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The article discusses Logan Fox selling his independent bookstore Micawber Books to Princeton University. Fox discusses how he believes popular culture has given up on talking about books, and instead talk about television programs or motion pictures. The selling of Micawber is similar to what is happening to many independent booksellers, who are having a hard time competing with online booksellers and huge chains stores.

JERSEY CITY -- On the rough-edged streets of Harlem in the 1940s, the young Walter Dean Myers knew better than to carry his library books where other children could see them. ''I was teased if I brought my books home,'' said Mr. Myers, now a prolific and award-winning children's book author. ''I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books in the bag and bring them home. Not that I was that concerned about them teasing me -- because I would hit them in a heartbeat. But I felt a little ashamed, having books.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

No one seemed to be home in the town house of Mayor Peter Cammarano III on Saturday as about 100 protesters chanted for him to step down. One of the demonstrators put a huge mock check on Mr. Cammarano's front door and in the memo line wrote in big letters, ''To resign.'' While Mr. Cammarano, one of several New Jersey public officials arrested in a sweeping federal corruption case last week, vowed the day after the arrests that he would do no such thing and denied all charges, the scene outside his home seemed to show how carefully cultivated political ambitions that began in childhood had been suddenly turned into the stuff of a vaudeville skit. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]