When Ed Devereux opened Unabridged Bookstore on November 1, 1980, with two business partners and $18,000, he had no idea if the store would last. Though, to be honest, he wasn’t thinking very far ahead at all. “When you’re 27,” he says, “you don’t ever think you’re going to be 62. When you’re young, you’re fearless.”
Eventually the store not only survived but thrived, expanding to fill two more neighboring storefronts and a basement.
Rachel DeWoskin, a novelist and memoirist; her husband Zayd Ayers, a playwright; and their two young daughters are regular customers and loiterers at Unabridged. “I bet our feeling—that Unabridged is an extension of our house, conversation, and bedtime story life—is one we share with countless other families,” DeWoskin says.
Sat 12/12, 6 PM Unabridged Bookstore 3251 N. Broadway 773-883-9119unabridgedbookstore.com Free
