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...Magnificent and original” raves the Washington Post about Clarke’s debut novel, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, which has been both critically acclaimed and publicly adored. See her read from it at this event at the Harvard Book Store. Free and open to the public. Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. Harvard Book Store...
Whether the iconoclasm of the beat writers is consistent with shoplifting is a different matter. Lamphier notes that the store sells plenty of other books that are considered to be anti-establishment, but that none of these—not even Abbie Hoffman’s Steal This Book—are shoplifted as frequently as the works of Bukowski, Burroughs and Kerouac...
...Coop in Harvard Square has not noticed a disproportionate shoplifting rate among these authors, according to Frances DiBisceglia, floor manager of the book department. DiBisceglia cited music books as the most shoplifted items in the store. She also confessed, “Shoplifting is a potentially bigger problem than we’re willing to admit. It’s an easy store to shoplift from because there are so many entrances and exits...
...store purports to specialize in revolutionary theory (hence the name), in keeping with the tenets of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, whose members comprise its staff. But when it comes to stocking the shelves, the store’s managers seem to be seeking a diversity of views, from the left (Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky) to the far left. You can’t get far into the store without running across the polemical prose of Bob Avakian, chairman of “The Party,” as members call the organization. Chairman Avakian is also...
With parallel shops set up throughout the country, Revolution Books is something of a chain—but you didn’t hear that from us. At heart, the store is profoundly un-capitalist. It’s so un-capitalist, in fact, that its staff members don’t get paid at all. Sales only generate half of the store’s operating costs, and it relies on donations from communist sympathizers nationwide to make up for the rest, O’Leary explains. He says the store’s mission is to help sustain...