"NORTHPORT — Used bookstores are the cozy corners of the literary world — the places where famous and not-so-famous writers mingle democratically, in angled piles on table tops, along worn shelves, in stacks leaning against walls already lined with books."

"They are the places of dusty, pulpy smells and creaking floors and little sales counters tucked between books, as if in these places the object isn't really money, but thoughts and words. "

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