December 18, 2009 by lizhumes
Liz talks with Kelly Justice, owner of Fountain Bookstore and Ward Tefft, owner of Chop Suey Tuey about the year in books… the book business… and the future of independent bookselling.
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December 11, 2009 by lizhumes
“For generations, Abigail Adams’s words — in particular her famous “Remember the Ladies” letter of March 31, 1776 — have inspired women seeking equity in the workplace, before the law, and within their own families. Yet they have always been mere words, and skeptics have emphasized that the only place she ever dared to utter them was in confidential letters to her husband. But the skeptics are wrong.”
- from Abigail Adams
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December 4, 2009 by lizhumes
“But this group, our group, wanted nothing to do with money, the whiff of which had, they thought, spoiled their brash bourgeois parents and aunts and uncles, all of whom were, inevitably, doctors or lawyers or businessmen or sometimes teachers, and none of whom had read Sentimental Education or could identify the term “deconstruction” or made regular visits to the theater, except, perhaps, to see musicals or Neil Simon comedies. They — the adults — were too corrupted, too swayed and jaded by the difficulties and practicalities of adulthood, by the banal labyrinths of health insurance and Roth IRAs, by the relative safety of Volvo versus Saab versus Subaru, or flat Scottish cashmere versus the newer, softer, fluffier — but possibly less durable — stuff, imported from Nepal, that Neiman’s is carrying lately.”
- from A Fortunate Age
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