From Annie Bloom’s Books September 7, 2024: We are incredibly sad to share that the beloved founder of Annie Bloom’s, Bobby Tichenor, passed away earlier this week. Bobby opened Annie Bloom’s nearly 46 years ago, in the fall of 1978 (while she was still in law school), and has been sharing her love of books …
Though it’s not an easy thing to come by when you run an indie bookstore, the owner and the manager of Southwest Portland’s Annie Bloom’s Books each took advantage of “A Lucid Interval” (believe it or not, the store’s almost-name 33 years ago) to share with OregonLive some reasons why 2011’s evaluation and 2012’s outlook …
Before the first official reading of my book, Little Green (Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts, 2010), at Annie Bloom’s Books in Multnomah Village, I was a little nervous. That evening in June on the final night of the NBA playoffs, I took the #44 bus to The Village, my old neighborhood. In the early 90’s …
