A Baghdad Bookseller, Bound to His Country
12th July 2008
Read it.
Notice how, when the WaPo writes about somebody in a Third-World shithold, they never write about people who are actually doing manual labor — craftsmen, manufacturers, famers, ditch-diggers, goatherds. They always interview artists, poets, actors, playwrights, “journalists”, editors … or, as here, booksellers. If it’s not someting you can do downtown in a major American metropolis, they have no interest in it or anybody who is involved with it.