Thursday, February 2, 2012

Quote of the Day (Leon Wieseltier, on Disappearing Book- and Record Stores)


“The commerce of culture is a trade in ideals of beauty, goodness, and truth. A hunger for profit exploits a hunger for meaning. If the one gets too ravenous, the other may find it harder to subsist. The disappearance of our bookstores and our record stores constitutes one of the great self-inflicted wounds of this wounding time.”— Leon Wieseltier, “Washington Diarist: Going to Melody,” The New Republic, February 2, 2012
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betsy said...

A friend of mine went to a bookclub meeting at Parnassas, the only new bookstore in Nashville. "I took notes on books that looked interesting ", she told me, "Then I went home and ordered them on Amazon for half of what I would have paid at Parnassas".
She is not alone-

February 2, 2012 at 2:56 AM

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