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...only to the Square's street musicians. Reading International, on the corner of Church and Brattle Sts., is open from 8:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. (even later on weekend nights) or, in the words of one saleswoman, "just about whenever you want." A good thing, too, since this bookshop hosts an interesting mix of scholarly and popular books, periodicals and inexpensive classical records, while messaging your ears with jazz...
...goes to the Bookcase and the Starr Book Shop (in the shadow of the crane at the corner of Plympton and Mt Auburn Sts) whose stacks of dusty old books will keep you entranced (and perhaps sneezing) for hours. More pristine but not less interesting is the scholarly Pangloss Bookshop on Mass Ave. a haven for would be academics brimming over with learned tomes and obscure journals All three stores are excellent for aimless browsing frustrating for very targeted book searches...
...rare first volume, Harmonium, $2 when published in 1923, can bring $800. The far more recent works of John Updike, John Cheever and Saul Bellow have done nearly as well. Some sharp collectors bought John Gardner's first novel, The Resurrection (1972), for cut-rate prices on bookshop remainder tables after the author's Grendel gained a national reputation. Current worth for a mint copy...
...stake." Nonetheless, his court-appointed attorney entered a plea of not guilty on the ground that Islambuli did not feel that he had committed a crime. Charged with murder are Islambuli and three other defendants alleged to have been on the hit team: an engineer, the owner of a bookshop, and a reserve army sergeant who had won an award for marksmanship. Also on trial were 20 other Muslim fundamentalists, who are charged in a 754-page indictment with offenses that include conspiracy and providing weapons for the plotters...
...intermission the audience streams out of the Opera House into afternoon sunlight. If you stroll through the center of the village, past the New Leaf Bookshop, over the bridge above Goose River, you come to a gray colonial across the street from Enos Ingraham's general store. This is the home of David Outerbridge, an independent publisher and organizer of the festival. In the Outerbridge living room, half a dozen off-duty storytellers talk about their calling with nearly the same pleasure that they tell stories...