Two Dollar Radio Headquarters » Independent Bookstore Directory

Two Dollar Radio Headquarters (HQ), a locally owned and operated family-run shop, is an indie bookstore, performance space, bar, coffeehouse, and fully vegan café located on South Side of Columbus, Ohio. Our family-friendly space offers plenty of comfy seating as well as a dedicated kids’ corner with a rug, small chairs and table, coloring activities, books for playing with, and rotating toys. We also have stacks of board games, cards, and puzzles available for use.

As a bookshop, we carry an exciting, carefully curated list of titles almost exclusively devoted to independently published literature. Our bar serves cocktails, wine, and draft beer, and our café serves locally roasted coffee, house-made vegan meats and cheeses, sandwiches, salads, pizzas, dips, and more. Our performance space features a wide range of offerings from panel discussions, local and touring author readings, musicians, magicians, trivia, themed storytelling, poetry open mics, and more! Read more about us here.

Store Hours

Street Parking

There is free public street parking on all surrounding streets, on both sides of Parsons Ave.

Lot Parking

The Columbus Metropolitan Library across the street (1113 Parsons Ave) has generously allowed our use of their parking lot.

Bike Parking

We have a bike rack on the corner of Cline and Parsons, and the library has bike parking (across Parsons).

Brett Gregory, Eliza Wood-Obenauf, & Eric Obenauf

CO-OWNERS

Two Dollar Radio Headquarters is the brick-and-mortar of indie publisher Two Dollar Radio. Two Dollar Radio was founded in 2005 by Eric Obenauf and Eliza Wood-Obenauf, a husband-and-wife team with a love of books.

The original impetus to start our own indie book publishing company, fresh out of college, came on the heels of reading Andre Schiffrin’s The Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read.

Since then, we’ve published 5-6 books each year, some of which have been turned into films, honored by the National Book Foundation, finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, picked as “Editors’ Choice” selections by The New York Times Book Review, and made year-end best-of lists at O, The Oprah Magazine, NPR, The Washington Post, Slate, Salon, The Believer, Chicago Tribune, Rolling Stone, San Francisco Chronicle, and others.