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Reposted from Hyperallergic: The Last Gasps of Rizzoli Bookstore

I found reading the following post from the site Hyperallergic: Sensitive to Art and its Discontents really both frustrating because of the plight of bookshops in recent years, but reassuring in that the folk who staff, shop in, and even just hang around in such important repositories of cultural lore are protesting, and also writing such lively responses, even though it seems (not even) a pyrrhic victory for the staff to swill champagne bought by the corporate beast on the final night of Rizzoli books' existence and toast their malfeasance, as Samuel Cooper writes here: "Cathartic. But ineffective. Evil wins again."

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PostedApril 18, 2014
AuthorMartinPatrick
TagsBOOKSHOPS, NYC, RIZZOLI, HYPERALLERGIC

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