If you’ve come to Buffalo Street Books this summer, you’ve noticed a dramatic change. The big room adjacent to the store which has been vacant for years is undergoing a renovation. We’ve got saturated blue walls and a new floor with a swooshy, curved pathway guiding people from the interior of the Dewitt Mall through the room and into the bookstore. Soon we’ll have new furniture: tables and chairs and comfy seats. This is something our bookstore community has talked about for a long time and it is now coming to pass. Our owners and customers and friends swiftly responded to our fundraising this spring and we exceeded our goal of $25,000, which surely means that everyone could easily see the need for this project. So in this newsletter, I’d like to talk about the bookstore as a third place. Zadie Smith will make a surprise contribution to my meandering argument.
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