Tag Archives: bookstores

Ray Bradbury, venerable but clueless

Ray Bradbury spoke at Long Beach’s doomed Acres of Books last night. He said nice, touching things about the bookstore and his fondness for it. Right on. Then he said:…

Istanbul days

I’m in Istanbul. Today I took a ferry across the Bosphorus river to another part of Istanbul… the part that is in Asia. It was my first time on the…