. Stay warm and safe, Oklahoma.
We have built new shelves at our online store! Check out What We're Reading at Literati Press Right Now, along with shelves for the all-time favorites of Chloe, James, Tre, Ruth, Steve, and Charles Martin. So don't forget to browse the virtual aisles and check out what we've got at https://bookshop.org/shop/literatipress.
Congratulations to #RezDetectives co-writer #stevenpauljudd who got his Marvel debut this week in #MarvelVoices #MarvelsVoicesHeritage #LPComics #LiteratiPress To get a copy of #RezDetectives, ask your #localbookstore, #localcomicshop, or order directly from us: https://literati-press-comics-and-novels.square.site/product/rez-detectives-pre-order-hardcover-/5036
There are two ways to get get books for the Paseo Book Club. My favorite, come into the store so we can talk a bit and also get 20% off the book club selection. The other is to go to our online store at at https://bookshop.org/shop/literatipress. The Paseo Book Club is the first shelf you’ll see. All of our 2022 books are on the shelf. On January 25th at 7:00 we’ll discuss “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The books are arranged in month order on the shelf. “It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.” Marquez.
Literati Press Bookshop will be open Christmas from 10 AM to 12 for gift and book emergencies.
Check us out at our online store front at bookshop.org. Just type in Literati Press Bookshop. Thanks
Check out our curated digital shelves on Bookshop dot org! Christmas shopping? Order soon to get books before the big day. #shoplocal #bookshop #indiebookstore #bookshopdotorg #christmas #christmasshopping
If you make a purchase from us in person at our bookshop (3010 Paseo OKC) on #blackfriday or #smallbusinesssaturday, you'll get an envelope with a #mysteryprize in it while supplies last! It might be a $10 gift certificate (valid starting Dec 1). It might be a coupon for free drip coffee and a donut from HOLEY ROLLERS. We’ll have free coffee from courtesy Holey Rollers on Friday. It might be a coupon for 10% off one total purchase (excluding consignment items) at the bookshop in December. It might be a gift certificate to one of the Humankind Hospitality restaurants in the #PaseoArtsDistrict, like Picasso Cafe, OSO Paseo, or FRIDA Southwest. It might be stickers! Or a signed copy of one of our comics! We're open 9-7 Friday and Saturday, so come on by and get your holiday shopping done with our selection of books, gifts, art, and jewelry!
Tomorrow is Veterans Day. Veterans and active duty personnel get a free coffee from Holey Rollers Donuts and 10% off of any book at Literati Press Comics and Novels - both inside The Paseo Plunge.
James and Vanna White explaining how to order through bookshop.org #literatipress #bookshop #indie #shoplocal
Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day from James and Literati Press Bookshop!
First Peoples’ Day
Just saying good-bye to one of our customers today. I’m going to miss him.
Wow. I just had the pleasure of interviewing the poet Rob Sturma. His poetry has entered my heart and will reside there for awhile. Head V. Heart is his new collection. Join us July 28 at 8 PM at The Paseo Plunge in the Paseo Arts District for a reading and signing.
James recently had the privilege to interview Heather Levy about her debut novel, Walking Through Needles which releases June 29. If you'd like to have us hold a copy for you when it comes out, stop by or call and we'll add you to the list! "Walking Through Needles is a lyrical, raw, crime novel with all the darkness honesty demands. I find it hard to believe this is Heather’s first novel – each sentence is a work of art."
To shop at independent bookstores or not, that is the question? In this video I present 4 ways independent bookstores differ from chain bookstores and Amazon. Enjoy.
Brett Dickerson - Journalist - Editor
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