Mar 12, 2022
Glenn Horowitz is an agent in the sale and
placement of culturally significant archives to research
institutions throughout the United States. 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.
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; Against The Tide Commentaries On A
Collection Of African Americana 1711-1987; Johnny Cochran; and
much more.