Saturday night and the Mission was seriously hopping for Lit Crawl, with every available bar, coffee shop, and store front packed to the gills with the lit faithful listening to writers read their work. I made my first stop 312 Valenica, a space you might normally know as Mina Dresden Gallery but for the month of October occupied instead by a pop-up used book store called Scanners. The Cronenberg reference is intentional I'm sure, especially considering there are entire sections inside the shop devoted to science fiction and counterculture. Curated by Matt Barruso and Nick Hoff, Scanners deals with everything from the decline of the book in the age of the iPad to the struggle of actual used book stores to stay afloat. The shop is hosting a number of events, including a conversation with Tanya Hollis and Rick Prelinger tomorrow night about the future of the archive and a discussion about artist source material at the end of the month courtesy of D-L Alvarez and Colter Jacobsen. It's also just a really fun space to browse, and everything on the shelves is indeed for sale.
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