I’m getting ready for my trip to Denver to experience the historic hoopla of the DNC and Donna is out exploring new destinations for her faithful travel readers. So, CaliforniaAuthors is taking a little late summer break this week. In the meantime, enjoy:
Ray Bradbury’s future prunes commercial.
Eating LA goes with author Denise Hamilton on a [...]
Stories in Closing:
Summer break at CaliforniaAuthors
Bradbury: Is Long Beach at war with books?
Ray Bradbury writes in the Press-Telegram:
A few weeks ago I was in your city to mourn the pending forced closure of Acres of Books. Since 1934 this unique cultural heritage landmark bookstore has been a destination for book lovers from around the world with its inventory of over 1 million books. The current city leadership [...]
Last word
“Reading books - it’s a crummy business model, but it’s a wonderful life.” — Doug Dutton, at Sunday’s farewell party for his Dutton’s Brentwood Books.
LAObserved has a roundup and photos here. More at TEV.
LA landmark bookstore calls it quits
LAObserved reports the very sad news this morning that Dutton’s Brentwood Books is closing April 30 after a tough year. “Be assured, especially those of you who have regularly asked, ‘How are things going at the store,’ that every effort has been made to try to sensibly and rationally save this enterprise,” says owner Doug [...]
A Christmas eve wake
Richard at Esotouric bemoans the passing of LA’s Craby Joe’s bar.
As Musso & Frank and their employees are a living testament to Hollywood and its golden age, so Craby Joe’s is to downtown Los Angeles’ tenderloin on Main street. At the corner of 7th and Main since 1933, it will close it [...]
Just read the sad news
in this morning’s LA Times: Eso Won Books may close by the end of the year. John Mitchell explains:
After 20 years of hawking books — some by popular authors; others, scholarly works, with rare and exotic titles — L.A.’s leading independent bookstore specializing in writings by African Americans is facing bankruptcy…
“We are suffering from what [...]
Summer break at CaliforniaAuthors
Bradbury: Is Long Beach at war with books?
Ray Bradbury writes in the Press-Telegram:
A few weeks ago I was in your city to mourn the pending forced closure of Acres of Books. Since 1934 this unique cultural heritage landmark bookstore has been a destination for book lovers from around the world with its inventory of over 1 million books. The current city leadership [...]
Last word
“Reading books - it’s a crummy business model, but it’s a wonderful life.” — Doug Dutton, at Sunday’s farewell party for his Dutton’s Brentwood Books.
LAObserved has a roundup and photos here. More at TEV.
LA landmark bookstore calls it quits
LAObserved reports the very sad news this morning that Dutton’s Brentwood Books is closing April 30 after a tough year. “Be assured, especially those of you who have regularly asked, ‘How are things going at the store,’ that every effort has been made to try to sensibly and rationally save this enterprise,” says owner Doug [...]
A Christmas eve wake
Richard at Esotouric bemoans the passing of LA’s Craby Joe’s bar.
As Musso & Frank and their employees are a living testament to Hollywood and its golden age, so Craby Joe’s is to downtown Los Angeles’ tenderloin on Main street. At the corner of 7th and Main since 1933, it will close it [...]
Just read the sad news
in this morning’s LA Times: Eso Won Books may close by the end of the year. John Mitchell explains:
After 20 years of hawking books — some by popular authors; others, scholarly works, with rare and exotic titles — L.A.’s leading independent bookstore specializing in writings by African Americans is facing bankruptcy…
“We are suffering from what [...]
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