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The Path From Politics To Poetry

Paul Andrews
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Every city has that one bookstore, the irreverent corner shop where literary types plot revolutions. In Kansas City, that bookstore is Prospero's, owned by Will Leathem. Leathem took a surprising path to becoming a used book salesman.

 

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Music: Balti, Begrudge, Filing Away, and Paper Napikin by Blue Dot Sessions; all have been edited.

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