This evening I hauled two big bags of worn literature down Damen to sell at Myopic Books, the mega used books store and Kaaba of the Hipster Mecca that is the 6 Corners of Wicker Park. I got two major things out of the experience:
a) $35 for the books they wanted, which I greatly appreciated
b) [...]
Archive for April, 2008
The Changing Identity of Mari, or “Why She Thinks She’s Better Than Hipsters,” or “Why She Wishes She Were Latina”
Posted in Chicago, growing up, hipsters on April 18, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Let’s Talk Guatemala.
Posted in memory on April 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The air right there smelled like dust, water, incense, and soot; the air over there smelled like mangoes, just mangoes, maybe wood too. Whatever it was, I want to smell it forever. Right in that place. Right between those two enormous walls that used to be even more enormous before an earthquake 300 years ago. [...]
