Marc Fitten is on a quest. He’s taking a cross-country road trip, visiting one-hundred independent bookstores, and documenting the process on a blog. As of this posting, he’s over halfway there, having most recently visited bookstore number sixty-five, Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe in Washington, D.C.. Fitten’s already made his sweep through Los Angeles, and it’s interesting to read his final impressions in light of an initial biased confession in which he admits, “I didn’t expect much in the way of Los Angeles bookstores after the bonanza by the Bay, but…”.
by Doug Matus
a writer from Texas who now lives in Los Angeles
