Interabang Books Opening in Dallas in May

In May, Nancy Perot, Jeremy Ellis and Lori Feathers plan to open Interabang Books in Dallas, Tex. The 5,000-square-foot store will carry more than 12,000 titles in a variety of categories, with a focus on fiction, children's books and creative nonfiction. The store will have a flexible event space with seating for up to 100 people and a children's stage for weekly story times and other programs. Interabang Books will be located at the corner of Preston Road and Royal Lane.

Interabang Books: Lori Feathers, Jeremy Ellis and Nancy Perot (photo: Jake Harris)

Ellis, a longtime independent bookseller and most recently general manager of Brazos Bookstore in Houston, will be general manager of Interabang Books. He began his career at Taylors Books in Dallas in 1994 and then was marketing director at BookPeople in Austin. He is currently a member of the board of directors for the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association.

Feathers will be the store's book buyer. A former corporate lawyer, she reviews books for several publications, is an assistant managing editor for Asymptote and serves on the Resident Reading Committee for Carve magazine. She is on the board of the National Book Critics Circle and is a judge for the 2017 Best Translated Book Award.

Perot, daughter of Ross Perot, has been imagining an independent bookstore in Dallas for more than 25 years. "Dallas is a very literary city and every great city needs great independent bookstores to enrich the community and support literacy efforts," she said. "If you are a book lover, nothing compares to the experience of being in a really wonderful bookstore. When Jeremy and I were introduced, everything just started falling into place as though it was meant to be."

Interabang Books' name comes from an old printmaker's term for a punctuation mark that combines a question mark and an exclamation point. "When we were discussing our vision for the store, 'discovery' and 'excitement' were words that came up again and again," Ellis said. "The interabang symbol exemplified our essential idea."

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