Stories & Articles

Alphabetical List of Stories With Links

A Bookman’s Ghost Story   Click Here

A Video Tour of Hollywood’s Last Big General Bookshop   Click Here

Alias Bookstore to be Torn Down for Condos   Click Here

Amazon’s Stealth Invasion of Vermont  Click Here

An Australian Bookman in Hollywood  Click Here

Archives Bookshop Relocates in Pasadena  Click Here

Arson at the Iliad Book Store Part 1  Click Here

Arson at the Iliad Book Store Part 2  Click Here

Beatology Store Opens and Closes in Downtown L.A. Click Here

Before He Was A Bookseller, Arnold Herr & Skinflicks  Click Here

Book Shops of New York City – 1939   Click Here

Booklet Guides To Old Bookstores – San Diego Area  Click Here

Car Collides With Giant Books (Iliad Book Shop)   Click Here

Charles Bukowski – Was His Fictional Book Store Real? Click Here

Conspiracy Dudes, Scary Scientology Green Thetans and Murder Above the Bookstore  Click Here

Dan Glickman:  Laughing at Myself  Click Here

Dave Dutton, Beloved Los Angeles Bookseller   Click Here

Death Claims 2 Booksellers From the Now Closed Cliff’s Books in Pasadena   Click Here

Delayed Reaction:  What Happened 15 Years After My Argument with Larry McMurtry    Click Here

Distant Lands Travel Bookstore Closing  Click Here

Dude, Where’s the Plaque?  Click Here

Eli Goodman Laid To Rest   Click Here 

Ellroy’s Hollywood 1962 – The Enchanters Behind the Scenes Click Here

Faded Memories: Santa Barbara Bookstores in the 1980s  Click Here

FBI Targeted Black Independent Bookstores  Click Here

Florida Radio Show Features Arnold Herr   Click Here

Found: Another Guide to Burbank – North Hollywood and Glendale.  Click Here

Hollywood Bookstore History – Stanley Rose  Click Here

Hollywood Boulevard Bookstore Follies – Part 1   Click Here

Hollywood Boulevard Bookstore Follies – Part 2   Click Here

Hollywood Boulevard Bookstore Follies – Part 3   Click Here

Hollywood Boulevard Bookstore Follies – Part 4   Click Here

Hollywood Bukowski Mural Obliterated  Click Here

Hollywood’s Lost Book World East of Vine  Click Here

How Amazon Controls the Book World  Click Here

How Book Folks Can Save 20% On Paper Costs at Home  Click Here

How To Sell Books in Budapest  Click Here

Iliad Bookshop Rebuilds Crunched Giant Books   Click Here

Incredible Book Find of Rare Thomas Paine Pamphlets  Click Here

Is This The End For Cliff’s Books?     Click Here

J.J. Lally Reference Library Click Here

L.A.’s Bad Boy Adam Parfrey Dead at 61  Click Here

L.A.’s Famous Whimsic Alley to Close   Click Here

L.A.’s Old Magazine Stores A Lost Era – Part 1 – Click Here

L.A.’s Westside to Lose Last Large Bookshop  Click Here

Last Sale at Sam: Johnson’s Book Store  Click Here

Latest News From Iliad Book Shop 2021  Click Here

Lawyers of Los Angeles  Click Here

Libraries in Gaza Bombed Into Rubble Click Here

Los Angeles Bard Duane Thorin Passes     Click Here 

Los Angeles Vintage Paperback Show 2023  Click Here

Los Angeles Vintage Paperback Show 2919  Click Here

Lost Documentary on Mayme Clayton Library Found.  Click Here

Memorial For Duane Thorin Click Here

Memorial For Jerry Lang (Cliff’s Books)   Click Here

Memories of Departed Bookmen – Harry Bierman   Click Here

Nutty “Ling Ling” Autograph Law Replaced  Click Here

Old Bookshop Guide to Burbank – North Hollywood Area  Click Here

Old Book Cart in Florence, Italy  Click Here

Once Upon A Time in Mar Vista  Click Here

Paperback Show Memories   Click Here

Paul Hunt on Steve Eisenstein’s Bucks on the Bookshelf June 2, 2018  Click Here

R.I.P. Eli Goodman, 92, Cosmopolitan Bookshop    Click Here

R.I.P. William Dailey  Click Here

Should Barnes and Noble Go Back to the Malls?  Click Here

The amazon.com Puerto Rico Pancake Mix Affair  Click Here

The Barnes and Noble Censorship Two-Step Dance to Oblivion Starring Milo Yiannopoulis  Click Here

The Book Stalls of Al-Muttunabbi  Click Here

The Booksellers Bell of Doom Rings for Barnes and Noble in Santa Monica Click Here  

The Book to Get for Holiday Reading  Click Here

The Future of American Book Shops  Click Here

The Lurid Underground of the Book World  Click Here

The Mayme Clayton African-American Library Vanished Without a Trace.  Click Here

The Mysterious Bookbinder Who Roamed Hollywood Blvd. Looking for Tattered Tomes  Click Here

The Rock Man – The Saga of Jack Garvin -Part 1  Click Here

The Rock Man – Part 2  Click Here

The Secret Life of Hugh Tolford  Click Here

The Secret World of Script Collectors   Click Here

The Tarzan Fan From the Detroit Purple Gang  Click Here

The True Cost of Amazon  Click Here

The Wild Ride of a Hollywood Book Dealer (Arnold Herr)   Click Here

Thomas Pynchon Archive  Click Here

Tibetan Bookseller’s Story     Click Here

Trashed – How I Boosted My Immune System and Made Money Wallowing in Hoarder’s Hell.  Click Here

Tribute Scheduled for Author George Clayton Johnson   Click Here

Update on The Magic Door IV Bookshop  Click Here

Wall Street Site Questions Barnes and Noble  Click Here

Whatever Happened to Frugalius Maximus?  Click Here

What’s That Book Worth?  Click Here