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May 21, 2007: New York's Strand Bookstore Featured in Kashmir Press
"Instead, as a premonition of what is to come, even the intersection of Broadway and 12th Street is liberally strewn with metal carts of $1- and 50-cent books. No beady-eyed staffers loiter about to make sure you don’t nip off with a crumbling paperback, so the conviction in individual honesty seems touching. On the other hand, if I had 18 miles of books, I’d probably have to lodge some of them on the street too. "
