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One of life's necessities; a bookstore with personality. (bookstores in small towns)

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From: Commonweal
Date: 19971107
Author:Garvey, John

Shadid's, a small and independent bookstore, has given way to the success of publishing chains. These chains benefit small publishers, provide convenience, and make available a wide selection of reading materials even as they endanger the independence of writers and booksellers.

When I was a lonely, strange adolescent (is there any other kind?), a few things saved me. One was the fiction of Sherwood Anderson, a respected but still underappreciated writer. His Winesburg, Ohio showed that there were stories all around me in a middle-sized Midwestern town. Life wasn't only elsewhere, after ...

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