![]() in the late ’50s and early ’60s with Ed Ruscha. Schwartzman is not so much a regular here as a fixture he is close friends with the store’s buyer, Tosh Berman, who is the publisher of TamTam books and son of the late Wallace Berman, the assemblage artist who started the mail art publication SEMINA and who was a part of the influential Ferus Gallery scene in L.A. The girls at the information counter at the back, who smile happily-not flirtatiously-when he comes over to ask them if they have the book on vintage toy musical instruments he’s been waiting for (they do-it’s in a pile which has been set aside for him) the guy at the front desk, who engages him in conversation about the store’s new T-shirts, which are printed with old book covers even the guy selling the magazines in the alley next to the store, which is on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, who greets him as we arrive and, much, much later, when we leave, laden down with books. ![]() HE MAY NOT BE A MEMBER OF HOLLYWOOD’S COMEDY CLIQUES, BUT JASON SCHWARTZMAN IS DOING JUST FINE ON HIS OWN.ĮVERYONE IN BOOK SOUP seems to know Jason Schwartzman. ![]()
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