{"id":239,"date":"2007-10-26T04:24:48","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T04:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=239"},"modified":"2020-05-07T13:34:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:34:21","slug":"book-beat-honored-by-metro-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2007\/10\/26\/book-beat-honored-by-metro-times\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK BEAT HONORED BY METRO TIMES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"1COVER.jpg\" id=\"image238\" title=\"1COVER.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/1COVER.jpg\" \/>The &#8220;Best of Detroit&#8221; issue of the <em>Metro Times<\/em> (Oct 24-Oct30th, 2007) recently honored Book Beat, 26010 Greenfield, Oak Park:<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Book Beat is so crammed with books vertically in the shelves, books horizontally atop the vertical books, books on the floor \u00e2\u20ac\u201d we forgot to look up, but there were probably books on the ceiling \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that it feels less like a retail establishment than someone&#8217;s compulsive collection of cool stuff that just happens to be for sale to pay the rent. There&#8217;s a flip-book of yoga asanas, here&#8217;s a $2 stapled pamphlet of Rosa Luxemburg&#8217;s writings published in 1980 by some small Detroit Marxist group at 2832 E. Grand Blvd., there&#8217;s a CD of minimalist pioneer Tony Conrad, there&#8217;s the late poet Ted Joans&#8217; <\/em><em>Black Pow-Wow. Wow! An amazing children&#8217;s book section, a dedication to Detroit authors, live readings and performances, the art gallery in the back &#8230; those are just some of the distinctions of this place, a love-labor for Cary Loren (once of the group Destroy All Monsters), his wife, Colleen Kammer, and their staff. As they put it at myspace.com\/bookbeatdetroit &#8220;&#8230; serving the collective unconscious in metro Detroit for 25 years.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more about great independent shopping in the neighborhood in the <em>Best of Detroit Metro Times<\/em> online at: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metrotimes.com\/editorial\/story.asp?id=11913\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">THE GLORY OF CAPITALISM.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &ldquo;Best of Detroit&rdquo; issue of the Metro Times (Oct 24-Oct30th, 2007) recently honored Book Beat, 26010 Greenfield, Oak Park: &ldquo;Book Beat is so crammed with books vertically in the shelves, books horizontally atop the vertical books, books on the floor &acirc;&euro;&rdquo; we forgot to look up, but there were probably books on the ceiling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookbeat-shop-history","category-detroit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}