Unpacking the Bookstore

A Place for the POTUS

I have always been a sucker for alliteration, especially when it's tactful. That being said, I find the name of Washington, D.C.'s preeminent independent bookstore, Politics & Prose, particularly pleasant to pronounce. But this name serves a much more...

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| Feb 5, 2016

Shakespeare and Company: A Novel in Three Words

"I may disappear leaving behind me no worldly possessions - just a few old socks and love letters, and my windows overlooking Notre-Dame for all of you to enjoy, and my little rag and bone shop of the heart whose motto is 'Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they...

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| Nov 15, 2013