Avid Bookshop
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Doing Journalism
ANNOTATED: How Addison Simmons Turned First Photo Essay into Touching Profile of Local, Queer-Owned Business
Reporter Annotations are meant to get to the how and why behind Newsource’s reporting through in-depth conversations with the reporters themselves. Have a listen or read the conversation below for how fourth-year journalism major Addison Simmons covered her first photo essay along with a business story for her Reporting…
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Doing Journalism
ANNOTATED: Athens Bookstore Files First Amendment Rights Lawsuit
On March 15, Avid Bookshop filed a lawsuit against the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Department, claiming that the jail’s policy blocking unauthorized retailers from sending books to inmates violates the bookstore’s First Amendment rights. I’m Chloe Savan, and I met with Lucy Bertsch and David Eberly, two Grady Newsource reporters…
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Athens-Clarke County
Local Shops Strive to Preserve the Bookstore Experience
Soft music playing, a young boy and girl laughing and chasing each other through the colorful aisles, an older couple sitting at the bench by the door sharing a classic, rows upon rows of novels of all different sizes and genres, the smell of paper, and the promise of a…
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Athens-Clarke County
Avid Bookshop Reopens Its Doors, Navigates Pandemic
UPDATED: 1:56 p.m. October 7, 2021 UPDATE: This week, Avid Bookshop opened for browsing on Tuesdays in addition to the regular Wednesday-Saturday hours. “One of the darkest moments of last year was when I realized that I wasn’t doing what I found most fulfilling at the job, which is connecting…
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Athens-Clarke County
Avid Bookshop’s New Book Club Promotes Literature About Race and Labor
After the George Floyd protests, members of the University of Georgia’s United Campus Workers of Georgia, UCWUGA, realized there are not enough opportunities for open dialogue on racial issues in the Athens community. “We wanted to educate others and ourselves about racial justice,” said Jessica Roberts, a member of UCWUGA’s…
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Athens-Clarke County
Avid Bookshop Hosts Children’s Book Author
Athens, GA.–A popular children’s author celebrated the release of a new graphic novel here in Athens. It was standing room only at Avid Bookshop last night where author and illustrator Ben Hatke celebrated the release of his new children’s book, Mighty Jack. Hatke did a live reading and signing of the book,…