Bookstore Night in Buenos Aires Encourages Reading
by Brian Byrnes, NPR Morning Edition
December 21, 2009
In Argentina over the weekend, Buenos Aires held its annual Noche de las Librerias — Bookstore Night. The city closes a main avenue, and places sofas and chairs where cars and trucks normally idle. People with books from the many bookstores lining the avenue, lounge in the seating and a festival atmospherel replaces traffic.