Bookpocalypse 2009: Twenty-Third Avenue Books "In the Process" of Closing Shop

The window sign now seems ironic on several levels.

If the locked doors on a Friday lunch hour weren't signal enough, a manager of Twenty-Third Avenue Avenue Books confirmed this afternoon that the Northwest Portland independent bookstore is closing. "We're in the process," she said, removing several days' worth of FedEx missed-delivery stickers from the store's front door.

I told her I was sorry to hear it. "Me too," she said.