The week's good news: February 6, 2020

It wasn't all bad!

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1. Book lover's dream comes true when she opens the Bronx's only bookstore

Noëlle Santos wasn't going to let the Bronx's only bookstore close without a fight. In 2014, Barnes & Noble announced it was shuttering its lone store in the Bronx in New York City. Because it was the only bookstore in the borough, Santos joined thousands of others to protest its closure. As a kid, the Bronx native adored reading, and books were "my window outside of my little five-block radius, which many of my peers never expanded beyond," she told Inside Edition. Santos started researching what it would take to open her own independent bookstore, and spent months writing a business plan and figuring out financials. Last April, her hard work paid off, as she opened The Lit. Bar — a bookstore, wine bar, and community center. "Our mission is to give the community additional access to literature and create intellectual visibility in the Bronx," Santos said.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.