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> [“The cultural critic Leon Wieseltier angrily noted, “The streets of American cities are haunted by the ghosts of bookstores and record stores, which have been destroyed by the greatest thugs in the history of the culture industry.” The bitter irony…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-taplin/the-cultural-critic-leon-wieseltier-angrily-noted-the-streets-of/)

[Jonathan Taplin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-taplin/)

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