Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore and Uncle Edgar's Mystery Bookstore have reopened about two miles east of the old location in south Minneapolis.
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Words Over Windows project
David Dyer-Bennet, whose friends call him DD-B, has been a TOP reader for a long time and a photographer for a much longer time. After George Floyd was killed in DD-B s neighborhood in Minneapolis, he became fascinated with the art that bloomed on the plywood covering broken windows, and began to document it. He calls the project Words Over Windows. I’ve lived in South Minneapolis for nearly all of the last 40 years, he writes. The killing happened a mile from my house, at an intersection I pass through many times a week. The Cub and Target over by 3rd Precinct are where most of my shopping happened, and is a mile north of a previous place I lived. 5th Precinct and the Post Office and Wells Fargo that got burned are a mile north of me. I lived just around the corner from where Uncle Hugo’s Science Fiction Bookstore was burned (and have known the owner since the 1970s). This is all familiar territory, right where I live.
Many Bookstores Still Raising Cash on GoFundMe By Ed Nawotka, Alex Green, and Claire Kirch | Dec 18, 2020
It is no secret that this holiday shopping season is a make-or-break period for many bookstores around the country. A survey by the American Booksellers Association in October revealed that, on average, one store closed each week this year. Recently, several bookstores like the Strand in New York City and Harvard Book Store in Boston took to social media to ask customers to come in and buy books to offset severe business declines caused by the pandemic. Other store owners have turned to crowdfunding sites such as GoFundMe to raise money.