Politics and Prose co-owner Barbara Meade says the evaluation of bidders to buy the store is focused on six suitors, and the Washington Post says there is a January deadline for bids. A local consortium that includes agent Rafe Sagalyn, along with departy editor of the New Republic Franklin Foer, XM Satellite radio founder Hugh Panero, and Atlantic correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg remains one of the contenders.Washington Post Separately, the Minneapolis Star Tribune looks at the wave of Minnesota stores that have closed recently–the latest are Biermaier’s Books in Minneapolis, “for 60 years among the largest used bookstores in Minnesota,” and […]