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October 10, 2005: Larry Portzline Discusses Bookstore Tourism
"The idea for Bookstore Tourism came to Larry Portzline in 2003. At the time Portzline was a writing and literature teacher in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. One day he was talking to a colleague about “backdoor” restaurant tours in New York City, and it struck Portzline, a man so in love with books that he’s starting a blog called Over-Readers Anonymous, that the concept could be adapted to bookstore tours. The first trip he organized—a bus tour of the indie bookstores of Greenwich Village, New York—sold out in two weeks, and Bookstore Tourism was born."
