There's a hot vibe in our hometown Barnes and Noble (Mandeville, Louisiana)__and a whole new set of the literary young and beautiful. See, my demo (media term for people interested in a particular brand/product/book) has typically been women 25-54, but Saturday I saw a very refreshing book happening...it is now de rigeur for twenties ladies and men to be into real literature. I'm not talking vampire books but Austen, Thoreau, poetry...and they're not required reading! They're once again studying English as majors and forming book clubs--very beatnik kinda events. Case in point, the twentyish young lady escorting her grandfather in for a copy of Confereracy Of Dunces, and the notion female authors are the new orbiters of social trends. I personally am thrilled and see this as a welcome sign of the economic times--intelligence is the true commodity.
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