Brett Brezniak 1971-2022
The Iliad Bookshop family lost one of our own yesterday (7/14), with the abrupt passing of employee Brett Brezniak. Brett suffered from a variety of […]
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LA Times names us one of the “65 Best Bookstores in L.A.”
This was a nice surprise: the April 14, 2022 issue of the LA Times ran an article on the “65 Best Bookstores in L.A.,” and […]
Remembering Bob Johnson
The Iliad’s longtime employee Bob Johnson passed away on January 24, 2022, of a massive heart attack. Bob was much loved for his sense of […]
The Things We Find in Books Part 2
A while back, I wrote a post about some of the odd physical objects we’ve found in books, ranging from (ahem) revealing photographs to marijuana […]
Iliad’s Mural V 2.0
In October, we were devastated to discover one morning that a significant part of our beautiful mural had been vandalized. A week later, it happened […]
Why Decorators Matter
I occasionally hear one of my bibliophile friends disparage decorators. “Oh, they only want green books,” they’ll say as they sneer and drip contempt. I […]
Editions for the Armed Services
During World War II, one of the most unusual paperback imprints ever appeared. A non-profit organization called the Council on Books in Wartime wanted to […]
A History of Iliad’s Halloween Shirts
Have you ever looked at our yearly Halloween shirts and wondered why we do them? How did this tradition start? First off, this tradition didn’t […]
Dracula in 1901
I recently catalogued a book called Dracula: The Rare Text of 1901. Wait, what? I know of the alternate versions of Frankenstein, but Dracula also […]
The Things We Find in Books
I was recently chatting with a friend who mentioned that she often stuck dollar bills in her books, and I replied by talking about the […]