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“Literary Hub » When Your Town Needs a Bookstore… Why Not Open One Yourself?”
“That’s the kind of town Swarthmore is: small enough that you often know people a couple of different ways.”
“What would be not solitary, pay a salary, and be writing adjacent?”
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“Meanwhile, I had begun writing a novel that grew out of my interest in housing affordability.”
“I was fascinated and appalled by the ways local zoning laws in towns like mine help keep housing costs high.”
“Some whole states, like Connecticut and California, have legalized ADUs in recent years!”
“I’d worked for a while as a grant writer, and later as a newspaper editor, but those jobs, too, were solitary.”
“So when Beth asked me that second question, I only hesitated for a moment before saying yes.”
“The teaching I’d been doing was starting to dry up, and also, I was feeling I had less to offer as a teacher.”
“Most neighborhoods are reserved for single-family homes, no small apartment buildings or even townhouses allowed.”
“Celia Bookshop opened its doors in October.”
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“I turned the final draft of my novel in to my editor in August.”
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“Our kids were the same age, and my daughter used to go to her house for ACT prep classes.”
““Don’t you think Swarthmore needs an independent bookstore?” she asked.”
“For a while before that phone call, I’d been waiting to see what the universe might offer me.”