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Is it about the classics or the cappuccino at newest Barnes & Noble?

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From: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
Date: 20050610
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Byline: Julia Keller

Jun. 10--He looks a little restless. Confused, even. Maybe slightly irked.

Geoffrey Chaucer -- not his perishable flesh, you understand, but that portion of his eternal spirit currently imprisoned in print -- casts a suspicious eye upon the bookcase in front of him.

Just across the short space from the section marked "Poetry" in the new Barnes & Noble at 1 E. Jackson Blvd. is a section labeled "Film/TV/Radio/Video." Thus poets who delivered to the world their fierce and gorgeous storm of song are required to make nice with "TV Guide Film & Video ...

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