Glenn Horowitz on being a "notorious" bookseller & archives dealer

Published: March 12, 2022, 7:04 p.m.

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Glenn Horowitz is an agent in the sale and placement of culturally significant archives to research institutions throughout the United States.\\xa0 Authors, artists, musicians, designers, and photographers represented include Bob Dylan, Norman Mailer, James Salter, Eve Babitz, Deborah Eisenberg, David Foster Wallace, Vladimir Nabokov, and many more.
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We spoke recently via Zoom about his practice: what he does and how he does it. Topics covered include polyps; making bookseller websites accessible to the disabled; looking for and selling value; Sting and estates; the disappearance of printed bookseller catalogues; the human touch; Hemingway; unique copies; avoiding book fairs and bookseller associations; nostalgia; unorthodox archives; the Kitchen Sisters; unused video games; the fact that every bookseller is now an archives dealer;\\xa0 Against The Tide Commentaries On A Collection Of African Americana 1711-1987; Johnny Cochran; and much more.\\xa0
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