Extract from an great article by Porter Anderson on the Writer Unboxed site:

No one takes the vapors like Barnes & Noble.

Now, in what may well be the final act of its agonies, the hulking bookstore chain sprawls on the divan of America’s Bayreuth, rising from the silks to sing another negative earnings report, recently with grace notes about restaurants being added to some locations—and stylish firepits! Hopeful flutes chatter in the orchestra, never mind how urgently Bradbury tried to tell us that books and flames are bad together.

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The Passion of Barnes & Noble