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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...famous Reading International on Brattle St., on the corner of Church St., is better if you're looking for magazines and journals rather than for books. Whatever you can't buy in the Square Kiosk or Nini's Corner can usually be found there...
Those interested in the deeper and darker--and older--side of things will like the Starr Bookstore on Plympton St. It's one of those places that you stroll into, perhaps in search of an obscure, out-of-print copy of The Scarlet Letter. When you walk in the door, your first glance will tell you that you will never be able to find it; amazingly enough, however, the salespeople there usually seem to know off the top of their heads if they have what you want, and they are extraordinarily nice about helping you. The store is very crowded...
...more specialized tastes, Cambridge isn't rich in offerings. Temple Bar on Boylston St. seems to have a better collection of photography books than anywhere else; if you're looking for some good feminist literature or poetry, the Grolier Bookstore, a quaint little shop on Plympton St. (right next to Harvard Bookstore) should help. Sometimes, in fact, you can find someone like Adrien Rich there discussing her books with old friends. Of course, sometimes you can't too. And for really obscure stuff, there's this guy who sits in the Cafe Pamplona with an assortment of books...
Chinatown, featuring fine food at generally low prices, is only a few blocks from the Essex subway station; if you want to avoid walking through the sleazy Combat Zone, however, you should take the subway only as far as the Washington St. station and then loop around the Zone to get to Chinatown...
...more exotic European fare at moderate prices, you might try Grendel's Den, on Boylston St., and the Blue Parrot, Mt. Auburn St. And then, of course, there are the more specialized restaurants--Ahmed's (next to the Galeria) for French-Moroccan food, Brazilia (one of the better small eateries along Boylston St.), and the Hungry Persian (Eliot St...