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Bookshelf - The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

Dinaw Mengestu’s debut novel, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears tells the story of Sepha Stephanos, an Ethiopian immigrant who runs a grocery store in Washington D.C.’s Logan Circle. Sepha’s neighborhood is rapidly undergoing gentrification, a shift that first becomes real for Sepha when Julia, a white woman, rehabs the building next door to him [...]

29Sep2008 | Andrea | Comments | Continued
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New Amazon E-reader Shows Promise

Released two weeks ago, the Amazon Kindle is looking to be the best e-reader yet. The development of a device that could replace a paper book has been discussed and attempted [...]

3Dec2007 | Andrea | Comments | Continued
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Hip Hop Trends Bleed into the Book Market

This past summer I visited the Borders on Michigan Avenue to buy Edward P. Jones’s latest short story collection. While I quickly scanned the J’s I found myself hoping that the people walking by paid close attention to the sign hanging over the shelves so they’d know I was in the African-American Literature section and [...]

24Oct2007 | Andrea | Comments | Continued