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Late in the afternoon at the Grolier Poetry Bookshop on Plympton Street, a little white dog named Jessie greets customers searching for an elusive volume of Blake or perhaps Neruda. Unlike the previous generation of Grolier customers, these come to buy, not to hang out, in the crowded little shop...
...victim of this vulnerability may be theGrolier Poetry Bookshop. A string of thefts in thepast year have left it unstable financially...
...mail, can keep in touch with her friend in Nairobi, there is someone else who, thanks to e-mail, talks to his roommate over the computer instead of face-to-face, or who buys books at Amazon.com instead of from the funny old man at the corner bookshop. Even stalkers don't bother to go to the object of their infatuation's house anymore. Why get dirty rifling through someone's garbage when you can monitor her e-mail activity instead...
Further along Plympton Street sits another such bookselling outpost. The Starr Bookshop, tucked into the belly of the Lampoon Castle. Starr sells used books exclusively, which merits distinction among poor starving artists that even Grolier doesn't garner. Unlike fellow Mclntyre and Moore Booksellers (just down Mount Auburn Street), Starr has atmosphere. Mclntyre's white linoleum floors can in no way measure up to Starr's patterned brick, and though both stores have overflowing shelves, only Starr's sag gracefully. Both have exposed pipes, but only Starr's are copper; poor starving artists are still artists, after...
...Grolier Poetry Bookshop, along with Adams House, co-sponsored the reading Tuesday night...