Maple Street Bookshop

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In 1965, sisters Rhoda Norman and Mary Kellogg opened the Maple Street Bookshop, the first in New Orleans to specialize in paperback books. As Tess Crager's Basement Bookshop had been in the 1930s and 1940s, the Maple Street in the 1960s became a bastion of left wing and avant-garde activity in a largely-conservative New Orleans.

The shop’s friends and patrons have included Walker Percy, Ellen Gilchrist, Tom Dent, and many others. Mary Kellogg’s daughter, Rhoda Faust, later took over the shop and ran it for more than thirty years with the help of Christine Wiltz and Ricky Coxe. The location was later comprised of two shops—a used shop and a new shop—side by side in 19th-century Victorian houses. The changed hands several times and ultimately closed in 2017, with the owner Gladin Scott citing competition from online retailers.