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Katie Orphan

Katie Orphan
Katie Orphan is the owner of Orphan Books Inc., a book-business consultancy; before that, she worked at the Last Bookstore in downtown L.A. for a decade. The co-author of the Last Bookstore’s guide to downtown L.A. and the author of the recurring feature “Drinking with the Ghost” for the Los Angeles Review of Books, she’s been a longtime literary explorer. She earned a BA in English literature from Whitworth University and an MA in literature and history from the University of Sheffield, where she studied with experts in literary tourism. Orphan lives in Los Angeles, where she always finds new places to explore.


Finding Octavia Butler’s Pasadena

Katie Orphan Traces the Late Author Through Her Papers
March 13, 2020  By Katie Orphan
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The World’s Most Beautiful Bookstores, Gathered in One Place

Katie Orphan Reports from a Conference of Booksellers in Portugal
August 31, 2017  By Katie Orphan
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Bookselling in the 21st Century: When Your Store is a Photo Op

Katie Orphan on the Problems of Having a Beautiful Bookstore
May 17, 2017  By Katie Orphan
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A Literary Long Weekend in Los Angeles

A Bookish Visit to the Land of Bukowski and Didion...
September 9, 2016  By Katie Orphan
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Literary Los Angeles: Against not-entirely inaccurate stereotypes

Maria Wyeth, Neil Young and coyotes
August 4, 2015  By Katie Orphan
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Highlights from the LA Times Festival of Books

Claudia Rankine, Valeria Luiselli, and Handselling on the Internet
April 20, 2015  By Katie Orphan
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