RVANews.com has an article this week on special libraries around town. It includes a profile on Oregon Hill’s Flying Brick Library:

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Free
Circulating
All about radical topics
Find the library online
Find the library in person: 506 S. Pine St.
Allison Self, one of the Flying Brick volunteers and someone who has lived in the library house, chatted with me when I went to visit the collection. A cozy green flowered couch graces one corner of the room, there are shelves all the way up to the ceiling on multiple walls, and the collection of over one thousand zines is displayed in one corner. “I like all of it…the zines are my favorites when it comes down to it,” Allison said after hemming and hawing over what her favorite item in the collection might be, adding, “We also have a really good collection of books on women’s health.”

To my query about what makes the Flying Brick library stand out (aside from its name), Allison explained that the books are “more radical leftist.” The library has been around in various forms for quite some time, originating with the General Strike Collective.