Another independent gone

[jmc_bks]

Olsson's, a local chain of independent bookstores, has closed its doors. I used to be a semi-regular patron of the store in Penn Quarter, back when the office was located a block away. When we moved? Eh, not so much unless I happened to be over that way for something else, usually happy hour or the theater. When Olsson's was nearby, I patronized because it was convenient to walk over on my lunch break, but their selection of fiction was light on the popular fiction and heavy on the literary fiction, and the staff was...not particularly genre friendly. I don't just mean toward genre romance but toward any genre fiction. Still, I'm sorry to see a local bookseller go under.