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A Seat at the Table: The Making of Busboys and Poets
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A Seat at the Table is the story of the founding of Busboys and Poets, a Washington, D.C.–based restaurant that has become a celebrated hub for political activism. Named in honor of Langston Hughes, who worked as a busboy while writing poetry, the restaurant is the creation of Andy Shallal, an Iraqi American restaurateur, artist, and activist.
In this fastpaced, personal, and often humorous story, we follow Andy from his teenage years on, helping out in his family’s pizza business, changin...