The plight of independent bookstores in the age of Amazon seems simple: live or die. But the Jan. 31 closing of BookBar, a drink-and-read concept that opened a decade ago in Denver’s Berkeley neighborhood, is more complicated than that.
“There will be no free wifi,” Sullivan said with a laugh, “so people will be forced to talk face-to-face.”
“They really become part of your little book community — not just where you can go see your book on shelves, but as a hub for events, inspiration and author meet-ups,” wrote Denver-basedvia email. “So losing a place like BookBar feels a lot like losing a friend.” “Our discussions around the First Amendment collided with our stated goal of being antiracist and equitable. The reason for this is that, mechanically, if the First Amendment retained its place and we followed it absolutely as its advocates within the membership would like us to, the ABA would not be positioned to condemn racist, anti-semitic, homophobic, and transphobic speech , but might actually be compelled to support it,” the ABA has written on its website.
, in which she argued that Sullivan’s real reason for leaving the ABA had nothing to do with the First Amendment. “Behind her strawman argument about how diversity is something that can ‘upend the ’s identity and mission’ is the real issue at the heart of Nicole Sullivan’s exit from the ABA: workers’ rights, and especially marginalized workers’ rights,” Speas wrote.
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