My Relentless Pursuit of the Obnoxious Newly-Appointed Assistant Bookstore Manager
by Robert M. Katzman © 2021
In 2007, I owned a back-issue magazine store known as Magazine Memories which existed from 1985 to 2016.
At its peak of success in late 2000, the store carried 150,000 periodicals going back to 1576, served a range of people around America seeking old magazines as birthday gifts and as far away as Hong Kong, where a lovelorn Chinese clerk at an Internet company once called me to purchase a rare 1952 American Vogue to give to a woman he greatly admired to gain her affection. Cost was no issue to him, and I never learned if he was successful after giving her what seemed to both of us to be the last available issue of that Vogue in the world.