(216) 321-2665
1820 Coventry Rd
Cleveland,
OH
44118
41.5101
-81.5803
Neighborhood: Cleveland Heights
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11/05/05
Beloved Coventry mainstay by Bart M. at InsiderPages
Contributor at Insider Pages
Macs is a decades-old independent bookseller that has become a Coventry institution. Its three cozy floors of dusty used books provides hours of fun for book lovers. Macs also offers a small section of new books and a well-chosen selection of thoughtful and intelligent magazines, both widely known selections and lesser-known ones. Its very easy to browse in Macs and come out having learned something. Macs also hosts frequent readings by local and national authors.
A must for both bibliophiles and starving students who don't want to pay a lot for their Henry James.
by Contributor at Citysearch
Reading List
Mac's Backs features three floors of about 50,000 used and new books, with the top level devoted entirely to science-fiction, fantasy and horror. In addition, the management keeps the place stocked with the latest small-press sensations, reprints, zines and chapbooks.
More Than Books
Mac's also hosts author visits, readings and poetry slams. The savvy staff can order just about anything in print, but that's not why people patronize Mac's Backs. They come to find out what's just washed up on the shelves, a fascinating and fluctuating inventory that's the result of the store's popular trade-in policy on used (and rare) literature.
The History
"Mac" is founder and co-owner James McSherry. While a law student in the early 1980s, he opened the original Mac's Backs Paperback exchange, a tiny nook of a store in Chagrin Falls.
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