Borders SM Building Demolished

ON THE ROAD Marathon Readers

Kerouac at the Hammer/Libros Schmibros - ON THE ROAD Marathon Reading

Libros Schmibros Bookstore at the Hammer

Westwood Village Mystery Bookstore to Close January 31st

The Mystery Bookstore
January 11, 2011

Dear Customer,

We have very much enjoyed owning the Mystery Bookstore in Los Angeles.

We've appreciated your patronage, your company, and your support in the time that we've owned the store. Unfortunately, we, too, are going the way of too many independent bookstores. We simply cannot compete with the Amazons of the world and the impact of the economy. We love the bookstore and mysteries and the relationships we've formed with authors, publishers, agents, publicists, and our customers. But, we do have retirement to think about (not in the near future!), and family and, well, all of those things that require money. So, it is with considerable sadness that we announce that The Mystery Bookstore, Los Angeles, will--after many years (and as apparently the last-standing bookstore in Westwood, other than UCLA's student store)--be closing.

Our last day will be January 31, 2011. We plan to have a "goodbye" and "thanks for the memories" party that evening, starting at 6:00. We'd love to have you join us one last time . Meanwhile, we'll be doing the biggest sale in our bookstore's history--many books for $2.00, British and collectibles at 50% off, and new releases at 35% off (which puts us right up there in the company of the big discounters, who, ironically, are one of the reasons that we that cannot continue). We hope you'll come take advantage of this pricing. We have lots of wonderful books, and lots of collectibles.

We will miss the events, the author signings and launches, and the Festival of Books. But, we anticipate that the Mystery Bookstore will continue in a considerably more limited form--with recommendations, collectibles, and eBooks--on the Internet on our current website. We'll keep you posted on that front, and will hope that you will come visit us there. Meanwhile, we hope to see you all at our goodbye.

Kirk Pasich and Pamela Woods
The Mystery Bookstore
1036-C Broxton Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024
310/209-0415
contact@mystery-bookstore.com
http://www.mystery-bookstore.com/

Ghost of Legendary Either Or Bookstore

Altadena Halloween: Wicked Lit at Mountain View Mausoleum & Cemetery

Larry Edmunds on the Dirty Boulevard

Another West L.A. Bookstore Bites the Dust

 

We drove out to Santa Monica to spend the rainy day on the pier. Driving through West L.A., I spotted another bookstore had closed. Gene de Chene Books is gone. I'd been a regular at Gene de Chene since my schooldays at UCLA. I bought and sold a lot of books there. I had a lot of great finds and spent more than a few rainy afternoons browsing their shelves. The store will be remembered and missed.

 

Walkabout: Book Soup & Mystery Pier Bookstores

On My Walkabout:

Book Soup is one of the last remaining Independent Bookstores in Los Angeles. At least it seems like that. I've been going to Book Soup since it opened. I have a memory of parking in their rear lot once during a heavy downpour. I think I waited out the cloudburst and then ran into the store.

I haven't been to the Mystery Pier Bookstore. I live in Westwood and frequent the Mystery Bookstore there. Next time, when I'm not walking.

I can't stop, got to keep moving. The traffic is still bad.

What's the Mystery About Westwood's Mystery Bookstore?

 

 

Zocalo at the Hammer: John Fante's 100th Birthday

Zocalo at the Hammer:

John Fante's 100th Birthday

"John Fante is a quintessential Los Angeles writer who penned the beautifully desperate words in Ask the Dust: 'Los Angeles, give me some of you! ...Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town.' Los Angeles was his muse and inspired him to write some of the most influential prose about the American immigrant experience and the development of a young writer ever to reach print. A panel of Fante fans and scholars visit Zócalo to celebrate his work."

Hammer Museum

10899 Wilshire Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90024

Phone: 310.443.7000

Thursday, April 7, 2009 - 7 p.m.

John Fante - wiki

Reading at the Century City Mall

B&N Booksellers - West L.A.

Reading at the Mall - Century City

Alias Books - Sawtelle - West L.A.