Scott Seeley, co-owner of the Writer's Block bookstore in downtown Las Vegas, was interviewed by the city's blog. Among our favorite exchanges: 
In addition to books you offer imported toys, stationary, artificial bird adoption, writing workshops, and more. How would you define the Writer's Block?
We represent a hub for the literary community here. By having Codex [the Writers' studio space] in the back, not only are we bringing in new readers of all ages, they have to come through a bookstore to get to the space. There's sort of a shared synchronicity of providing a space for readers and also supporting local writers.
How is the Writer's Block different from the average bookstore?
Coming out of my background of creating retail spaces that are unusual, like a superhero store or a time travel store, I wanted something that was creative yet a little more traditional. I often hear people say that this looks like everyone's dream of what an independent bookstore would look like. Then there are little germs of things that bring in that physicality I was talking about. There's a feeling of being in a barn and there's the letterpress and tools. I remember being a kid and playing with cookie-cutters, creating narratives, which is storytelling. So, we sell cookie-cutters. We try to incorporate little objects that have a narrative quality to them. We need to have our own personality to compete with Barnes & Noble and the chains. We want things that you can literally not get anywhere but in this store, and we like that because it adds to the experience. Some of our books you can buy at Target, but Target doesn't look like this or feel like this.
