But she said that for the most part the shoppers had not purchased books.
“[People] come in and say we’re sorry [but] they don’t buy books,” Solano said.
Instead, Solano said that she had received help from some patient publishers and from her landlord, Harvard.
“They’ve kept [my rent] reasonable for many years and are not pressing me for owed rent,” she said.
Vicki Macy, assistant to the Adams House masters, said she was “delighted” Grolier would keep its place up Plympton Street.
“Harvard would be ashamed to let it go since it’s their property,” Macy said. “Solano is very generous with the House. She brings poetry into our lives.”
Grolier often holds poetry readings at Adams and also co-hosts monthly poetry readings at the Advocate.
—Staff writer Joseph M. Tartakoff can be reached at tartakof@fas.harvard.edu