Independent bookshop · Marana, Arizona
More books, in more hands.
Second chances for perfectly good books.
Independent bookshop · Marana, Arizona
Second chances for perfectly good books.
The two of us
We’re Travis and James.
Two husbands and two dads from Marana, Arizona. Travis is a pharmacist here in town. James is an American Sign Language interpreter. Errata is queer-owned and veteran-owned.
Between the two of us the shelves run from epic fantasy and space opera to true crime and psychological thrillers.
Neither of us has ever run a bookstore. What we’ve got is a town without one, and we’re too stubborn to leave it that way. So we’re starting here, a box of books at a time.
What we’re building
Marana doesn’t have an independent bookstore.
What we’re saving for is a real room: shelves worth browsing, coffee, poetry nights and open mics, doors open past seven in a town where everything closes at seven, and somewhere for kids to land after school.
Marana takes its name from maraña, for the mesquite thickets railroad workers were clearing here in 1880. People have lived here continuously for about 4,200 years. During World War II it was the largest pilot training base in the world, with 10,000 flyers trained here. The town incorporated in 1977 with 1,500 residents. Today it has more than 60,000.
The name
The list of mistakes found in a book after it has already gone to press. Traditionally printed on a slip tucked inside the cover, or on a page at the very back.
The slip is a real object. Someone catches the mistake after the run is printed, sets the correction, runs it off on a loose sheet, and tucks it into the cover by hand. Nobody pulps the books; they go out with the apology tucked inside.
We took the name from that: a flawed copy is still worth putting in someone’s hands. We think so too.
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The money ProseRadar brings in is how we’re working toward a brick-and-mortar bookstore in Marana, Arizona.