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The Iliad gets some luv today from the LA TIMES, complete with pic of Dan and paragraph on Zola!

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We’ve been sitting forever on an original handwritten and signed J. D. Salinger letter, and finally decided the time was right to let it find a new home: Salinger letter on ebay

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We’ve just received large orders of brand new Lovecraft books from both Arkham House and Hippocampus Press (as well as lots of other great books), so c’mon down if you’re a Lovecraftian!

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Check out this cute and crazy video by Brittani Taylor, shot in the store earlier this week:

“I’m Not Easy”

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May Victor, who many of you know from her three years at Iliad, has left us to return home to Long Island. Please join us in wishing May a good trip and much success!

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Winter has officially arrived at Iliad today – Zola demanded her kitty condo!

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Our new Literature/Fiction room is now open, and Iliad Bookshop is now 5,000 square feet, with newly-installed and upgraded air conditioning and more parking! We also just added two gorgeous vintage couches for your browsing comfort – just don’t be surprised if you have to share a seat with Zola!

Iliad's new/old couches (and Zola)

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Iliad’s expansion continues apace:

This is what a mile of new shelving looks like!

And here's our new air conditioning!

As you can see, we have yet to place the new floor, but we’re still on schedule to open this new wing of the store in the first week of August. Double the Iliad soon…

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Bill during the Iliad Bookshop move in 2006

We were very sorry to learn this week of the passing of our colleague, former employee and friend Bill Tunilla. For more than 20 years Bill ran the House of Fiction Bookshop in Pasadena before joining Iliad’s staff in 2001. Bill had been a film editor prior to becoming a bookseller, but books were in his blood and House of Fiction was a popular gathering place for Southern California’s literati. Bill left Iliad in 2007 due to illness, and he passed away peacefully in his sleep on Tuesday, June 16, 2009. Bill was a baseball and Civil War fan, he loved cats and books, and he possessed a sly wit and sharp mind.

He’ll be very much missed in the Los Angeles book community.

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We’ve just acquired another 3,000 square feet (just to the north of our existing store), and we’re expanding! Here’s how it looks right now:

That's Iliad's own Davide Taddeo hard at work on the floor for the new space

As you can see, it’s just a big empty space right now, but three weeks ago it didn’t even look this good! We’ve made a lot of progress already, and are about to lay a gorgeous real wood floor (like the floor in our current store, but a different wood). Once the walls have been painted and the floor finished, we’ll start building fixtures and shelves, and finally two doorways into the current store. By August we hope to announce our grand reopening, at double our current size! Stay tuned.

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