Garnet & Black Summer 2020

“In a town with a literary community as small as Columbia, each individual walking through the Arcade Mall might make a difference in Odd Bird’s future.”

“Sometimes I get super optimistic, that I can grow a lot, then I think it might be the dumbest idea, like a Titanic kind of idea, where ten years from now I’m like ‘why did I get greedy like that?’ Growing could be cool, but maybe this is the future of bookstores, because I’ve seen a lot of smaller bookstores, before I opened this, which encouraged me to think that this was a viable option.”

This profile does have an imperative: support your local bookstore. Support Odd Bird Books. Or it might disappear on the same whirlwind it caught into town. In a town with a literary community as small as Columbia, each individual walking through the Arcade Mall might make a difference in Odd Bird’s future.

In Adams’ view, nothing is certain. He feels lucky to have made it this far.

“My pie-in-the-sky, ten-year plan is to have a sign hanging over the door. I’m just taking it one day at a time.”

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