Congratulations to Sue Little, owner and founder of Jabberwocky Bookshop, Newburyport, Mass., who was honored over the weekend at the Newburyport Literary Festival. The Festival cited "her dedication to local readers and her many contributions to the Newburyport community."
Little founded Jabberwocky in 1972, when she had to go into Boston regularly to fill her reading habit. She told WickedLocalNewburyport: "There's always going to be writing, there's always going to be creative storytelling. Since the dawn of time, we've had storytelling. We were telling stories in caves. It's how human beings make sense of the world. I believe this fervently. That's the importance of literature. It's a part of us. It's who we are. And I don't think that's going to change any time soon."
She added that the ultimate form of creative storytelling is "up for grabs. I think we're going to have to revisit that. And our ability to reward creative people who make these stories that help us make sense of the world, that, too, I'm a little unsure of. That's the importance of the bookstore, that's the importance of literature. That's why I got into it in the first place."