I mourn for Books & Company and Thackeray's, both wonderful Ohio bookstores (the former was the largest independent bookstore in Ohio, in its time), both pushed out and gone now. :(
Along with serious and necessary stuff like Transgender Remembrance Day, I'd like to have Bookstore Remembrance Day: 8th Street, Cody's, Brentano's, Stacie's...
Hey, I'll be first in line to say that intellectual freedom and exploration should be right up there in the Revolution's priorities. Some of these places have been, for their communities, the *only* source of information about sexuality, race, and other stuff. Information and activism go hand-in-hand...not to mention the necessary refreshment of the soul that fiction, poetry, and other entertainment stuff gives.
Ironically, it was independent bookstores (not that I've been in the really great ones, but still) as well as libraries that taught me to be crazy-passionate about librarianship. Now, librarians are told that sub-par chain bookstores are what we should emulate, which as you know makes my hair bleed; but I can't help thinking that a really good library and a really good *independent* bookstore are very similar places.
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Date: 2010-11-21 02:20 pm (UTC)I mourn for Books & Company and Thackeray's, both wonderful Ohio bookstores (the former was the largest independent bookstore in Ohio, in its time), both pushed out and gone now. :(
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Date: 2010-11-21 03:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-21 04:14 pm (UTC)Ironically, it was independent bookstores (not that I've been in the really great ones, but still) as well as libraries that taught me to be crazy-passionate about librarianship. Now, librarians are told that sub-par chain bookstores are what we should emulate, which as you know makes my hair bleed; but I can't help thinking that a really good library and a really good *independent* bookstore are very similar places.