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The Last Bookstore on Earth by Lily Braun-Arnold Read alikes: Fable for the End of the World by Ava Reid Snow Globe by Soyoung Park Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven.
ICYMI: Hour Two of ‘Later, with Mo'Kelly' Presents – ‘Friday Nights' with L.A. Radio Legend Nautica De La Cruz checking out ‘The Last Bookstore' ~ The largest new and used bookstore in California' AND highlighting today's Hidden Gem, the L.A. Radio Vet Chris Loos with his amazing non-profit ‘The iDream Society' and their mission to “teach & enable young Artists & Entrepreneurs with the information needed to thrive” … PLUS – Mark Rahner has a review of the new A24 comedy/horror ‘Death of a Unicorn' in the Rahner Report – on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
ICYMI: ‘Later, with Mo'Kelly' Presents – ‘Friday Nights' with L.A. Radio Legend Nautica De La Cruz checking out ‘The Last Bookstore' ~ The largest new and used bookstore in California' AND highlighting today's Hidden Gem, the L.A. Radio Vet Chris Loos with his amazing non-profit ‘The iDream Society' and their mission to “teach & enable young Artists & Entrepreneurs with the information needed to thrive” – on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
Today, we're reviewing The Last Bookstore on Earth, a natural disaster dystopian novel that falls flat with the dynamics.Follow the Author: https://lilybraunarnold.com/Buy on B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-last-bookstore-on-earth-lily-braun-arnold/1145363634?ean=9798217117123Buy on Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/a/8108/9780593899489Become a Supporter: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/cynsworkshop https://ko-fi.com/cynsworkshopFollow Cyn's Workshop:Blog: https://cynsworkshop.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Reader.Writer.Critic/Twitter: https://twitter.com/Cyn_NovelistInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/cynsworkshop/TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@cynsworkshopPodcast: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/G3phGH71Msb
As we gear up for Season 2 of the Watchung Booksellers Podcast, we are re-airing an episode from the first season to celebrate the release of The Last Bookstore on Earth from debut author Lily Braun-Arnold, a Smith College student and employee of Watchung Booksellers.Enjoy this repeat episode of Season 1 - Ep 10: From Reader to Writer with Lily Braun-Arnold and Laura Marx Fitzgerald. Books:A full list of the books and authors mentioned in this episode is available here. Register for Upcoming Events.The Watchung Booksellers Podcast is produced by Kathryn Counsell and Marni Jessup and is recorded at Silver Stream Studio in Montclair, NJ. The show is edited by Kathryn Counsell and Bree Testa. Special thanks to Timmy Kellenyi and Derek Mattheiss. Original music is composed and performed by Violet Mujica. Art & design and social media by Evelyn Moulton. Research and show notes by Caroline Shurtleff. Thanks to all the staff at Watchung Booksellers and The Kids' Room! If you liked our episode please like, follow, and share! Stay in touch!Email: wbpodcast@watchungbooksellers.comSocial: @watchungbooksellersSign up for our newsletter to get the latest on our shows, events, and book recommendations!
In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers Podcast, authors Laura Marx Fitzgerald and Lily Braun-Arnold discuss how their passion for reading led to writing careers, and how they found inspiration and mentorship along the way. Guest Bios:Laura Marx Fitzgerald is the author of two art mysteries for kids, Under the Egg and The Gallery, and the picture book Wild for Winnie. She is currently at work on her first novel for adults, a work of historical fiction also set in the art world.Lily Braun-Arnold is a sophomore at Smith College studying English. When she isn't writing, she can be found playing trombone in her school's wind ensemble or daydreaming about living in outer space. She worked at Watchung Booksellers in high school and continues to help out when she's home on breaks. Her debut novel The Last Bookstore on Earth will be released in January 2025.Books:A full list of the books and authors mentioned in this episode is available here. Lily's Spotify Playlist for the Last Bookstore on Earth.Resources:The Limbourg Brothers at the Met The Limbourg Brothers Belles HeuresMichelangelo and Raphael Rivalry Antiques Roadshow!BBC World Book Club podcastWorld Book Club Barbara Kingsolver episodeRegister for Upcoming Events.The Watchung Booksellers Podcast is produced by Kathryn Counsell and Marni Jessup. Recording and editing by Timmy Kellenyi, Bree Testa, and Derek Mattheiss at Silver Stream Studio in Montclair, NJ. Original music is composed and performed by Violet Mujica. Art & design and social media by Evelyn Moulton. Research and show notes by Caroline Shurtleff. Thank you to the staff at Watchung Booksellers and The Kids' Room for their hard work and love of books! If you liked our episode please like, follow, and share! Stay in touch!Email: wbpodcast@watchungbooksellers.comSocial: @watchungbooksellersSign up for our newsletter to get the latest on our shows, events, and book recommendations!
Have you ever been to the Last Bookstore? Even if you haven't, you might have seen it in someone's Instagram pictures. We're headed to a downtown LA landmark today to learn about what it takes to run California's largest new and used bookstore. Let's go treasure hunting through the shelves and then head up the stairs -- meet you in the book tunnel!
Imagine hosting an audiobook launch party at a world-renowned bookstore. What if you could turn that bookstore appearance into a show to remember for guests and readers alike? Daniel Eric Finkel is making that happen at the Last Bookstore in Downtown Los Angeles with a little help from his friends. Find out how Daniel discovered the perfect voice actor for his audiobook, what audiobook production looked like, and how he was able to land an epic in-store appearance at a world-renowned bookstore. For tickets to Daniel's event, visit https://www.lastbookstorela.com/. Daniel Eric Finkel - https://danielericfinkel.com Mr. Taffle's Pants of Insanity - https://books2read.com/u/4A2Dgp (affiliate link) Join Channel Memberships - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl9CjdZQtzufqgYx0CidSbA/join Join my community on Discord - http://dalelinks.com/discord Where noted, some outbound links financially benefit the channel through affiliate programs. I only endorse programs, products, or services I use and can stand confidently behind. These links do not affect your purchase price and greatly helps to building and growing this channel. Thanks in advance for understanding! - Dale L. Roberts
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Original broadcast date March 2, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/03/binary-system-podcast-351-umbrella-academy-season-2-finale-and-oscar-opinions/ Since we've still got a few days till the return of Lore Olympus (and you better believe we're going into withdrawal aaaaaaa) this week Kathryn finished up season 2 of Umbrella Academy and boy howdy do we have some things to discuss. This is less of a recap than a deep dive into everything we loved about the finale, with frequent pauses to wonder if they're playing fast and loose with Five's time-traveling powers, and whether or not the "new" Ben is going to be a jerk. (Elizabeth, who's watched season three, isn't saying a word, nuh uh.) After that Elizabeth admits that season two of The Hunters is better than season one so she'll stop hate-watching it and start actually watching it. And they both approve of using The Last Bookstore as a filming location. Finally they wrap up with a quick look at the distressingly few Oscar-nominated films they've seen: Wakanda Forever (cried within the first six minutes), Everything, Everywhere All At Once (anybody calling it "Oscar Bait" has clearly missed the weaponized butt-plugs) and Blonde (Ana de Armas does a good job, but seriously, eff that movie.) This week's outro is a clip from Drive by Alex Productions. Apologies for the background hum in some sections, Elizabeth's house-sitting this week and hadn't realized how very loud their freezer is. Correction: Lila in Umbrella Academy doesn't really absorb or counter people's powers, she mimics them, but yes, only one at a time. Correction #2 - Unbreakable didn't film at The House Of Secrets in Burbank (it was actually Ontario Street Comic Book shop in Pennsylvania) and Leland says most of the movies that shoot in the comic shop annex are student films, but the comic shop you see in BIg Bang Theory was based on House of Secrets. Ted Lasso season 3 starts March 15. (Hurry up, Kathryn! - Elizabeth) (I'm going I'm going! - Kathryn) Here's links to the Saga #62 review and the Red Letter Media Best of the Worst episode. Looking for a present for that hard-to-shop-for person? Want to buy them (or yourself) a square foot of a castle in Scotland? Look no further! You can support the restoration of Dunan's castle, legally call yourself Lady or Laird, AND if you use http://www.scottishlaird.co.uk/#_a_2gk to get there, you can support this podcast too! For updates, fan art, and other randomness, come follow us on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, and Instagram!
Today on Sense of Soul we have Certified Master Hypnotist and Human Design Reader Heidi Hazen. For a decade, she was the co-owner of the world-famous bookstore, The Last Bookstore before pivoting into my her soul's purpose. For years, Heidi was depressed, extremely anxious, halfway to adrenal failure, and almost giving up on life despite having what many people desire in life: two lovely kids, a good husband, a thriving business, money, and a beautiful home. Today, she has helped thousands of women overcome limiting beliefs holding them back and discover their life's purpose. She then became a Certified Hypnotist with the National Guild of Hypnotists, a Certified Master Hypnotist in 5-PATH, a 7th Path Self-Hypnosis Teacher, a trained Human Design Reader, and a Reiki Level 1 & 2 Practitioner to help other women find their way back to their original self so they may live authentically. Do you want a session with Heidi or to learn more about her workshops, visit her website: https://heidihazen.com https://instagram.com/heidihazen?igshid=Zjc2ZTc4Nzk= Visit Sense of Soul at www.mysenseofsoul.com Do you want Ad Free episodes? Join our Sense of Soul Patreon, our community of seekers and lightworkers. Also recieve 50% off of Shanna's Soul Immersion experience as a Patreon member, monthly Sacred circles, Shanna and Mande's personal mini series, Sense of Soul merch and more. https://www.patreon.com/senseofsoul Thank you to our Sponsor KACHAVA, use this link for 10% off! www.kachava.com/senseofsoul
Hypnosis Explained An awesome conversation with Heidi Hazen about Hypnosis. This was really insightful and fun. We delve into how by tapping into the subconscious mind we can change our beliefs and redirect our lives. Enjoy! Guest Bio. For a decade, she was the co-owner of the world-famous bookstore, The Last Bookstore, before pivoting into her soul's purpose. For years, Heidi was depressed, extremely anxious, halfway to adrenal failure, and almost giving up on life despite having what many people desire in life: two lovely kids, a good husband, a thriving business, money, and a beautiful home. Today, she has helped thousands of women overcome limiting beliefs holding them back and discover their life's purpose. She then became a Certified Hypnotist with the National Guild of Hypnotists, a Certified Master Hypnotist in 5-PATH, a 7th Path Self-Hypnosis Teacher, a trained Human Design Reader, and a Reiki Level 1 & 2 Practitioner to help other women find their way back to their original self so they may live authentically.
In the grandest tradition of "very special episodes," this week's edition of The Dark Word features an in-person interview before a live audience at The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles. Philip Fracassi speaks to Dutch phenom Thomas Olde Heuvelt, an international bestselling author who broke through with the novel HEX. Since then, Heuvelt's work has been sold in more than 25 countries. The critically acclaimed Echo was recently published in the US and rights for Orakel have also been sold worldwide. In 2015, he was the first Dutch author to win a Hugo Award.And not for nothing ... Philip Fracassi's new novel A CHILD ALONE WITH STRANGERS drops today, Oct. 25, 2022. Buy it here, or learn more about this book and all of Philip's books at his website.
I met Jon at The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles during the Gina Schock (The Go Go's) and Kathy Valentine (The Go Go's) book signing. I became aware of AFSP through Jon's Instagram posts. Seeing depression all around these days I decided to get involved. We share personal stories on suicide and depression. We talk about the upcoming walks for AFSP You're Not Alone and why it's important to support to each of us.Jon Bonham Fox is the current Event Coordinator of The Last Bookstore and current Logistics Chair for The American Foundation For Suicide Prevention for The Los Angeles and Central Coast Santa Monica chapter. Before devoting his work fulltime to The Last Bookstore, Jon has served as Jack of all trades within the music and entertainment business.Jon has written for the Smash Magazine, Pop Culture Junkyard and Sound Planet magazines, has co-hosted 2 podcasts Geek Shock and Greasy Conversation. His book, “Life Is A Record,” is currently on Substack with a printed release of 2023.Jon is also a volunteer with The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention's Los Angeles and Central Coast Santa Monica chapter after starting with the AFSP Nevada Las Vegas chapter in January of 2019.
Sarah Miniaci is a freelance book publicist with fifteen years of experience in the New York and Toronto markets. Ken Whyte's Sutherland House is one of her clients. Ken interviewed Sarah for a recent issue of Shush, his excellent Substack newsletter on the publishing business. Together they surveyed today's new publishing landscape. With the help of Michael Legat's An Author's Guide to Publishing, Sarah and I do the same here, only with our voices, tracing the evolution of book publicity from Legat's pre-2000 traditional publishing world, up to the present. We talk about the advent of the Internet and blogs, about gatekeepers and democratization, about how easy and boring life used to be for a publicist, about the shift to Social, about the importance of Goodreads, about producing trailers and Q & As for Youtube, about compiling lists, rocket science, passionate bloggers, influencers, the literary conversation, the continued relevance of the publishers' sales catalogue, geese, swans, "golden children," quality, and the imperative to make money, the Last Bookstore in L.A., and Toyota Corollas.
This week, the panel begins by pondering the longevity of the Jackass franchise, focusing on the latest addition, Jackass Forever, with Slate staff writer Sam Adams. Then, the panel watches the surprise Oscar Best Picture contender Nightmare Alley. Finally, the panel discusses the conversation-starter article from The Cut's Allison P. Davis, “A Vibe Shift Is Coming. Will Any of Us Survive It?” In Slate Plus, Sam joins the panel again to answer a listener's question about how knowing the ways in which people interact with their content (via the internet and SEO development) changes the way they write. Email us at culturefest@slate.com. Endorsements Dana: Criterion subscribers (and if you don't already, you should subscribe!) get a treat: a small program they're running called “Three Starring Laura Dern,” where they show three movies starring Laura Dern from the early days of her career including: Smooth Talk, Rambling Rose, and Citizen Ruth. Julia: A counter endorsement, or maybe supplemental endorsement?, for fans of The Last Bookstore in LA: Hennessey + Ingalls in LA, which is an art, architecture, and design bookstore. Steve: Josh Turner's cover of Lucienne Boyer's hit “Parlez-Moi D'Amour.” Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Nadira Goffe. Outro music is "Bloody Hunter" by Paisley Pink Slate Plus members get ad-free podcasts, a bonus segment in each episode of the Culture Gabfest, full access to Slate's journalism on Slate.com, and more. Sign up now at slate.com/cultureplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, the panel begins by pondering the longevity of the Jackass franchise, focusing on the latest addition, Jackass Forever, with Slate staff writer Sam Adams. Then, the panel watches the surprise Oscar Best Picture contender Nightmare Alley. Finally, the panel discusses the conversation-starter article from The Cut's Allison P. Davis, “A Vibe Shift Is Coming. Will Any of Us Survive It?” In Slate Plus, Sam joins the panel again to answer a listener's question about how knowing the ways in which people interact with their content (via the internet and SEO development) changes the way they write. Email us at culturefest@slate.com. Endorsements Dana: Criterion subscribers (and if you don't already, you should subscribe!) get a treat: a small program they're running called “Three Starring Laura Dern,” where they show three movies starring Laura Dern from the early days of her career including: Smooth Talk, Rambling Rose, and Citizen Ruth. Julia: A counter endorsement, or maybe supplemental endorsement?, for fans of The Last Bookstore in LA: Hennessey + Ingalls in LA, which is an art, architecture, and design bookstore. Steve: Josh Turner's cover of Lucienne Boyer's hit “Parlez-Moi D'Amour.” Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Nadira Goffe. Outro music is "Bloody Hunter" by Paisley Pink Slate Plus members get ad-free podcasts, a bonus segment in each episode of the Culture Gabfest, full access to Slate's journalism on Slate.com, and more. Sign up now at slate.com/cultureplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, the panel begins by pondering the longevity of the Jackass franchise, focusing on the latest addition, Jackass Forever, with Slate staff writer Sam Adams. Then, the panel watches the surprise Oscar Best Picture contender Nightmare Alley. Finally, the panel discusses the conversation-starter article from The Cut's Allison P. Davis, “A Vibe Shift Is Coming. Will Any of Us Survive It?” In Slate Plus, Sam joins the panel again to answer a listener's question about how knowing the ways in which people interact with their content (via the internet and SEO development) changes the way they write. Email us at culturefest@slate.com. Endorsements Dana: Criterion subscribers (and if you don't already, you should subscribe!) get a treat: a small program they're running called “Three Starring Laura Dern,” where they show three movies starring Laura Dern from the early days of her career including: Smooth Talk, Rambling Rose, and Citizen Ruth. Julia: A counter endorsement, or maybe supplemental endorsement?, for fans of The Last Bookstore in LA: Hennessey + Ingalls in LA, which is an art, architecture, and design bookstore. Steve: Josh Turner's cover of Lucienne Boyer's hit “Parlez-Moi D'Amour.” Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Nadira Goffe. Outro music is "Bloody Hunter" by Paisley Pink Slate Plus members get ad-free podcasts, a bonus segment in each episode of the Culture Gabfest, full access to Slate's journalism on Slate.com, and more. Sign up now at slate.com/cultureplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Born of Mexican immigrant parents, Janet Valdez grew up in the Los Angeles County area. She earned her certificate in recording engineering, as well as degrees in music business and business administration. While in school, she attended various service trips to Mexico, where she acted as an interpreter while providing humanitarian aid to her team. Loving international service, she later became an assistant country director with Global Expeditions on various humanitarian trips to Panama and Mexico, where she unknowingly developed her consecutive and relay interpretation skills. After a decade of working at the Disneyland Resort as a multi-language sales specialist, trainer, and bilingual Traditions facilitator, she studied Spanish legal interpreting at the Southern California School of Interpretation with Nestor Wagner. As part of her interpretation studies, she completed internships with Teen Court, LACBA Domestic Violence Project, and Harriet Buhai Center for Family Law. She later completed the University of Arizona's National Center for Interpretation Court Interpreters Training Institute. She is currently a traveling senior interpreter, serving different courthouses across the United States to interpret for the Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review (DOJ EOIR) and facilitating first-time interpreter orientations. She is a nine-time President of the United States Service Award recipient for her countless volunteer hours and the Harriet Buhai's 2020 Community Volunteer award recipient. She currently volunteers for the Los Angeles Dream Center as well as for Catchafire.When not interpreting or volunteering, Janet is the camera director at Angelus Temple and a video producer for the Spanglish Television Sports Network. She is also part of the “Ficción en Español” book club at the Last Bookstore in Los Angeles. Most recently, she was a speaker at the Lingua-Culture conference, where she shared the stage with other interpreters and translators speaking about her beloved profession.Connect with Janet ValdezLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janetvaldez/Blog: https://interpreterlyfe.com/-----------------------------------------------------------------------Connect with Mireya Pérez, Hostwww.brandtheinterpreter.comFacebookTwitterLinkedInInstagram---------------------------------SPONSOR INFORMATIONThank you to Liberty Language Services for sponsoring this episode!To learn more about Liberty Language Services, please visit: https://www.libertylanguageservices.com/To learn more about The Professional Medical Interpreter course, go to: https://bit.ly/pmi-course-btiFor a limited time only, you can get $50 off the full price of The Professional Medical Interpreter: A Comprehensive 40-Hour Medical Interpreting Course. Use the following coupon code at checkout: BTI50
I took my daughter on the Metrolink yesterday to downtown Los Angeles. It was quite a cultural experience from visiting the amazing "The Last Bookstore" establishment to seeing the devastating amount of homeless living on the streets in filth and squalor. What to do? First observe then think. That's a good start, so here are some observations and thoughts today...
I did something new yesterday--I rode the commuter train to Downtown Los Angeles. I saw a lot and learned a lot. It was quite an educational and cultural experience. Here are a few thoughts. Learn more about "The Last Bookstore" https://www.lastbookstorela.com
Dimitri and Khalid discuss Netflix’s recent portrayal of the 2013 disappearance and death of Elisa Lam at the notorious Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, Dimitri’s physical proximity to the action, the Dorner synchronicity, the endlessly analyzed elevator video, tHe WeB sLeUtHs, LAM-ELISA and the tuberculosis outbreak in Skid Row, the 2005 film "Dark Water", Chameleo-adjacent theories about invisibility cloak technology that actually does exist, bizarre synchronicities with the Last Bookstore’s website, and the unforgivable persecution of Morbid. For access to full-length premium episodes and the SJ Grotto of Truth Discord, subscribe to the Al-Wara’ Frequency at patreon.com/subliminaljihad.
This episode of Ladies of the Fright is brought to you by the Ladies of the Fright Patreon! We offer cool rewards at every tier, including early, ad-free episodes; bonus written, audio, and video content from special guest authors (this month we’ve got a special video from author Hailey Piper!); and the Patrons-Only podcast LOTF After Dark. Head on over to patreon.com/ladiesofthefright for all the gory details! Show Notes New year, new look, new music! We had such a great time celebrating three years with our live podcast webinar, co-hosted by the talented Kathryn E. McGee, horror author and moderator of the Thing in the Labyrinth horror book club via The Last Bookstore as well as the Skeleton Hour webinar series via the Horror Writers Association. We discussed the early days of the show and shared our vision for the podcast’s evolution in 2021. We were delighted to welcome several surprise pop-in guests—authors who’ve been particularly supportive of us and the show over the years. Special thanks again the following authors for sharing their time and generously giving away a book! Paul Tremblay: Website | Twitter Alma Katsu: Website | Twitter Stephen Graham Jones: Website | Twitter Tod Goldberg: Website | Twitter We were also delighted to be joined by Heather Scheeler, the incredible writer, artist, creator, and friend who designed our wonderful new podcast logo! We had so much fun collaborating (by which we mean, word-vomiting all our ideas in Heather’s general direction and her somehow using all that to create the gloriousness that is our new look!) with her on our podcast rebrand. Make sure you check out her art Instagram as well as The Mountain Practice—a really exciting project she will be kickstarting later this summer! And finally, an ENORMOUS thanks to all of you: our listeners. When we started this show we thought one or two people might listen. Three years and two awards later, you’ve proven us very wrong. Thank you from the very depths of our heart. Here’s to many more years to come! Stay dark & stormy.
Ep. 83Cecil hotel/ Stay On Main Hotel Welcome my friends to the first episode of 2021! We hope you all enjoyed our last episode of 2020, we did! We hope you all made it to the new year safe and sound. We're alive and well and we're going to take a much needed vacation. Where are we headed you may ask? Well we are going to head to sunny Los Angeles! Hopefully you passengers hang on and come with! Los Angeles, the city of angels, and tons of weird people and rich movie types that are better than we are...eh… Fuck em. We're not headed there for a tour of stars' homes, we're not headed there to further Jeff's acting career with casting couch auctions in some seedy office with a casting couch, no my friends were heading specifically to 640 south main street l.a. california! What sits at that address you may be wondering. Well it's none other than The Cecil hotel, aka The hotel Cecil, aka The Cecil, aka The stay On Main Hotel, aka whatever the fuck the next name is gonna be. That's right, the famous, or maybe infamous Cecil hotel. If this sounds familiar but you can't quite place it, well get to what's most recently made this place famous in a bit. But first buckle up cus here we go! The Cecil was built in 1924 by hotelier William Banks Hanner with partners Charles L. Dix and Robert H. Schops. It was supposed to be a destination hotel for international businessmen and social elites. Designed by Loy Lester Smith in the Beaux Arts style, and constructed by W. W. Paden[7] the hotel cost $1.5 million to complete and boasted an opulent marble lobby with stained-glass windows, potted palms, and alabaster statuary. The three hoteliers invested about $2.5 million knowing several other similar hotels had been constructed and opened in the area. They had the utmost confidence in their venture. Unfortunately for them, only a few years after opening the hotel disaster would strike. Not only would it strike the three hoteliers, but the nation as a whole. The country was plunged into the great depression. The Great Depression started in the United States after a major fall in stock prices that began around September 4, 1929, and became worldwide news with the stock market crash of October 29, 1929, (known as Black Tuesday). Between 1929 and 1932, worldwide gross domestic product (GDP) fell by an estimated 15%. By comparison, worldwide GDP fell by less than 1% from 2008 to 2009 during the Great Recession.[4] Some economies started to recover by the mid-1930s. However, in many countries, the negative effects of the Great Depression lasted until the beginning of World War II. The Great Depression had devastating effects in both rich and poor countries. Personal income, tax revenue, profits and prices dropped, while international trade fell by more than 50%. Unemployment in the U.S. rose to 23% and in some countries rose as high as 33% While this was happening the Hotel hung on as best it could to it's roots of being a destination for wealthy socialites, unfortunately those were heard to come by at that point. As the depression wore on, the area around the hotel became the infamous Skid Row. Now we're not talking the Sebastian bach fronted band that had so many great jams back in the day. To give you an idea of the area that the hotel was in and had to deal with while trying to keep clientele, here's a brief history: At the end of the 19th century, a number of residential hotels opened in the area as it became home to a transient population of seasonal laborers.[13] By the 1930s, Skid Row was home to as many as 10,000 homeless people, alcoholics, and others on the margins of society.[12] It supported saloons, residential hotels, and social services, which drew people from the populations they served to congregate in the area.[14] In June 1947, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) chief Clemence B. Horrall ordered what he called a "blockade raid" of the whole Skid Row area. Over 350 people were arrested. Assistant Chief Joseph Reed, who claimed that "at least 50 percent of all the crime in Los Angeles originates in the Skid Row area," stated that there had been no "strong arm robberies" on Skid Row as late as one week after the raid. Long time residents, however, were skeptical that the changes would last.[15] In 1956, the city of Los Angeles was in the midst of a program to "rehabilitate" Skid Row[16] through the clearance of decaying buildings.[17] The program was presented to property owners in the area as an economy measure. Gilbert Morris, then superintendent of building, said that at that point the provision of free social services to the approximately one square mile of Skid Row cost the city over $5 million per year as opposed to the city average of $110,000 per square mile annually.[16] The city used administrative hearings to compel the destruction of nuisance properties at the expense of the owner. By July 1960, the clearance program was said to be 87% complete in the Skid Row area.[17] With increased building codes during the '60s, owners of residential hotels found demolition to be more cost-effective than adhering to repairs. The total number of these buildings is estimated to have dropped from 15,000 to 7,500 over the following decade.[18] Many residents of the area found themselves homeless with the loss of half of the affordable housing provided by hotels.[18] 1970s through present EditSkid Row was established by city officials in 1976 as an unofficial "containment zone", where shelters and services for homeless people would be tolerated.[19] During the 1970s, two Catholic Workers — Catherine Morris, a former nun, and her husband, Jeff Dietrich — founded the "Hippie Kitchen" in the back of a van. Over forty years later, in March 2019, aged 84 and 72, they remained active in their work feeding Skid Row residents.[20] Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, many veterans of the Vietnam War found themselves drawn to Skid Row, due to the services and missions already in place there, and feeling outcast from other areas. Like those after World War II, many of them ended up on the streets. It was around this time that the demographics of Skid Row shifted from predominantly white and elderly to those here today Now that only takes us through the 70s but we can tell you, it didn't get any better after that. The reason we went through a small history of Skid Row is to show how the area had changed and the type of people that inhabited the area. The reason to show this will become evident…. Right… about… Now! By the 50s the hotel had become a place known to house transients and drug dealers and many unsavory types. This would lead to a history of murder, suicide and other tragedy. That would ultimately lead to takes of the hotel being haunted. The hotel would more recently become the location of a story that would capture the attention of the world due to its strangeness. So without further ado let's get into the craziness! Murders and murderers at the Cecil: One of several noteworthy guests of the hotel was Elizabeth Short, who you may know as the “Black Dahlia” after her 1947 murder in Los Angeles. She reportedly stayed at the hotel just before her mutilation, which remains unsolved. What connection her death may have had to the Cecil is not known, but what is known is that she was found on a street not far away on the morning of January 15 with her mouth carved ear to ear and her body cut in two. Some people say that this sorry of Short staying or being seen at the hotel are untrue but we like to think there's a connection, however we cannot confirm nor deny the validity of this claim and there is much conflicting reporting on this. There are some reports of sorry saying at a nearby hotel and just doing into the Cecil bar from time to time. Next up a confirmed and also unsolved murder at the Cecil. Georgina "pigeon" Goldie Osgood. On June 4th a 79 year old retired telemarketer named Goldie Osgood was found in her hotel room dead. The autopsy showed that she was beaten, stabbed and choked with a rag. Her hotel room was ransacked. Friends say they talked her merely minutes before her death. She was known for feeding pigeons at a nearby park and that’s how she earned her nickname “Pigeon Goldie”. She was staying at the Cecil hotel, where she was very liked and was a long time residence. Not much information can be found about her death. Only that a man named Jacques B. Ehlinger was arrested a few hours after her body was found. He had been seen walking in the same area Ms. Osgood would feed pigeons. He was covered in blood, but was later released due to lack of evidence. Several serial killers have called the Cecil home as well. Chief among them… good ol Richard Ramirez, the fucking Night Stalker. Now if you're listening to this podcast and you don't know who Ramirez is, we question why you're here! But as a refresher: Ramirez was a Satanist and a particularly awful human, even for a serial killer: He seemed to have no M.O. except to be as sadistic as possible.His victims — men, women, children — were chosen randomly and killed in a variety of ways, with whatever weapon was handy, often after a sexual assault. Most reports suggest that he influenced as a teenager by his cousin Mike, a Green Beret who bragged of committing horrific acts in Vietnam, and who later shot his wife to death in front of Ramirez.The Night Stalker was ultimately caught after a rape victim who’d been left alive got a look at his getaway car, a stolen Toyota that was found abandoned and connected to Ramirez by a single fingerprint. Once they had a suspect, police broadcast his name and face widely and Ramirez was recognized and beaten by a mob in East Los Angeles.He was convicted in 1989 of 13 counts of murder, five counts of attempted murder, 11 sexual assaults, and 14 burglaries, and sentenced to death. To which he said: “No big deal. Death always comes with the territory. I’ll see you in Disneyland.”Ramirez spent the next 23 years on Death Row at San Quentin, but died of Lymphoma in 2013. He was 53. “The Cecil and the Alexandria and the Twin Rosslyn hotels just become these giant coral reefs of the worst people in the world,” says Richard Schave, who runs Esotouric bus tours with his partner Kim Cooper, and makes the Cecil a featured stop on the “Hotel Horrors and Main Street Vice” package. “By 1990, the LAPD won’t go into [t hese places]. It was like, ‘If we’re called we’ll go in. But we’re not patrolling.’”That’s how a guy like the Night Stalker could operate there. Ramirez would return to the Cecil after a killing and ditch his blood-soaked clothes in the dumpsters out back, then walk into the hotel either naked or maybe in his underwear, none of which would have raised an eyebrow since the Cecil in the 1980s, as Schave put t, “was total, unmitigated chaos.”After all, that dumpster probably contained far worse things, and it wouldn’t have been weird to see a half-naked man wandering around a hotel renowned for vice and where the police rarely ventured. Drug dealers worked openly inside. The bodies of overdosed residents could linger in the hall for days. “No one wanted to be the person who called the cops,” Schave says. Another serial killer was known to live at the Cecil. In 1991, six years after Ramirez was caught and sentenced to death, a 41-year-old Austrian journalist named Jack Unterweger checked into the Cecil while he worked on a story about crime in L.A. for an Austrian magazine. Unterweger used his reporting work to secure ride-alongs with LAPD vice cops and those trips were revealed as scouting missions when it was later discovered that Unterweger was also a serial killer with a penchant for strangling prostitutes. It is suspected (but was never proven) that he chose the Cecil because of its connection to Ramirez.When Austrian police connected the strangulation deaths of three L.A. sex workers with a series of six unsolved murders back home — all of them prostitutes who’d been sexually assaulted and strangled with their own bras, using a distinct ligature — Unterweger fled and was arrested in Miami in February of 1992. Unterweger, it turns out, had started abusing prostitutes in his youth, and at age 24 he was convicted of strangling an 18-year-old German woman with her own bra, and sentenced to life in prison.Behind bars, Unterweger had been a model inmate, publishing poems, plays, and an autobiography that became a movie and his popularity made him a cause célèbre in the European arts community, which began to lobby passionately for his release. In 1990, after serving 15 years, Unterweger was granted parole, and almost overnight became a popular TV host and journalist. Within a year, he was in California, killing women again.In June 1994, an Austrian court convicted Unterweger of 11 murders and sentenced him to life with no chance of parole. That night, he killed himself in his cell — with a poetic twist. “He tied the ligature,” Schave said. “The signature ligature by which he killed all the prostitutes in Los Angeles and Vienna. That was his confession.” So those are murders and murderers connected and possibly connected to the Cecil. But the tragedy doesn't end there. There are many other crazy deaths from the Cecil. Mostly all suicides. During the Great Depression. Tens of thousands of Americans took their own lives during the late 1930s, creating the highest-recorded level ever—more than 150 per one million annually in 1937 and 1938, and In the 30s the Cecil had its share of suicides. In 1931, a guest, W.K. Norton, 46, was found dead in his room after eating poison capsules. A week prior, he had checked into the Cecil under the name "James Willys" from Chicago. This seems to be the earliest case of suicide at the Cecil. The following year, 25-year-old Benjamin Dodich was found by a maid in a room, dead by a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. In 1934, former Army Medical Corps sergeant Louis D. Borden was found with his throat slashed—he had written several notes about suicide while in the room including one that cited poor health as a reason for the suicide. In 1937, the body of Grace E. Magro was discovered wrapped in the telephone wires around the hotel. She later died at the now-demolished Georgia Street Receiving Hospital. Police were unable to determine whether Magro's death was the result of an accident or suicide. A year later, the body of 35-year-old US Marine Roy Thompson was found on the skylight of a nearby building after he also jumped from his room. He had been staying at the hotel for several weeks. In 1939, Navy officer Erwin C. Neblett was found dead after ingesting poison; he was 39 years old. Moving past the thirties we find more craziness and fuckery. In January 1940, teacher Dorothy Sceiger, 45, ingested poison while staying at the Cecil and was reported by the Los Angeles Times to be "near death." No further reports were published about her condition. In 1944, one of the youngest victims at Cecil Hotel had their life taken from them. Dorothy Jean Purcell, 19 years old, was staying as a guest at the hotel when she threw her newborn son from a window. Purcell did not know she was pregnant and woke in the middle of the night with stomach pains when she was sleeping next to her partner, 38-year-old shoe salesman Ben Levine. Not wanting to wake Levine, she went to the bathroom and delivered the baby herself. Purcell believed the boy was dead, and that’s when she got rid of the body from a great height. The lifeless baby was found on a roof adjacent to the building. Purcell was arrested, but after psychologists determined she was “mentally confused,” she was eventually found not guilty by reason of insanity. In November 1947, Robert Smith, 35, died after jumping from one of Cecil's seventh-floor windows. On October 22, 1954, San Francisco stationery firm employee Helen Gurnee, 55, jumped from the window of her seventh-floor room and landed on top of Cecil's marquee. One week prior, she had registered at the hotel under the name "Margaret Brown." On February 11, 1962, Julia Frances Moore, 50, jumped from the window of her eighth-floor room. We found the newspaper clipping announcing her death, it reads as follows: "A woman leaped to her death from an eighth-floor window of the Cecil Hotel, 640 S Main St., early Sunday morning, her body landing on a second-floor roof in the light well of the building. Police identified her from a hotel registration card and papers in her purse as Julia Frances Moore, about 50. Det. Sgt. Paul LePage said the woman, who left no notes, had registered at the hotel on Wednesday. Her purse and a small over night bag were found in the room. Although the purse contained only 59 cents, a bank book showed she had nearly c $1,800(around $15,000 today) in a Springfield (II.) bank. Sgt. LePage said he also found a bus ticket stub in dicating she had come here from St. Louis. Other papers I containing two home ad dresses in St. Louis were also found. The officer said he would contact St. Louis police in a an effort to locate the woman's relatives." Also in 1962, October to be exact, another strange death occurred. On October 12, two bodies were found dead on the sidewalk in front of the hotel. One of the bodies was that of Pauline Otton. She was staying on the 9th floor of the hotel. She was 27 years old and had just had an argument with her estranged husband Dewey. The other body was not that of Dewey. It was the body of 65 year old George Gianinni. Initially police suspected the pair jumped together. After some investigation however there found that Ol George has his haha on his pockets and his shoes were still on. They said that if he had jumped his shoes would have fallen off during the fall or when he landed, also who jumps with their hands in their pockets? Well turns out that after her argument Pauline decided it wasn't worth living any more and jumped from the window of her room on the 9th floor. George however was just walking by the hotel about to have the worst, and last, day off his life. Pauline jumped and landed on George as he strolled by killing him. Talk about your bad luck, no wonder some people think the place is cursed. On December 20, 1975, a still-unidentified woman, approximately 23 years old, jumped from her twelfth-floor window onto the Cecil's second-floor roof. She had registered at the hotel on December 16 under the name "Alison Lowell" and was staying in room 327. On September 1, 1992, a man was found deceased in the alley behind the Cecil. Authorities believe the decedent either fell from, jumped from, or was pushed from the hotel's fifteenth floor. At the time of his death, the decedent was five feet, nine inches tall and weighed around 185 pounds. He was wearing blue sweatpants and a black sweatshirt over a gray t-shirt. The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office placed the decedent's age at twenty to thirty-two years. The decedent's true identity has never been established. On June 13, 2015, the body of a 28-year-old man was found outside the hotel. Some conjectured he may have committed suicide by jumping from the hotel, although a spokesperson for the county coroner informed the Los Angeles Times that the cause of death had not been determined. Now in between those last two there was another incident. This incident is probably the most well known one. Thanks to the internet the incident spread fast and there is tons of discussion and speculation about what really happened. The official cause of death was listed as accidental drowning although most people don't by that. If you haven't figured it out already we are talking about the death of Elisa Lam. Wwe could probably do an entire episode on this story so we'll just give you the basics and maybe hit the story a little harder in a bonus for our patreon. On Jan. 26, 2013, Elisa Lam arrived in LA. She had just come by Amtrak train from San Diego and was headed to Santa Cruz as part of her solo trip around the West Coast. The trip was supposed to be a getaway from her studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where she was originally from. Her family had been wary of her traveling by herself but the young student was determined to go at it alone. As a compromise, Lam made sure to check in with her parents every day of the trip to let them know that she was safe. That’s why it struck her parents as unusual when they didn’t hear from their daughter on Jan. 31, the day she was scheduled to check out of her LA hotel, the Cecil. The Lams eventually contacted the Los Angeles Police Department. The police searched the premises of the Cecil but couldn’t find her. Police soon released surveillance footage taken from the cameras at the Cecil Hotel on their website. This is where things took a turn into the truly bizarre. The hotel video showed Elisa Lam in one of its elevators on the date of her disappearance acting rather strangely. In the pixelated footage, Lam can be seen stepping into the elevator and pushing all the floor buttons. She steps in and out of the elevator, poking her head out sideways toward the hotel’s hallways in between. She peers out of the elevator another few times before stepping out of the elevator entirely. The last minutes of the video show Lam standing by the left side of the door, moving her hands in random gestures. Nobody else was captured on the video, except Lam. On Feb. 19, two weeks after the video was published by authorities, maintenance worker Santiago Lopez found Elisa Lam’s dead body floating in one of the hotel water tanks. Lopez made the discovery after responding to complaints from hotel patrons about low water pressure and a weird taste coming from the tap water. According to a statement by the chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department, the tank in which Lam’s body was found had to be drained completely and then cut open from the side to remove her five-foot-four frame. Nobody knows how Lam’s corpse — floating lifelessly next to the same clothes she wore in the surveillance video — ended up in the hotel’s water tank or who else might have been involved. Hotel staff told authorities that Lam was always seen by herself around the hotel premises. At a nearby shop, eerily named The Last Bookstore, owner Katie Orphan was among the last to see Elisa Lam alive. Orphan remembered the college student buying books and music for her family back in Vancouver. When the autopsy results for Lam’s case came out, it only served to ignite more questions. The toxicology report confirmed that Lam had consumed a number of medical drugs, likely to be medication for her bipolar disorder. But there were no indications of alcohol or illegal substances in her body. Soon after the toxicology report came out, amateur sleuths began poring over any information they could find in hopes of solving the mystery behind the death of Elisa Lam. One person noted that she seemed to not be taking her medicine previous to her death. It is an important finding to note given that the use of antidepressants to treat bipolar disorder can risk inducing manic side effects if done without caution. Some sleuths have understandably latched onto this detail and suggested it was a likely explanation behind Lam’s strange behavior in the elevator. Hotel manager Amy Price’s statements in court strongly support this theory. During Lam’s stay at the Cecil Hotel, Price said that Lam was originally booked in a hostel-style shared room with others. However, complaints of “odd behavior” from Lam’s roommates forced Lam to be moved to a private room by herself. David and Yinna Lam filed a wrongful death suit against the Cecil Hotel several months after their daughter’s death was uncovered. The Lams’ attorney stated that the hotel had a duty to “inspect and seek out hazards in the hotel that presented an unreasonable risk of danger to [Lam] and other hotel guests.” The hotel fought back against the suit, filing a motion to dismiss it. The hotel’s lawyer argued that the hotel had no reason to think that someone would be able to get into one of their water tanks. Based on court statements from the hotel’s maintenance staff, the hotel’s argument is not entirely far-fetched. Santiago Lopez, who was the first to find Lam’s body, described in detail how much effort he had to exert just to find her body. Lopez said that he took the elevator to the 15th floor of the hotel before walking up the staircase to the roof. Then, he had to first turn off the rooftop alarm and climb up on the platform where the hotel’s four water tanks were located. Finally, he had to climb another ladder to get to the top of the main tank. Only after all that did he notice something unusual. “I noticed the hatch to the main water tank was open and looked inside and saw an Asian woman lying face-up in the water approximately twelve inches from the top of the tank,” Lopez said, as reported by LAist. Lopez’s testimony suggested that it would have been difficult for Lam to make it to the top of the water tank on her own. At least, not without anyone noticing. The hotel’s Chief Engineer Pedro Tovar also made it clear that it would be difficult for anyone to access the rooftop, where the hotel water tanks were located, without triggering the alarms. Only hotel employees would be able to deactivate the alarm properly. If it was triggered, the sound of the alarm would reach the front desk as well as the entire top two floors of the hotel. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Howard Halm ruled that the death of Elisa Lam was “unforseeable” because it had happened in an area that guests were not allowed to access, so the lawsuit was dismissed. All of the talk of the difficulty on even getting to the water tanks, especially the fact that no alarms were triggered only fueled more conspiracies and speculation. We may never know what really happened and it's another feather in the crazy creepy cap of the Cecil! There are stories of cold spots and shadowy figures. A news story went around a couple years ago of a ghost photograph, showing a shadowy figure outside of a window of the Cecil Hotel, looking like it was about to jump.There are stories of people saying that they see a woman who looks like Elizabeth Short and feeling like they’re being watched in the hotel. It’s a creepy place even though there are renovations and rebranding (the Cecil Hotel was renamed the Stay on Main), but, well, it’s hard to shake the sort of stories of the Cecil. Also early in 2021 the discovery channel is kicking off it's streaming service with a new episode of everyone's favorite… Ghost Adventures… Those idiots are at it again. The hotel and the Elisa Lam footage was the inspiration for the Hotel season of American horror story. It was also the inspiration behind the movie Barton Fink starring John Goodman and Johnathan Turturro. The hotel can also be seen in two popular music videos. The streets have no name by U2, where the brand performs on the roof of a building next to the Cecil. And in Blink 182 video for The Rock Show. The band is shown throwing money off of a single story building next to the Cecil, which may or may not be the same building u2 played on… Probably was though. Top hotel horror movieshttps://www.ranker.com/list/best-horror-movies-about-hotels/ranker-film
Since it opened in 1996, Skylight Books has become a fixture in the Los Feliz and a center of the neighborhood's literary community by hosting readings, book clubs, and launch parties. In the second installment of our “Art of Bookselling” podcast series, Air/Light‘s Claire Robertson talks to Mary Williams, the general manager of Skylight. Mary tells us about her favorite book of the year, comfort book buying in the run-up to the first lockdown, and how their customers are helping support the store throughout the pandemic. And remember: after you've listened, visit Skylight (or your own local bookshop) in person or online and buy a book or two. If you missed it, be sure to check out the first episode in the “Art of Bookselling” featuring Josh Spencer of Los Angeles' The Last Bookstore.
If literature is an ecosystem, then bookstores are its foundation. They're where literature intersects with community. They introduce people to new and idiosyncratic books while hosting events to support authors. Through it all, they serve as neighborhood community centers for readers and book lovers. But the pandemic has been hard on independent bookstores. Many have had to make direct appeals to their customers through GoFundMe and other crowdsourced campaigns. Local bookstores are facing what Dorany Pineda of the Los Angeles Times calls an “existential crossroads.” Losing our independent bookstores would be a truly devastating blow to the literary community and would only entrench the dominance of Amazon. A world without brick-and-mortar indie bookstores is not a world we want to live in. So Air/Light wants to help in our own small way. In a series of podcasts, we talk with the owners and workers at independent bookstores around Los Angeles to explore how they're moving forward during COVID, what they're looking forward to, what people are buying and reading, and more. Through this series we explore the art of bookselling. It's also our hope that after you listen to these interviews, you'll go online or in person—masked up and socially distant, of course—and support your local indie bookstore. In the first episode, Air/Light's Katarina Dames speaks with Josh Spencer, owner and operator of The Last Bookstore in Downtown Los Angeles. Listen to the interview and then go do some holiday shopping…locally and independently!
Today I book club with my friends Cathy, Kirsten, and the co-author of the book we read, Brooke Purdy! We go through our thoughts on the book and then Brooke takes us through her writing process, the most challenging part of writing the book, her collaboration process, ego, being accountable, and much more! Get Brooke’s Book “The Last Bookstore” on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Last-Bookstore-defense-extinction-knowledge/dp/0998179531 You can get the “Resilience Based Parenting” Course and apply for a scholarship at http://www.macdermottmethod.com/wotp Get a necklace/mask and a Wife of the Party bracelet by my friend Nathalie B Designs here: https://nathaliebdesigns.com/products/leeann-stack You can get 20% off Natural Skin Care, Hand Sanitizer, and more until the end of May at www.privai.com when you use the code “WOTP20” at checkout. Check out the new Wife of the Party Facebook groups here: http://www.facebook.com/pg/wifeotp/gr... I have WOTP merch! You can buy a brand new Wife of the Party mug, shirt, or a tote bag at http://www.wifeotp.com If you have any questions you would like me to answer on the podcast feel free to email me from my website at http://www.wifeotp.com Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast!
During the pandemic, the co-owners of downtown LA’s The Last Bookstore nearly ran out of money, laid off most of their staff, and closed their store. Then they began offering curated book bundles based on customers’ interests, conducting more online sales, and renting out their store for small events. The store is now back open for in-person shopping — at limited capacity and with mask requirements.
The gang geeks out on The Last Bookstore in Huntington Beach, California, SpaceX News, a re-cap of the latest episode of The Boys (Amazon), the Saturday Night Live fall premiere (NBC), The Comey Rule mini-series (Showtime), Jamie Foxx returning as Electro in Spider-Man 3, Regal Cinemas closing in the US, and some music and sports news. Geek Out: The Cabin in the Woods (Lionsgate, 2011) ******************************************************* Brew of the Day (Edgar's Pick): "Haze Twins (Double India Pale Ale)" a collaboration between Beer Zombies & Beer Thug Life A terrific blend of citra and mosaic hops. Begins with a hoppy kick, and ends with a smooth finish. Remember to drink responsibly. ******************************************************* Beat of the Week: "Build Me Up Buttercup" by Kina Grannis Kina Grannis gives us a beautiful rendition of the classic Build me Up Buttercup famously sung by The Foundation. Her voice conveys such shyness that enhances the vulnerability in that sweet voice. Be sure to check out the Geeks and Beats playlist on Apple Music and Spotify. ******************************************************* Stalk Us: Website: www.geeksandbrews.com Facebook, Twitter, Instagram Leave no beer behind and wash your f**king hands! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/geeksandbrews/message
Katie shares her experience as the manager of The Last Bookstore, the filming of Gone Girl, selling books to Ben Affleck, and meeting David Fincher.
洛杉矶市中心的The Last Bookstore（最后一家书店）是著名的网红打卡景点
洛杉矶市中心的The Last Bookstore（最后一家书店）是著名的网红打卡景点
洛杉矶市中心的The Last Bookstore（最后一家书店）是著名的网红打卡景点
Writer Kathryn McGee runs the popular horror book club at the Last Bookstore in Los Angeles, so we sat down to discuss how those things we love in real life can be replicated online, while we're all in our pajamas 24/7...
In which we recommend The Glass Hotel, interview the general manager of Buffalo Street Books, Lisa Swayze, and discuss the sub-genre, the paranoid campus novel.
In this episode, we're reviewing Regretting You, Colleen Hoover's latest novel which was published on December 10, 2019. Check it out for some book signing information, and our honest reviews of the novel. Make sure to let us know what you think of the episode and the novel here or on Instagram.
The Mysterious Death of Elisa LamRead at our website: We Saw the DevilWe have some new information that definitely changed our opinions. In this episode, we were joined by Jake Anderson, an investigative journalist and author who has dedicated the last 5 years of his life to solving the mystery surrounding her death. Jake's upcoming book, Gone at Midnight: The Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam, details this search for the truth. He hired private investigators, personally checked into the Cecil Hotel, and spoke with law enforcement officers and coroners who were originally assigned to the task force. Join us as we deep-dive into every aspect the case. TimelineJanuary 26th, 2013: Elisa Lam arrives in Los Angeles. Multiple sources say she checked into the Cecil Hotel 2 days later, however, CNN says she checked in the same day she arrived. She was supposedly put into a hostel-like room in the hotel that also had other female lodgers. The roommates complained of her odd behavior. She was then moved to a private room by the hotel staff.January 27th, 2013: She writes on her Tumblr about going out that night and not wanting creepers to hit on her. She then describes having a great night at the Speakeasy.January 31st, 2013: Her daily phone calls to her parents stop. This is the last time she is seen at the hotel. Elisa also went to The Last Bookstore, and employee Katie Orphan talked to her. She was purchasing books and vinyl records for her family. She also expressed worry about them fitting into her luggage.February 1st, 2014: The CCTV footage of the elevator catches Elisa acting strangely. The timestamp is blurred and unclearFebruary 6th, 2014: The LAPD holds a Press Conference at 1pm (available on Youtube) Last seen in the lobby in the late hours of the 31st by hotel staff. Never checked out. LAPD confirms she had booked into the Hotel Cecil for 4 nights.February 15th, 2014: The LAPD releases the CCTV footage of Elisa taken from the elevator to the publicFebruary 19th, 2014: Guests at the hotel begin to complain about the water pressure, the smell/taste/look of the water. There are reports of the water coming out of the faucet black. "The tap water tasted horrible. It had a very funny, sweet, disgusting taste. It's a very strange taste. I can barely describe it." Sabina Baugh said to CNN. Maintenance worker Santiago Lopez went up on the roof to look at the water tanks. He then found her body floating inside. "I noticed the hatch to the main water tank was open and looked inside and saw an Asian woman lying face-up in the water approximately twelve inches from the top of the tank. Author Jake AndersonWe had the pleasure of discussing the case with Jake Anderson. To learn more about Jake, or to check out his books, please see the following links:Jake's TwitterAmazon Page for Gone at Midnight: The Mysterious Death of Elisa LamJake Anderson's book,Gone at Midnight: The Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam"A Los Angeles hotel with a haunting history. A missing young woman. A disturbing video followed by a shocking discovery. A cold-case mystery that has become an internet phenomenon—and for one determined journalist, a life-changing quest toward uncomfortable truths."
The Mysterious Death of Elisa LamRead at our website: We Saw the Devil We have some new information that definitely changed our opinions. In this episode, we were joined by Jake Anderson, an investigative journalist and author who has dedicated the last 5 years of his life to solving the mystery surrounding her death. Jake's upcoming book, Gone at Midnight: The Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam, details this search for the truth. He hired private investigators, personally checked into the Cecil Hotel, and spoke with law enforcement officers and coroners who were originally assigned to the task force. Join us as we deep-dive into every aspect the case. TimelineJanuary 26th, 2013: Elisa Lam arrives in Los Angeles. Multiple sources say she checked into the Cecil Hotel 2 days later, however, CNN says she checked in the same day she arrived. She was supposedly put into a hostel-like room in the hotel that also had other female lodgers. The roommates complained of her odd behavior. She was then moved to a private room by the hotel staff.January 27th, 2013: She writes on her Tumblr about going out that night and not wanting creepers to hit on her. She then describes having a great night at the Speakeasy.January 31st, 2013: Her daily phone calls to her parents stop. This is the last time she is seen at the hotel. Elisa also went to The Last Bookstore, and employee Katie Orphan talked to her. She was purchasing books and vinyl records for her family. She also expressed worry about them fitting into her luggage.February 1st, 2014: The CCTV footage of the elevator catches Elisa acting strangely. The timestamp is blurred and unclearFebruary 6th, 2014: The LAPD holds a Press Conference at 1pm (available on Youtube) Last seen in the lobby in the late hours of the 31st by hotel staff. Never checked out. LAPD confirms she had booked into the Hotel Cecil for 4 nights.February 15th, 2014: The LAPD releases the CCTV footage of Elisa taken from the elevator to the publicFebruary 19th, 2014: Guests at the hotel begin to complain about the water pressure, the smell/taste/look of the water. There are reports of the water coming out of the faucet black. "The tap water tasted horrible. It had a very funny, sweet, disgusting taste. It's a very strange taste. I can barely describe it." Sabina Baugh said to CNN. Maintenance worker Santiago Lopez went up on the roof to look at the water tanks. He then found her body floating inside. "I noticed the hatch to the main water tank was open and looked inside and saw an Asian woman lying face-up in the water approximately twelve inches from the top of the tank. Author Jake AndersonWe had the pleasure of discussing the case with Jake Anderson. To learn more about Jake, or to check out his books, please see the following links:Jake's TwitterAmazon Page for Gone at Midnight: The Mysterious Death of Elisa LamJake Anderson's book,Gone at Midnight: The Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam"A Los Angeles hotel with a haunting history. A missing young woman. A disturbing video followed by a shocking discovery. A cold-case mystery that has become an internet phenomenon—and for one determined journalist, a life-changing quest toward uncomfortable truths."
Live from the Last Bookstore in LA, it's artist, illustrator and author LISA CONGDON!!!We interviewed Lisa about her new book, Finding Your Artistic Voice , and talked about time management, creativity, making a living as an artist, AND MORE. You can find Lisa's books, her store, and more at LisaCongdon.com. Produced live on the scene by Ponzini Linguini. Production assistance & heavy lifting by Chris Sutton.
Welcome back to the Not Real Art Podcast! Today we have a great friend, creative powerhouse and generally lovely citizen of the world on the show, none other than Anne Martin of Sugar Press Art! Anne is here to share her own creative journey, how she found her niche helping other artists get their work out there and why she is living the dream, doing exactly what she should be doing! Since art school, when she started realizing that she was always highly involved in her friends' and peers' artworks, Anne was destined to find her place in the publishing world, championing the work she loved and believed in. In our conversation, we talk about Sugar Press, how the agency started and its founding principles, before Anne breaks down some of her concerns for emerging artists, exposure deals and some tips for copyrighting and cataloging one's work. She shares about some of the artists she is excited to be working with at Sugar Press and the recent KAABOO event they hosted! For this and a whole lot more, join us for this great show! Key Points From This Episode: A little bit about Sugar Press Art, what they do and their three-year history! Some of Anne's early work in the publishing and art world. The holistic and collaborative approach that Sugar Press has adopted. Artists' responsibility to work on the marketing side of their career. Legal concerns and the frequency of uncredited use of artworks by big brands. Exposure bucks and how brands exploit artists to work for free. The price of copyrighting and cataloging pieces correctly. Some of the artists that Sugar Press is currently working with. The rise of legal psychedelics and how this impacts art openings. Sugar Press' event called KAABOO and some of the highlights from the exhibition. The constant instability of art prices and investing in expensive pieces. Big conglomerates that are buying up small independent galleries in New York. The project that Anne and Sourdough worked on together recently. Anne's concerns about showing art out of commission-based spaces. Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: Sugar Press — https://sugarpressart.com/ Anne Martin — https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-martin-7ba94042 Picasso — https://www.pablopicasso.org/ Pollock — https://www.jackson-pollock.org/ Edward Weston — http://www.artnet.com/artists/edward-weston/ Craigslist — https://craigslist.org Warhol — https://www.biography.com/artist/andy-warhol H&M — https://www.hm.com Cadillac — https://www.cadillac.com Mercedes — https://www.mercedes-benz.com Gillette — https://gillette.com Colette Miller — https://colettemiller.com David Young — https://sugarpressart.com/april-by-david-young-v/ Haydee Escobar — https://www.instagram.com/ibelieveart The Last Bookstore — http://lastbookstorela.com Erin Yoshi — https://www.erinyoshi.com Amanda Lynn — http://www.alynnpaint.com Virgin — https://www.virgin.com Richard Branson — https://www.virgin.com/richard-branson Target — https://www.target.com/ DesignerCon — https://www.designercon.com Man One — http://www.manone.com/ Man One on Twitter — https://twitter.com/ManOneArt Scott “Sourdough” Power — https://www.instagram.com/sourdoughpower/ Not Real Art Conference — https://www.notrealartconference.com/ Not Real Art on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/notrealartofficial/
Tayo Rockson is an international influencer having given 3 TedX talks, spoken in front of the United Nations Special Summit, contributing to Forbes and Huffington Post. He was also named "Top Millennial To Watch" by New Theory Magazine. Needless to say I'm a little excited to have him on the show. Tayo is the son of a diplomate and a Nigerian citizen that found himself living between cultures and trying to fit in to the world around him. In this very casual, candid conversation Tayo shares stories from his childhood that shaped him and the accident that propelled him forward. My favorite takeaways include: educate, perpetuate and communicate why do you believe what you believe? putting people in boxes do you live your values? being intentional about your self-education the danger of losing your rights because of your gender, race, or sexual orientation why racial jokes are dangerous to cross cultural relationships Join me on Monday Sept. 23 at The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles. Grab your tickets here Connect with Tayo here Grab Tayo's book Use Your Difference To Make A Difference Watch Tayo's talk at the United Nations
In this episode of “Surviving to Thriving: Overcoming My Darkest Moment”, I talk with Josh Spencer, paraplegic of 23 years and owner of the Last Bookstore in Los Angeles. Listen in as he takes us through his darkest moment that he experienced at the young age of 21 when he was in a horrific moped accident that resulted in him being paralyzed. After a series of additional losses and being diagnosed with depression, he started to become more ambitious and was able to move forward by creating the world-famous bookstore, the Last Bookstore. Learn about the Last Bookstore at: http://lastbookstorela.com/ and facebook.com/lastbookstore. Follow the Last Bookstore @lastbookstorela.
Danny talks with Adam and Gabe about their podcasts, Tommy and Alex, beer buds, jackin off, warming up, Adam's athleticism, The Land of Pussy, Nashville, Davey Arnold, cousin Gio, Mrs. Tarbeezy, elementary school, homeless people, peanut butter and honey sandwiches, Anthony Bourdain, hunting, midgets, the best wingmen, Danny's gay uncle, Adam's barbershop, Equanimeous St. Brown, Green Bay, The Raiders, The Black Hole, Gabe's lack of commitment to a Sports Organization, Notre Dame/USC Tailgate, Obama's speaking abilities, universal basic income, Halloween in West Hollywood, The Last Bookstore, first dates, STD's, Tommy the rat, Kinky Kong, my first boner, Brandon Proctor, Linbrook Bowling Alley, Karaoke, depression, staples, younger sisters, vegans, the sexiness of bread and pasta, zombies, gyms, pride month, and the new Hangover Heroes GoFundMe for their fantasy league. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alternatetakedm/support
While it may feel like books face an existential crisis in the shadow of digital media, reading communities are alive and well in an unlikely social media sphere: Instagram. Showing off what you're reading with a fancy cup of coffee is only a small part of the #bookstagram trend. Insta has become a powerful tool for author discovery (especially for female writers of color), community, accountability, and marketing the wares of independent book stores. Alli and Jen talk with Tammy Gordon, who challenged herself to read 100 books in one year, and Katie Orphan, manager of The Last Bookstore, the most Instagrammed bookstore in Los Angeles, about the future of reading in a social media world. Support 2G1P on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/2G1P Join us on Discord: discord.gg/2g1p Email us: 2G1Podcast@gmail.com Talk to Alli and Jen: https://twitter.com/alligold https://twitter.com/joonbugger Call the show and leave a message! (347) 871-6548 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Alexi is joined by Andi Eaton, founder of the holistic living and travel blog “Oui, We” and author of “Wanderful: The Modern Bohemians Guide to Traveling in style”. She is also throwing a retreat in Joshua Tree April 4-7 (full weekend and day passes available at forageandwander.com) Retreat gram: @forageandwander. Use the discount code FAWAlexi for $100 off! Her book is available: Amazon, Barnes & Nobles, check indiebound.org to find your closest local book shop. In LA: Book Soup, Chevaliers, Sky Light, the Last Bookstore (to make a few!) For everything else Andi related, visit her website: ouiwegirl.com and follow her on Instagram: @ouiwegirl
Heartbreak Coach Claire Byrne had a very bad break up that blindsided her just like mine! And it was the best thing that ever happened to her too. She came out the other side a powerful, often hilarious, always motivating coach leading women to the other side of heartbreak. We have so much in common she will be moderating my next Superhero of Love event at The Last Bookstore on April 4, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. Get your tickets (the price of a book) here now: Eventbrite -- Last Bookstore Event on 4/4/19 Find out more about Claire at her website Claire Your Mind: Claire Byrne Coaching Find her podcast How to Stop Wanting Him Back on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts
Sara Singer Schiff, Melissa Brohner-Schneider and Morgan Simpson created a podcast that is about to up your powers, Superhero of Love. They talk every week about failure -- in all its myriad forms -- and ease us toward letting go of our shame around it, embracing its lessons and even adding several doses of humor into the failure mix. They are all hilarious, smart and mighty hearts. You will LOVE them! In this episode Sara, Melissa and Morgan talk about the recent college admissions scandal, parenting, aging and even plastic surgery in a way that makes you almost want to run out and fail in a big way so you can let go of that huge weight of perfectionism and fly higher in your life - no matter what you are up to. Find their podcast wherever you get your podcasts or at The Other F Word Podcast. Just go ahead and subscribe to it, and once you've become addicted, don't forget to rate it and review it -- like you should rate and review THIS podcast right here! Also, remember to grab your copy of Superhero of Love: Heal Your Broken Heart & Then Go Save the World wherever you buy your books or Amazon. And if you are in Los Angeles, come meet Bridget Fonger at her book event at The Last Bookstore on Thursday, April 4 at 7:30 p.m.
“Stories, But Shorter” has it’s first live show at the Last Bookstore in Downtown Los Angeles with two great short story writers! Xuan Juliana Wang reads “Future Cat” from her upcoming book “Home Remedies”, and Matt Sumell reads “Toast” from his book, “Making Nice”. Host Cassi Jerkins, producer Jeremy Schmidt and the audience ask questions after each short story.. We have a great discussion about using humor to deal with the hardships of life, the uncertainty and agony of transitioning from young adult to adult, and grief. Links to Share Xuan Juliana Wang - http://www.xuanjulianawang.com Matt Sumell - https://www.mattsumell.com Follow “Stories, But Shorter” on Twitter & Instagram - @storiesbutshorter The Last Bookstore - http://lastbookstorela.com
On the November 26, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to about what they've been up to at the Water Cooler. You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Play, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (here is the RSS URL if you need it). Opening Banter: This is the first back to back watercooler episode in /Film Daily history. At The Water Cooler: What we've been Doing:Peter bought Kitra a fancy Breville Barista Express espresso machine for her birthday and they spent a day trying to figure that out. Jacob did a whole bunch of driving for multiple Thanksgiving engagements and visited the terrific Madness Comics and Games outside of Dallas. Brad spent Thanksgiving away from his family for the first time ever and didn't have turkey for Thanksgiving, dog sat a French Bulldog, went Black Friday shopping, found a cool Snitch ornament at Walmart. Ben celebrated the first annual Vince Guaral-Day, took his sister to The Last Bookstore, and finally stepped into the future with Amazon Prime (and Amazon Fresh) Hoai-Tran was surrounded by babies and dogs at her family Thanksgiving, and helped host her cousin's baby shower. Also went to her cousin's NY restaurant Di An Di, which is currently leading the Eater NYC Restaurant of the Year poll. What we've been Watching:Peter saw Creed II and Widows, and can finally share his quick reaction to Aquaman. Chris watched the Jim Carrey version of The Grinch, the entire expanded edition of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, started watching NYPD Blue on Hulu, and watched the Mac and Me episode of the new Mystery Science Theater 3000. Ben rewatched Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Brad saw Creed II, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, and Can You Ever Forgive Me?. Also watched an episode of The Final Table on Netflix. Jacob watched Thor: Ragnarok, the only movie in existence to appeal to an entire Thanksgiving gathering. He also sampled Netflix's The Final Table. Hoai-Tran saw At Eternity's Gate, the first episode of My Brilliant Friend, and watched The Princess Switch twice. What we've been Reading:Jacob dipped his toe back into Transmetropolitan. What we've been Eating:Peter ate a bunch of bad food while off his diet. At Friendsgiving he tried Ben and Amy's Shaqaroni and Cheese but fell in love with pumpkin pie dip and the very dangerous Caramel Apple Sangria. I also waited three hours in line for Howlin Rays. Jacob ate two Thanksgiving dinners and made peanut butter pie that he didn't get to eat. Brad was introduced to the majesty of the Tim Tam Slam, tried Sugar Cookie Toast Crunch, and had Indian food that he didn't hate. Hoai-Tran learned how to make pho in her new instant pot! What we've been Playing:Peter played some tabletop games on Friendsgiving and a game day, including Werewords, Hail Hydra, Detective, and Chameleon. Jacob played more Diablo III and Rogue Legacy. On the table, he played Hail Hydra, News@11, Azul, and Arboretum. He also tortured people with Twisted Sister's terrible Christmas album. Other articles mentioned: Shaq's Macaroni and Cheese Jenny Nicholson's 15 dumb things in Fantastic Beasts 2 All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today's show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes. /Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com. You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Play, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (RSS). Send your feedback, questions, comments and concerns to us at peter@slashfilm.com. Please leave your name and general geographic location in case we mention the e-mail on the air. Please rate and review the podcast on iTunes, tell your friends and spread the word! Thanks to Sam Hume for our logo.
The Cathy Heller Podcast: A Podcast for Soulful Entrepreneurs
How do you turn your pain into purpose, and then go on to create one of the most successful independent bookstores in the world? Josh Spencer has survived his own rough chapters of his life’s story, including a near-fatal injury and living on welfare. But instead of letting that get him down, he dreamed bigger, acted bigger, and created the Last Bookstore in Downtown Los Angeles, California’s largest used and new book and record store. He shares his wisdom on how to strengthen your mindset to transform the suffering into the sweet, why you have nothing to lose, and how to take control as the protagonist to your own life's story. - Grab the cheat sheet on How to Turn Pain into Purpose! https://dont-keep-your-day-job.mykajabi.com/josh-spencer - Join a DKYDJ meetup group! dontkeepyourdayjob.com/meetup-groups - Thanks to BioClarity! Get 15% off your first purchase by going to bioclarity.com/dreamjob - Thanks Skillshare! Skillshare.com/dreamjob for 2 months of Skillshare for just 99 cents. - Thanks Robin Hood! Get a FREE stock like Apple, Ford, or Sprint to help build your portfolio! dreamjob.robinhood.com - Thank you Ring! Get your special offer on a Ring Starter Kit at Ring.com/dreamjob
Kelan Phil Cohran In Conversation with Carlos Niño In 2012, multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator, and historian, Kelan Phil Cohran sat down with Carlos Niño at The Last Bookstore in downtown LA. Over the course of the interview, Cohran shares stories and insights from his vast experience not only as a musician but also as a dedicated historian and thinker. We hope you can join us for this unique journey through the life and work of a truly remarkable musician. Kelan Phil Cohran played a range of instruments from the trumpet, to the harp, to the Frankiphone, which he invented. He made significant contributions to the Sun Ra Arkestra during the 60s. As a major figure in Chicago, he influenced the formation of the world renowned Earth, Wind and Fire, was the father and mentor of 8 of the 9 members of the celebrated contemporary band Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, and lead the independent community based Artistic Heritage Ensemble. He is credited with helping to re-introduce the rich cultural history that had been lost or suppressed during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. “Language is the derivative of song” -Phil Cohran In Conversation is produced by dublab. Sound editing and music are by Matteah Baim. Due to rights reasons music from the original broadcast has been removed. To hear this broadcast in full, please visit dublab.com.
A conversation with Josh Spencer of The Last Bookstore in Downtown Los Angeles.
If Robert and Ira owned a bookstore, what do you think the chances are that it would be 90% smut literature? Well, this week Anti-wave reviews THE BOOKSHOP with manager of The Last Bookstore, Katie Orphan. Then, they talk about their Top 5 favorite mom and pop shop movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, or GooglePlay. Time to get out the tea cozy and embark on a journey into the literary world... of smut.
If Robert and Ira owned a bookstore, what do you think the chances are that it would be 90% smut literature? Well, this week Anti-wave reviews THE BOOKSHOP with manager of The Last Bookstore, Katie Orphan. Then, they talk about their Top 5 favorite mom and pop shop movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, or GooglePlay. Time to get out the tea cozy and embark on a journey into the literary world... of smut.
I bumped into Giovanni Marks/Subtitle at The Last Bookstore in DTLA and we decided now would be the time to record a conversation, so we walked across the street to Buzz Wine Beer shop. The employees were generous enough to let us post up and record - and this is that convo. It was awesome. http://getcrevlabs.com/ https://soundcloud.com/giovannimarks https://www.instagram.com/giovanni_marks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Who needs books when we've got movies?!? This week, Robert, Ira, and Kristiina show up at The Last Bookstore in downtown Los Angeles to discuss LEAVE NO TRACE. Then, they talk about their top 5 movies based on books. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, or GooglePlay. And if you don't like this episode, you can always read the book version.
Who needs books when we’ve got movies?!? This week, Robert, Ira, and Kristiina show up at The Last Bookstore in downtown Los Angeles to discuss LEAVE NO TRACE. Then, they talk about their top 5 movies based on books. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, or GooglePlay. And if you don’t like this episode, you can always read the book version.
Brea and Mallory talk about making bookish friends and interview author Bethany C. Morrow. Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Reading Glasses LIVE at the Last Bookstore with Paul Tremblay 7/1! Live Stream Book Pick - Circe by Madeline Miller- 6/5 at 7 pm! PST Join us! Links - Bethany C. Morrow https://twitter.com/BCMorrow MEM - out now! Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article Amazon Wish List Books Mentioned - Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker Golden Vance vol. 1 by Hope Larson, art by Brittney Williams and Sarah Stern The Lonely City by Olivia Laing The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North White Is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi Black Helicopters by Caitlin Kiernan After the Flare by Deji Bryce Olukotun Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Alternate Thursdays presents Bookstories, a podcast about the business and culture of bookselling in the 21st century. It features conversations with booksellers, publishers, writers and patrons. The first season of guests include: Parnassus Books, Tattered Cover Books, Book People, Books & Books, The Last Bookstore, Vroman's, Powerhouse, and Politics & Prose.
This special episode comes to you live from StokerCon 2018. Mackenzie and Lisa sat down with friend and fellow horror writer Kathryn E. McGee to talk about the highlights of the event. Show Notes: Paperbacks From Hell, My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix StokerCon 2018 Horror University Workshop DRILLING DOWN: GETTING HONEST WITH YOUR WRITING with Grady Hendrix "Summerland and Lost": Grady Hendrix’s dramatic spoke word presentation of the true story of the Fox sisters, key figures in the dawn of the Spiritualist movement. StokerCon 2018 Horror University Workshop WOMEN AND VIOLENCE: UNLEASHING YOUR FEMALE CHARACTERS’ DARK SIDES with Heather Herrman and Dr. Lauren Genovesi "The Debutante", a short story by Leonora Carrington Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier "Women In Horror Month" by moderated by Carol Gyzander with panelists Linda Addison, Meghan Arcuri-Moran, Amber Newberry, Kathleen Scheiner, Sara Tantlinger "Promoting Your Book to Libraries & Book Sellers" moderated by JG Faherty with panelists Grady Hendrix, J.H. Moncrieff, Becky Spratford, Jeff Strand Most libraries buy through Ingram and Baker & Taylor "Traditional v. Indie v. Hybrid Publishing" moderated by Kathleen Kaufman with panelists J.D. Barker, Rob E. Boley, Megan Hart, Jeff Menapace, Paul Tremblay "Shirley Jackson: Master of Horror" panel moderated by Jack Herringa with panelists Jennifer Barnes, Karen Bovenmyer, Nicole Cushing, Gwendolyn Kiste, and Paul Tremblay The Thing in the Labyrinth, a horror bookclub moderated by Kathryn E. McGee at The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles
A live recording at The Last Bookstore with Douglas Cowie, Tuna Bora, and Lon Koontz.Producer: Jon-Barrett IngelsHost: Jon-Barrett IngelsGuests: Tuna Bora, Douglas Cowie, and Lon Koontz
Today we're live at The Last Bookstore with Richard Gaffin, Veronica Bane, Jon Frechette, and Ashley Heaton. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Veronica Bane, Jon Frechette, Richard Gaffin, and Ashley Heaton
Today we're live at The Last Bookstore with Douglas Cowie, Tuna Bora, and Lon Koontz. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Tuna Bora, Douglas Cowie, and Lon Koontz
Today we're live at The Last Bookstore with Arianna Basco, Richard Gaffin, Ryan Gattis, Veronica Bane, and Kevin Staniec. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Veronica Bane, Arianna Basco, Richard Gaffin, Ryan Gattis, and Kevin Staniec
Today we’re live at The Last Bookstore with Arianna Basco, Corrie Greathouse, Ryan Gattis, and Jon Frechette. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Arianna Basco, Corrie Greathouse, Jon Frechette, and Ryan Gattis
LARB Radio was live at The Last Bookstore in Downtown LA this past Sunday at the Book Release Party for author Tim DeRoche's and illustrator Daniel Gonzalez's 21st century recasting of Mark Twain's American Classic: The Ballad of Huck and Miguel. Co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher facilitated the main event, a free flowing discussion with Tim and Daniel that captivated the overflow crowd with reflections on a book that, much like the original, illuminates many of the central concerns and crises of contemporary American society. Tim and Daniel explain the project's evolution: why Huck's companion Jim, a runaway slave, became Miguel an undocumented migrant; the Mississippi became the LA River; and how Los Angeles, with its limitless diversity and underappreciated nature, plays a staring role accentuated by Daniel's gorgeous prints. Once again, the searing social critique resonates because our hearts are drawn in by the battered-but-unbroken adolescent who finds on the river an older role model, something unavailable to him in "proper" society, in the person of a fellow outcast, Miguel - a human connection, as with Jim, all-but-forbidden by white America. Also, Dan Lopez drops by to share his Olympic Fever, by recommending a book that the Winter Games inspired him to read: Barbara Demick's study of life in the world's most closed and mysterious country, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea.
When Josh Spencer opened his business in Los Angeles, he called it “The Last Bookstore,” because so many others have gone out of business in this digital age. But in L.A., the problem is more than just Internet competition. That city treats used book stores the same as gunshops. Owners need a police permit, and must hold all books at least 30 days before selling them. Each book must be stamped with a number, corresponding to records identifying the book and where it was purchased, and sellers and suppliers must be fingerprinted. That applies to all books – even copies of the Constitution! Ruthless dictators may hate books, but this is America! People here should look through the Lens of Liberty, and instead of regulating copies of the Constitution, they should read it.
I am in Los Angeles! Another vulnerable one that is not nearly articulate enough for me to really be tackling these subjects publicly. Mentioned: Melodrama by Lorde, RELAXER by alt-j, The Last Bookstore (worth giving a look up), Tony Buchen (my music), Nick Littlemore (PNAU, Empire of the Sun), Amy Shark, Gang of Youths, Sarah Silverman, Aunty Donna, Kingdom Hearts Orchestra. 'Unassuming' was the word I was looking for to describe LA. Photo by www.benjaminriches.com.
This week Paul sits down with his old friend Steve W. Lauden, a rock drummer turned crime fiction writer. Steve was signed A&M Records in 1998 with his band Ridel High, for the album Emotional Rollercoaster. He was then signed to Hollywood Records with his band Tsar, whose eponymous debut came out in 2000. Tsar's sophomore release, Band Girls Money, was recorded while they were on Hollywood, and was later released on TVT Records in 2005, after Lauden had left the band. Tsar reformed in 2010 to release the Dark Stuff EP, featuring the original lineup. Steve continues to play and record with Tsar and a number of other musical projects. Most recently, Lauden began writing crime fiction. His debut novel "Bad Citizen Corporation" will be published by Rare Bird Books in October, 2015. His novella "Crosswise" will be released in 2016 by Down & Out Books. Paul sat down with Steve after his reading at The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles to talk about rock, drumming, dead bodies, screenplays, and other awesome subjects.
This week, we're talking about The Last Bookstore! Snappy answers to Stupid Questions! Dice Teeth McGraw! Man Man at Spaceland! The GIF as metaphor! The performance of curiosity! And of course, Iowa Corn Meetings!
After a brief hiatus, we’re back and we’re live! This episode has it all: nudity, cursing, Ayn Rand. Have fun and laugh along like you were there. (Episode 84 will come out next– we’re nonconformists like that.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
PEN Center USA presents The Rattling Wall, Issue 3 FEATURING: Benj Hewitt, Rhoda Huffey, Mandy Kahn, Amelia Morris, and Rachel Reynolds Join us as LA literary journal The Rattling Wall presents writers from Issue 3 reading their work. Drinks will follow the reading and signing. Benj Hewitt is a Los Angeles-based writer and winner of the 2012 John Steinbeck Short Story Award. He recently finished his first book When I Come Around, a coming-of-age memoir set in the Bay Area during the glory days of grunge and the dawn of the dot-com era. He has been long-listed for Ireland's Fish Publishing Short Memoir Contest and was a finalist for the 2012 Summer Literary Series Contest in Poetry. His essays on politics and parenting have appeared in Huffington Post and Modern Mom. Rhoda Huffey is the author of the novel The Hallelujah Side, which was chosen as a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers book. Her short fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, Santa Monica Review, and Green Mountains Review. She lives in Venice Beach, California. Mandy Kahn is coauthor with Aaron Rose of the nonfiction book Collage Culture, which was also released as an LP record with a score by No Age. Her recent appearances include readings, signings, and talks at Art Center College of Design, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, the Last Bookstore, Family, the Silver Lake Jubilee, the Shoreditch House (London), Motto (Berlin), Printed Matter (New York), Colette (Paris), the Celebrity Author's Luncheon for CALM (Santa Barbara), and Davies Symphony Hall (San Francisco). Kahn is writer-in-residence for the live event The Series, for which she writes poetry, prose, and experimental theater in collaboration with choreographers, musicians, and performance artists. Both her poetry and her prose have been anthologized. Amelia Morris lives in Los Angeles and authors the food blog Bon Appétempt. When she's not tramping around on trumped-up charges, she's writing, dancing, and prancing. Her handiwork has appeared on saveur.com, bonappetit.com, westelm.com, Gourmet Live, Refinery 29, the Los Angeles Times, and Elle Girl Korea. Bon Appétempt has won two of Saveur Magazine's Best Food Blog Awards: Best Culinary Essay in 2011 and Best Food Humor Blog in 2012. Additionally, her writing has been published in McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes and her first novel Will & Margot patiently awaits publication. Rachel Reynolds is a student of creative writing and classics at the University of Redlands Johnston Center for Integrative Studies. She has been the recipient of two first place prizes and a second place prize in the University's annual Jean Burden Prize for Poetry contest. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS FEBRUARY 2, 2013.
Alex Chiu (http://alexdoodles.com, "Eyeball Burp"), Keenan Keller (http://drippybonebooks.com, "Whore Eyes," "Galactic Breakdown"), and our old pal Tom Neely (http://iwilldestroyyou.com, "The Blot," "The Wolf," "Henry & Glenn Forever") join Gene and Brodie to chat about L.A. Zine Fest (http://lazinefest.com), running through February. Alex discusses his exhibit at Flock Shop on Feb. 11, Keenan & Tom discuss their readings upstairs at The Last Bookstore on Feb. 18, and we also cover independent publishing of comics and zines, outsider art, sex cults, proper use of the word "utilize," & Gene's next adventure in parenting as he takes a hiatus from Shakeytown Radio. Also, music by Tom's project, Self Indulgent Werewolf.
Bookstore Pop-ups, Hybrids, and Rebels: Why Indie booksellers are leading the movement to support and foster local businesses A panel discussion with maverick booksellers David Kipen, Andrew Laties, and Josh Spencer on why there is no better time to be in the book business. “For a while I was really interested in the future of books. Now I'm interested in the present of books.” – Jessica Stockton Bagnulo, co-founder, Greenlight Bookstore, Brooklyn (founded 2009) For the past decade, the book business has been dominated by conversations about chain stores, online retailers, and the e-book market, all of which pointed to the perennial uncertainty about the future of books generally. And yet from coast to coast a new wave of independent booksellers is staking a claim and embracing uncertainty to make the point: books are still here, and the future is now. Skylight books is pleased to welcome David Kipen (Libros Schmibros), Andrew Laties (Rebel Bookseller) and Josh Spencer (The Last Bookstore) for a panel discussion on why and how: Even in a treacherous economy, independent bookshops like Brooklyn's Greenlight Bookstore are opening and succeeding; Pop-up stores, like the current Libros Schmibros partnership with the Hammer Museum, are becoming the norm Independent bookstores are leading the movement to support locally owned businesses. David Kippen is the founder of Libros Schmibros, a hybrid lending library and used book shop in Boyle Heights. He is the former director of the National Endowment for the Arts' National Reading Initiatives, and past book critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, established Libros Schmibros in July 2010 Andy Laties is the author of Rebel Bookseller: Why Indie Business Represent Everything You Want to Fight For—From Free Speech to Buying Local to Building Communities. Laties co-founded Children's Bookstore, Children's Bookfair Company, Children's Museum Store, and Povertyfighters.com, and created the film Art of Selling Children's Books. He co-founded and still manages the museum shop at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts, which Parents Choice called “the very best bookstore for picture books in the entire world.” Josh Spencer is the founder of The Last Bookstore in Downtown LA. After selling books online for a decade, Spencer decided to go backwards in time and open up a physical used bookstore in 2009. With his neighborhood of downtown LA experiencing its own rebirth it seemed like the logical place to try retail time travel. The Last Bookstore did well enough for him to move into a new location 10 times as big less than two years later, and the rest is history in the making (as we speak). Moderated by Emily Pullen from Skylight Books. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS SEPTEMBER 11, 2011.
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