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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...
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...
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...
Schoenhof's lies nestled in the basement of a old-styled, brick building on Mount Auburn Street. Reference books in 300 different languages and works of literature in 30 languages spill over from ceiling high shelves packed into the small store.
Leyenson says many of the French speakers who frequent the bookstore are Haitian, adding that many Russian immigrants browse through the shelves of Russian literature flanking the back wall of the store.