Permian Basin Pages

Permian Basin Pages brought independent bookselling back to downtown Midland in 2015, filling a void in a region better known for oil derricks than literary culture. Founded by a petroleum engineer turned English teacher, the store bridges the worlds of industry and imagination with equal respect for both. The geology and petroleum section is genuinely useful to the working professionals who populate Midland's energy corridor, while the fiction shelves carry an impressively deep selection of Western and contemporary literary novels. The children's section is designed to serve the young families who have poured into the Permian Basin during successive oil booms, and the cafe's strong black coffee fuels both roughnecks coming off night shifts and retirees settling in for a morning of reading. Against the flat, sun-bleached landscape of West Texas, the store stands as proof that literature thrives even in the most unexpected places.