Great piece. Not mentioned, but this is what also, between the late 80s and the late 90s, killed the American mass-market paperback as the primary sales channel for genre fiction.
Lotta SFF writers who voted for Reagan had their careers killed by this, and they still haven’t figured it out.
Lotta SFF writers who voted for Reagan had their careers killed by this, and they still haven’t figured it out.
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Stacy Mitchell
1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.
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I'm going to have to pay attention to the book section in Walgreens next time I visit. I know it exists, but not sure what sort of books are there.
(* Not just modern, etc.)
It's still Lee Atwater's world.
And until about 10 years back a local Rite-Aid drug store had one! Modest, but they had a table where a lady could cut fabric for you.
Do you really not see?
There were so many more books and booksellers then.
We really need to kill off the supermarket chains.