New Community Bookstore 'JustBook-ish' Opens In Dorchester

A new bookstore in Dorchester opened its doors Saturday, with Mayor Michelle Wu in attendance. WBZ's Mike Macklin reports.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
In an era when Amazon and the Internet of combined
to put community bookstores out of business. There's a little
place just opened in Dorchester's Fields Corner that's trying to
buck the trend. The Just Bookish Bookstore on Dorchester Av.
Opened to a packed house of kids and parents, and
Mayor Michelle wou showed up to read to the kids, and.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
It's amazing to see people coming together. There's a need
and a hunger for spaces where people can be creative,
learn new things, and just come together with their neighbors.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
The bookstore doubles as a cafe, serving food and beverages
along with the nourishment for the mind. Its owner Boston's
poet Laureate Portia Olayuola.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
I am interested in folks having the space to kind
of just gather, talk, think, revolutionize things. Nothing opens the
mind like reading, like talking, like exchanging stories in Dorchester.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Mike Macklin WBZ, Boston's news radio