Word: grolier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to being named a Guggenheim fellow in painting, Phipps also won the Grolier poetry prize...
...tower of books seems too daunting), you've come to the right city; Cambridge is the proud home to dozens of eclectic bookstores. For the best variety, try either Wordsworth or the Harvard Bookstore (used books in the basement for 50percent off), although the specialty bookshops,like the Grolier Poetry Bookstore on Plympton St.,are also worth exploring...
Around the corner, the Grolier Poetry Book Shop provides a taste of elusive bohemia. The tiny room, crowded with tall shelves and nothing but poetry serve as welcome antidotes to the Disney-fied independence of the Harvard Bookstore. Plus, Grolier never opens before noon--no true bohemian book-store does mornings...
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...
...After Grolier and Starr, any other bookstore (conventional or no) in Harvard Square would be anticlimactic, but Schoenhof's Foreign Books really disappoints. Its bright blue carpet and uniformly shiny particle board shelves scream expense. To its credit, it does stock books in languages ranging from French to Cornish and Babylonian. Unfortunately, at Harvard, the romance of the other is often translated into pretension rather than unconventionality. As Elizabeth C. Oelsner '00, who spends entirely too much time in the Schoenhof's building, comments, "Foreign books are nicer. They're pretty. They're small. They're expensive," none of which...