Finding love in bookstores: an eyewitness account.

Several years ago, when I was not a bookstore employee but merely a regular customer, I wrote up BookCourt, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn, for the Village Voice's Best of New York. My entry posited, though I had no evidence to support it, that single people claimed the bookstore was good for finding romance.[more ...] Continue reading at 'Slate'

[ Slate | 2011-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The New York Times | 2011-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2011-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2011-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Publishers Weekly | 2011-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2011-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ AllThingsD | 2011-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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