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From: Oakland Tribune
Date: 20060604
Author:Column by Sumana Harihareswara

DOES clerking at a bookstore even count as a blue-collar job?

Well, I belonged to a union, and I punched a time clock. But I had to take a book-knowledge test to get that job at Cody's on Telegraph, the best bookstore in Berkeley.

I had to know Andy Goldsworthy from John Galsworthy; if a customer asked for that artist who worked in nature, in ephemera, deliberately setting up sculptures to decay and erode, I knew she wanted Goldsworthy. "Rivers & Tides," the documentary about him, was hot in 2002.

As my time at Cody's progressed, I wanted to bleach my collar white. I wanted a job that could ...

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