Amazon’s bookstore in Chicago is closing — ‘Boo-hoo’ and don’t let the algorithms hit you on the way out
CHICAGO — As I left Amazon Books on Southport Avenue for the last time — it’s closing March 19, after sitting there for five years, cold and vague, an enigmatic cultural artifact, never loved, requested or wished for — I stood on the sidewalk, took notes, and a woman in a Lululemon zip-up asked me what I was writing. I said, this Amazon Books, it’s closing.
She cackled.
“No! Boo-hoo! Jeff Bezos! So sorry! Maybe reopen in space!”
And that’s how the bourgeoisie are taking the news.
Now back to you, Satan.
Surely, there is a seat reserved in hell for those who gloat over the closing of a bookstore. Perhaps the exception is this , the strangest excuse ever for a bookstore chain and, for five chilly years of life in Chicago, the dumbest bookstore in the city. Jeff will get over it, move
