/lit/ - Literature

>20
>Miami
>The Architecture of Happiness, How Architecture Works, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Experiencing Architecture, Don Quixote, and the Bridge of San Luis Rey

>>6929916
Books and Books in Miami Beach or Coral Gables is pretty good. Across from the Books and Books in CG is a vintage bookshop, as well. It's on the corner of Aragon and whatever the western N/S cross-street is, in that 1920s commercial building. There's also the Bookstore in the Grove (Coconut Grove). I do understand your feeling, though--there's very few good bookstores around besides, I'd say, Books and Books. Everybody else has gone out of business. Same goes for record stores (though there's one exceptional one in Olympia Heights). There's not even a specialty audio place in all of Miami, which is unbelievable. There used to be a plethora of this stuff in Coconut Grove, but it's all disappeared due to carpetbagging New Yorkers and South Americans that think, "Oh, this is Miami! There's mansions everywhere! We should charge $20,000 a month for this small commercial space that cost that much to build!" Thusly, all the small, artsy, hole-in-the-wall shops and watering holes have been cast to oblivion. I just moved to Coconut Grove from another part of Florida and it is very disheartening to see how little is left from the artsy days of the Grove.