Sunday, March 27, 2016

Remember Nancy Olson.

The death of an independent bookseller is always a tragedy.

The death of one in Raleigh marks one more connection severed between state government and those who live in this century.
After a decade in the original location, Olson moved the store to a larger spot at Ridgewood Shopping Center on Wade Avenue and renamed it Quail Ridge Books. Not long after she opened there, Goddin said, Olson’s former landlord came in looking for a best-selling thriller that everyone was talking about.“She told him, ‘You’re a really wonderful landlord, but you have terrible taste in books,’” Goddin recalled. “And she gave him Steven Ambrose or something. Who else but Nancy would say something like that?”
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