Independent booksellers received some love as Highbrow magazine featured its picks for "Top Literary Cities in the U.S.," noting that "a literary city is a blend of the historical, cultural and modern parts of literature, encouraging and inspiring future generations to appreciate and take part in the literary world."
The choices included Washington, D.C. ("The city boasts multiple bookstores--Politics & Prose being the most famous..."), San Francisco, Calif. ("the anchor of the literary scene in S.F. is still City Lights Bookstore"), Boston, Mass. (Grolier Poetry Book Shop and Lame Duck Books) and Portland, Ore. (Powell's City of Books).
