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Even outside of Harvard, it is unnecessary to chase memories that are attached to buildings and booze cruises. According to Psychology Professor Daniel T. Gilbert, Americans don’t need to long for places associated with their memories, because those places are everywhere. With every corporate coffee shop that we see, we can remember that special date or that productive thesis meeting. According to Gilbert, “When the industrial smoothing of our nation’s once-variegated edges has been fully accomplished, Americans…will be marinating in memories that happened everywhere but not somewhere...
Menkiti says he wants to stick with his little poetry shop, regardless of the difficulties of keeping it financially afloat...
Originally a subsidiary of The Boston Globe, the Globe Corner Bookstore’s first incarnation was in downtown Boston in 1982, Patrick Carrier says. At that time, the quaint shop specialized in books about New England and was a featured stop on the Freedom Trail...
Ifeanyi A. Menkiti, born in Nigeria and now a professor of philosophy at Wellesley, is the owner of the oft-overlooked Grolier Poetry Book Shop, nestled behind the more prominent Harvard Bookstore...
Menkiti, who can sometimes be spotted walking slowly down Plympton Street with a Dunkin’ Donuts coffee in hand, relies on his work at Wellesley to support his store. He is the first owner of Grolier to hire vendors to man the shop, he says, and his wife also stops by in the mornings to check on the shop...