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Homeless bookseller in Boston closing “bookstore”

By biblio | April 2, 2009

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A very sad, but moving tale in yesterday’s Boston Globe, about the trials and tribulations of Boston Square’s “homeless bookseller”.

Fully appreciate the quote at the end of the article:

I come by here every day, and it (the bookstall) redeems my visit to a part of Cambridge that is becoming increasingly colorless, faceless, and franchised.

If only the faceless epidemic were quarantined in Cambridge….  Personally, I’d rather live in a city full of the homeless, than of the faceless.

Topics: Bookselling | 2 Comments »

2 Responses to “Homeless bookseller in Boston closing “bookstore””

  1. tj Says:
    December 1st, 2010 at 3:33 pm

    wheres the article at? this is the second I have found missing… hmm.

  2. tj Says:
    December 1st, 2010 at 3:34 pm

    ahh its just a link. ok NM

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