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Saying Goodbye to Main Street Books
Dear Main Street Books Friends and Family, I'm writing you today with sad news: the owner of the bookstore, John Fernyak, has decided it's time to close Main Street Books' doors permanently. Our last day will be Saturday, September 26. As the manager for over nine...
The Grinch Who Left Christmas Where She Found It
Historically, I’ve been something of a Grinch about Christmas. This is not to say that I actively try to deny people the holiday — no ornaments up my sleeves, no roast beast in my bag — but I have been known to, passive aggressively, make the holiday a miserable experience for those around me.
Sad News for Mansfield’s Literary Community
It is with great sorrow that I must relay news of the death of one of the bookstore’s most loyal customers.
The Giving Tree
I wanted Stuff as much as any other kid, but this feeling — deep and yet ephemeral — felt more important and bigger and much more adult than opening up that remote controlled truck I wanted so badly.
Community Defined
It is fitting then, that on the anniversary of the day my brief tenure in New York began to collapse, I am featured in a short film about my hometown’s downtown revival.
Thoughts on Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
I wouldn’t call this a true review, just some thoughts and reflections I’ve been mulling over in the weeks since I read the advanced reading copy that came to me at the bookstore.
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