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...Coop, the three-level bureaucratic hell that has a monopoly on textbooks, is a common source of student complaint. But only the top level (where the textbooks are shelved) is a disorganized mess. The other two floors have a selection comparable to a typical mall bookshop, with sizable collections of children's books and travel books. The hardcover collection takes up most of the first level, with a somewhat smaller selection of paperbacks upstairs. The poetry selection is excellent...
What Kevin calls "the failure of Harvard to provide a community of writers" compelled him to join the Dark Room. He met Thomas Ellis in the Grolier Bookshop, and Ellis and Ellis introduced Kevin to the group after reading some of Kevin's poetry. Kevin states that mission of the Dark Room is to create a community "to help young writers while honoring our living ancestors." In connection with the Dark Room, Kevin has repeatedly travelled to New York where he read at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the St. Mark's Poetry Project, and mosaic-Books. "I can leave Harvard...
...paring its payroll of 27,000 by 14% this year, it is also offering 10-year loans to laid-off workers who want to go into business. Since the program began last January, the TVA has reviewed 22 applications and approved three: a dry-cleaning operation, a Christian bookshop and a home- improvement store. Cathy and Malcolm Phillips, a married couple who both worked as nuclear technicians until they were laid off last month, took out a $49,000 loan to open the home center, using its inventory as collateral. Says Cathy: "It's a come-around-once opportunity...
...France, another restaurant, used to occupy the site of the new Au Bon Pain, but shut down a few months ago after its lease expired and its rent increased dramatically. A similar rent hike led to the closing of the Penguin Bookshop, located in the same building...
Somewhat smaller but more sophisticated is Pangloss Bookshop at 65 Mt. Auburn St., specializing in hardcover non-fiction. Pangloss's academic offerings, although a bit pricey, attract Cambridge's intellectual elite, and have made the store a favorite among Harvard faculty members...