Read Me, Los Angeles: Exploring L.A.'s Book Culture

About the author

Katie Orphan was the long-time manager of The Last Bookstore in downtown Los Angeles, where she worked 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. Now the manager at Libreria Bookshop in Hollywood, Orphan lives in Los Angeles.