Iliad Bookshop’s Blogs

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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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 now interrupt the usual mentions of new books and/or Zola to announce that our own Lisa Morton has just received a Bram Stoker award nomination in the category of Superior Achievement in Non-fiction (for her book A Hallowe’en Anthology):

http://www.horror.org/news-2008stokernominees.htm

Trick or treat!

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Here’s a shout-out to one of Iliad’s regulars, Max, who has moved up to Oregon but is still kind enough to mention us in his great blog:

http://maxwellhoffmann.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/5-books-that-changed-my-life/

Max’s list of 5 books that changed his life is fascinating, too. Thanks, Max!

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We’ve just added a new section to our website’s shopping cart for Film books. Right now the section emphasizes technical film books and screenwriting books, but since film is one of our specialties here we plan on adding and expanding to this area on the website over time.

We’re also adding to the “Miscellaneous” section of the website, and started with a book on Bigfoot:

Bigfoot Sasquatch Evidence

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