Jessica Stockton Bagnulo’s efforts to grow a bookstore in Brooklyn are Timesworthy, as the paper’s metro section looks at the party thrown by the Fort Greene Indie Bookstore Initiative. “Given everything else going on in the world, [it] felt like a pocket of irrational exuberance, even extravagance — a through-the-looking-glass scene in which an independent bookstore, of all things, was the cause for great optimism and celebration. “Halfway through the event, Ms. Stockton Bagnulo announced with glee that she had a business partner — Rebecca Fitting, a 34-year-old sales representative for Random House who decided a few weeks earlier to […]
