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'''Subterranean Books''' is was a bookstore located at 9 East [[Gregory Street]] , owned by [[Paul Williams]]. The store opened in [[March 11, 1997]]{{date uncertain}} at 4113 [[Barrancas Avenue]] and moved to its current a [[Downtown Pensacola|downtown]] location on [[October 7]], [[2000]]. The store offers offered a selection of new and used books and specializes , as well as a limited selection of mostly used vinyl records. Subterranean Books specialised in alternative literature and poetry. In its time, the store featured readings by Tom Franklin and Michelle Tea. Thurston Moore, of Sonic Youth, visited the store a number of times while on vacation. John Sledge, book coloumnist for the Mobile Press Regsiter, said that the store had "the best collection of poetry this side of New Orleans."  Sadly, the bookstore closed suddenly in late September 2007. For several years, it has Subterranean Books also operated the Subterranean Prison Book Project, a volunteer program to send books to Florida prison inmates.<ref>"Volunteers helping inmates turn a page." ''Pensacola News Journal'', June 16, 2005.</ref>  

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