Recent content by trona39

Um...to quote a former Baroque Books customer, Tom Waits: "There's nothing wrong with her a hundred dollars wouldn't fix she has that razor sadness that only gets worse with the clang and the thunder of the Southern Pacific rolling by I've seen it all I've seen it all through the yellowed...

Thanks Bill - I was led here by the relative absence of "electronic" information on Red, and was glad to find such a good site. Went back to N. Las Palmas four months ago for the first in 17 years...and boy was that a mistake. It's mostly better left as fond memories - much as I've found...

Red was difficult to get to know, and worth knowing. From '85-'90, I'd visit him and buy books. Specifically, John Fante and Charles Bukowski. Like many others, I went for the stories, which were hard earned - he asked me to leave on my first visit because I picked up a signed first edition Wm...