Bookstores are leaving Manhattan: ...the rapidly escalating cost of doing business there is driving out bookstores, threatening the city’s sense of self as the center of the literary universe, the home of the publishing industry and a place that lures and nurtures authors and avid readers. “Sometimes I feel as if I’m working in a field that’s disappearing right under my feet,” said the biographer and historian Robert Caro.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:28:32 +0000