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Richard Crowley, a bookseller in the Paperback Booksmith shop on Brattle Street, says that the store continues to sell "a lot of intellectual stuff, but the interest in political philosophy of a few years ago has disappeared...
According to Crowley, the latest mover at the Paperback Booksmith, aside from "Humboldt's Gift" by Nobel laureate Saul Bellow, has been a book titled the "Cat Catalogue" by Judy Fireman. "I guess it is about everything you always wanted to know about cats," Crowley says. "I don't know why it's so popular. I haven't read it, but I suppose you'd have to say people like cats. We can't keep enough of the books on the table...
Employees at the Harvard Square branch of the store honored the picket lines although they were not involved in the contract dispute. Paul Ohrans, vice-president for operations of Paperback Booksmith manned the store with other managers during the strike...
Picketing ended at Paperback Booksmith yesterday, as workers approved a three-year contract with Learning Resources Incorporated (LRI), the parent company of the store...
District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America went on strike yesterday against Learning Resources Incorporated (LRI), the company that owns Paperback Booksmith, after contract negotiations broke down Tuesday night, a member of the worker's negotiating committee said yesterday...