With Book Soup Owner’s Death, LA Store’s Fate Undecided

“What will happen to Book Soup? Like most great bookstores, it is the product of one book lover’s taste and vision. Most of the store’s 60,000 volumes were handpicked by [owner Glenn] Goldman for a clientele he knew intimately after 33 years in the same neighborhood.” Though Goldman died this month “without a succession plan in place for Book Soup,” his death does does not dictate its end.