This is the saddest indie-bookseller story that I’ve heard in this down economy. I bought my copy of UKL’s Lavinia there, and saw UKL read in the store’s back garden. I also bought Ian McEwan’s Saturday here, and a new copy of Farenheit 451.
(From Publishers Marketplace)
Portland, OR-area bookseller Stephanie Griffin closed her store Twenty-third Avenue Books in January and then became homeless. “Startled neighbors discovered this in June” as “Griffin had started panhandling outside her old store,” Willamette Week writes. Neighbors have set up a relief fund:
Donations can be made to Stephanie Griffin Fund, c/o Glenda Magistrale, Consolidated Federal Credit Union, 2021 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland, OR 97232.
