Iconic Local Bookstore Up For Sale

Politics and Prose, an independent local bookstore located near the intersection of Connecticut Avenue and Nebraska Avenue NW, is up for sale.

The Washington Post reports that owners Carla Cohen, who is seriously ill, and Barbara Mead, are ready to sell.

“It’s time for us to stop and let somebody else take over for the future,” Meade said in an interview with The Post. “I just don’t have the energy like I used to,” Cohen adds.

Politics and Prose, established in 1984, is one of DC’s independent bookstore that became a neighborhood institution over the years.Politics and Prose is a premier stop for top-shelf novelists like Salman Rushdie whenever he tours the country to promote a new book.