Dream Palace Books & Coffee

08/30/2025

Come join us next weekend for some great final deals w/ a pop-up Sunday. We’ll also be selling never before seen rare and signed stock for low prices.

07/20/2025

Join us for our last Listen, Please and the last day of Dream Palace Books & Coffee. 💗

07/08/2025

07/01/2025

We mourn the tragic loss of Kevin McKelvey. It was only a week ago I was sitting with .laker and she was singing his praises. He attended a few readings over the last year and it was such a joy to chat with him. He’s pictured above lecturing on publishing to high school students. (I took a group of HHS students to the first High School Literary Magazine Festival at in 2023.) While I’m incredibly sad about his passing, I’m so grateful, not only for his impact on the community of Indianapolis, his students, friends, and family, but the writing he left behind, so we may always return to him. Above, there’s an excerpt from an interview he did with and his poem Quarantine. Thank you, Kevin. You will always be remembered. ❤️

- Taylor

06/25/2025

✨new arrivals in between the glamorous lens of Cecil Beaton 🕊️

06/20/2025

NEXT SATURDAY launch w/ .laker and to celebrate the launch of THE MYSTERY OF PERCEPTION: A CONVERSATION WITH LYNNE TILLMAN.

A book length interview with Lynne Tillman, beloved icon of underground American literature, that spans memoir, scrapbook, cultural criticism, and history in a lively, compact package. Critic Taylor Lewandowski strings together her many lives and worlds, from a Long Island childhood, to her colorful Downtown NYC life in the 1970’s and 80’s, to her psychoanalytical fiction, to her historicizing New York City with Stephen Shore’s Factory photographs and Jeannette Watson’s Books & Co., to her “Madame Realism” art criticism.

Lynne Tillman has devoted her life to using language as a tool to synthesize the chaos of our world into intricate, fragmented pieces about perception, gender, photography, family, American history, and much more, and this pocket-size primer is a fascinating narrative unto itself that will be the jumping off point to her vast oeuvre from now on.

Anyone with a passing interest in 20th century culture will find fascinating her run-ins with the likes of Simone de Beauvoir, Méret Oppenheim, Charles Henri Ford, Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, John Cale, Paula Fox, Barbara Kruger and Kathy Acker, just to name a few. Her enthusiasm, curiosity, and humor serve as a refreshing model, or in her words, an “image” which has created an alternative path for writers. As she says in the interview, “I know myself in relation to others.” Featuring beautiful, full color photographs and contributions from Andrew Durbin, Emily LaBarge, and Claire Donato, this is the ideal introduction into the encyclopedic, obsessive mind of Lynne Tillman.

06/14/2025

BIG WEEKEND COMING UP! We have the infamous plus a book launch for ’s THE MYSTERY OF PERCEPTION + another amazing Listen, Please hosted by !

06/13/2025

☀️😎 Have you tried our Summer Drinks yet? Cool down with the BEACH BUNNY (Pineapple, Lychee, Sweetened Condensed Coconut Milk Shaken cold brew, garnished with fresh mint), relax with a 7/11 (Vanilla espresso soda made with your choice of Dr. Pepper or Diet Coke, garnished with a blood orange slice), and chill out with our classic Cherry Baby (Iced latte made with a tart cherry reduction, lemon and vanilla bean).

Don’t miss out on these limited concoctions made by the very best baristas in the city!!!!!

06/09/2025

This Sunday come join us for a really exciting group of writers from Chicago, South Bend, and Indianapolis. You will not want to miss this! 🔥🫶

06/07/2025

How excited are you over the Pacers miraculous win after win? We are! So we’re offering a special Game Day Deal: Buy One Latte and Get One Free ! 🏀💗

06/06/2025

Tonight! Come by for another wonderful poetry reading!