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Ever, his daughter Jenny Christophersen interprets.

Whitetail News Roundup 2008

Chicago, Christophersen says, is a city that strongly backs neighborhood businesses, and WCF's Andersonville location (its third location during its history) has enabled the store to both grow its space and transition from a strictly niche market to a true neighborhood gathering place.

Gina Frangello: Chicago's Women & Children Inspires Three Decades of Writers and Readers 2009

Bubon is responsible for buying stock for the extensive children's section, and Christophersen says the political section of the store has also expanded and is not limited to feminism, though, she qualifies, "Our definition of feminism has always been broad, in that it includes many other political issues."

Gina Frangello: Chicago's Women & Children Inspires Three Decades of Writers and Readers 2009

However devoted writers may be to the store, no business can survive on the love of writers alone -- Christophersen also credits Chicago itself with keeping Women & Children alive all these years.

Gina Frangello: Chicago's Women & Children Inspires Three Decades of Writers and Readers 2009

Adds Christophersen, "Right now, Granta magazine's Chicago issue is selling like gangbusters -- we've gone through seventy-five copies in a week and a half."

Gina Frangello: Chicago's Women & Children Inspires Three Decades of Writers and Readers 2009

When the store came very near closure in 2007 and Bubon and Christophersen broadcasted the imminent threat, customers began pouring out of the woodwork in support.

Gina Frangello: Chicago's Women & Children Inspires Three Decades of Writers and Readers 2009

Bubon and Christophersen both think of Chicago as a strong literary city.

Gina Frangello: Chicago's Women & Children Inspires Three Decades of Writers and Readers 2009

Christophersen says what is missing is "book talk" in the media.

Gina Frangello: Chicago's Women & Children Inspires Three Decades of Writers and Readers 2009

Christophersen, and took good bearings of them in case the fog should return.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

It was bought in 1903 from consul Christian Christophersen, a prominent figure in the booming business life of Kristiania (the name of the Norwegian capital until 1924) in the 1890s.

The Norwegian Nobel Institute 1999