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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...issue is, How well can anyone ever know another person," Bradley asks, "if they only know that person in a public context?" We're sitting on the second floor of a cheerful bookshop in North Conway, N.H., sparring about the politician's obligation to reveal himself. Though Bradley's speeches trumpet bits of his glittering biography, he hates surrendering his story to others--especially to reporters who, he feels, take "snippets" and use them to draw wild conclusions. I ask if people have a right to learn about those who would be President. "That's more so today than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of Being Bradley | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...Waterstone's in Birmingham, it was in a cage guarded by two mannequins dressed like Men in Black. At Blackwell's Children's Bookshop in Oxford, the staff tried chaining it up in the window for a few days, but kids kept borrowing stools and climbing in for a peek, so it was hidden away. And on the afternoon of July 8, stores around Britain were packed with children waiting for it. No, not for the newest set of Pokemon trading cards, but for a book: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third installment of J.K. Rowling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Abracadabra! | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

Louisa Solano, owner of the Grolier Poetry Bookshop in Cambridge, where Ashbery gives frequent readings, prefers to simply let her actions speak for her feelingxs about the poet's work...

Author: By John Ashbery, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Advocate to Avant-Garde: Ashbery Leads Modern Poetry | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...Louisa Solano, owner of the Grolier Poetry Bookshop in Cambridge, where Ashbery gives frequent readings, prefers to simply let her actions speak for her feelings about the poet's work...

Author: By Sasha A. Haines-stiles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Advocate to the Avant-Garde: Ashbery Leads American Poetry | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

Smaller neighborhood stores like Grolier Poetry Bookshop, the Harvard Book Store, Schoenhof's Foreign Books and WordsWorth have coexisted with the mammoth Coop by hiring personable and knowledgeable clerks, and by carving out a niche in the Square's unique market...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Virtual Insanity: Square Bookstores Struggle to Compete With Online Vendors | 4/21/1999 | See Source »

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