If you haven't stepped into Portland's Powell's Books, I'm sorry, but you really haven't stepped into a proper bookstore. The place is Amazing, capital A. Poets & Writers Magazine took a step inside and filed this report.
From the long story in which Mr. Powell himself is interviewed...
Few independent bookstores are more iconic than Powell's Books. Even readers who've never been to Portland, Oregon, know about the store from its ads in places like the New Yorker, or from its prominent online presence, or from its reputation as the largest new- and used-book store in the world. The "City of Books," as the four-story flagship store on West Burnside is known, occupies an entire city block, and carries more than one million books. The sixty-eight-thousand-square-foot space is divided into nine color-coded rooms, which together house more than 3,500 sections. From the moment you walk in, it feels as if you could find anything there.
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