The Man Who Loved Books Too Much

Sep 17, 2009

Booksmith Bookstore

Allison Bartlett talked about her book The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession (Riverhead Hardcover; September 17, 2009). In her book she tells the story of John Charles Gilkey, who stole hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of books, and the rare book dealer who tracked .. Read More
Allison Bartlett talked about her book The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession (Riverhead Hardcover; September 17, 2009). In her book she tells the story of John Charles Gilkey, who stole hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of books, and the rare book dealer who tracked him down and brought him to justice. She responded to questions from members of the audience.

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TIME SPEAKER TEXT
00:00:39 Unidentified Speaker IN A FEW MINUTES I'M GOING TO READ FROM "THE MAN WHO LOVED BOOKS TOO MUCH" BUT FIRST I THOUGHT I WOULD...
00:12:27 Unidentified Speaker THAT'S WHEN I REALLY GOT NERVOUS. SO I WENT TO ANY QUESTION AS LONG AS THEY ARE -- THIS IS A NOVEL....
00:12:58 Unidentified Speaker SO WHERE IS GILKEY TODAY, AND HOW DOES HE SUPPORT HIMSELF WHEN HE'S NOT IN PRISON SO THAT HE CAN FEED...
00:13:08 Unidentified Speaker GOOD QUESTIONS. HE IS IN SAN FRANCISCO NOW AS FAR AS I KNOW. WHENEVER PEOPLE HAVE ASKED ME THIS QUESTION,...
00:14:15 Unidentified Speaker I HAVE A QUESTION. HAD ALL THESE RARE BOOKSELLERS THAT YOU HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH THESE LAST TWO YEARS...
00:14:29 Unidentified Speaker I'M NOT SURE. I THINK THEY HAVE MIXED FEELINGS FEELINGS. THOSE WHO WERE VICTIMS ARE STILL VERY ANGRY....
00:15:30 Unidentified Speaker THE QUESTION IS DOES HE GIVE THE BOOKS BACK WHEN HE GETS CAUGHT. ONLY IF HE HAS TO I SUPPOSE. HE...
00:17:11 Unidentified Speaker CASE CLOSED. IT IS VERY, VERY COMMON. , RARE BOOK DEALERS, IT IS A SIMILAR PROBLEM IN THAT BOOK COLLECTORS...
00:18:31 Unidentified Speaker OKAY. [INAUDIBLE]
00:18:38 Unidentified Speaker OKAY. THE QUESTION IS ABOUT I THINK HOW YOU'D EVEN QUANTIFY WHETHER A BOOK IS RARE OR NOT, AND WHY...
00:19:34 Unidentified Speaker BUT AS FAR AS WHAT MAKES A BOOK RARE, YOU KNOW, I FOUND, I ASKED THAT QUESTION A LOT AND I FOUND AS...
00:21:41 Unidentified Speaker I HAVE A PAIR OF QUESTIONS. ONE IS HE MUST HAVE SOME RATIONALIZATION WHERE THIS IS NOT A SIN, THIS...
00:22:07 Unidentified Speaker I WILL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER BOTH OF THOSE. HE DOES JUSTIFY IT IN MANY WAYS, BUT ESSENTIALLY HE SEES...
00:22:25 Unidentified Speaker I DID WALK AROUND AFTER HER THAT FOR A FEW DAYS AND THOUGHT HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO JUST THINK THAT....
00:22:56 Unidentified Speaker AND HE WOULD HARVEST RECEDES, FIVE TO 10 A WEEK AT ONE POINT. AND ALSO PEOPLE, THAT WAS WHEN THIS...
00:23:49 Unidentified Speaker I AM CURIOUS IF YOU EVER FELT THE DESIRE TO START COLLECTING BOOKS WHILE YOU ARE WRITING TO STORE...
00:23:58 Unidentified Speaker WELL, I THOUGHT THE COLLECTING BUG WOULD HIT ME WHILE I WAS WORKING ON BECAUSE I ALREADY LOVED OLD...
00:24:53 Unidentified Speaker I'M INTERESTED IN YOUR PROCESSES AS A WRITER. YOU SAID THAT THIS WAS REALLY A NEW AREA FOR YOU AND...
00:25:23 Unidentified Speaker OKAY. I HADN'T DONE A BOOK BEFORE AND I HADN'T EVEN DONE THIS TYPE OF PROJECT, BUT I HAD INTERVIEWED...
00:27:56 Unidentified Speaker CAN YOU GO UP TO THE MICROPHONE, PLEASE?
00:28:02 Unidentified Speaker TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE GILKEY, WHAT THE NATURE OF IT WAS, AND WHAT THE...
00:28:16 Unidentified Speaker SURE. YOU KNOW, HE WAS ALSO VERY EASY TO SPEAK WITH. I THINK, WHEN I FIRST MET WITH HIM IN PRISON,...
00:30:11 Unidentified Speaker DID YOU EVER FIND OUT, DOES HE STILL OTHER THINGS? DID HE EVER TALK ABOUT THAT?
00:30:18 Unidentified Speaker HE DID. YEAH, HE -- YOU KNOW, MOST COLLECTORS, I READ ABOUT COLLECTING, THE PSYCHOLOGY OF COLLECTING....
00:31:04 Unidentified Speaker HOW OLD WAS HE WHEN HE SOLD HIS FIRST BOOK WAX AND WEAR AND WAS IT AND WHAT WAS IT?
00:31:12 Unidentified Speaker HE WENT TO HIS BOOK FAIR -- FIRST BOOK FAIR, RARE BOOK FAIR IN 1997. SO HE WAS 29. IS THAT RIGHT?...
00:32:02 Unidentified Speaker YES, I KNOW SOME MORALS.
00:32:04 Unidentified Speaker DID YOU EVER HAVE TREPIDATION AND THAT CONTINUING? DID YOU GET NERVOUS WHEN YOU WOULD SPEND TIME WITH...
00:32:25 Unidentified Speaker I DID GET NERVOUS, ESPECIALLY WHEN ABOUT, AFTER WE HAD BEEN MEETING FOR SEVERAL MONTHS, HE STARTED...
00:33:46 Unidentified Speaker AND I SAID I'M NOT GOING TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION. SO WE DO AS JOURNALISTS, WE DO AFFECT THE ACTIONS...
00:34:07 Unidentified Speaker I'M KIND OF CURIOUS ABOUT THE CYCLE OF GOING TO PRISON AND BEING RELEASED, AND GENERALLY WE THINK...
00:34:41 Unidentified Speaker I THINK IT IS IN THE SPIRIT HE DID SAY MANY TIMES I'M NOT GOING TO COLLECT ANYMORE. BUT DID I TELL...
00:35:27 Unidentified Speaker YEAH, I'M NOT SURE. AT ONE POINT HE SAID THAT IT WASN'T THREE STRIKES, BUT THERE IS ANOTHER TERM,...
00:36:04 Unidentified Speaker THE DETECTIVE, KEN SANDERS, IS A BIG PART OF THE BOOK. YOU KNOW, WHEN I FIRST CALLED HIM, I STARTED...
00:38:20 Unidentified Speaker I DON'T REALLY KNOW ABOUT YOUR BACKGROUND AS A WRITER SO I AM CURIOUS ABOUT HOW YOU STARTED OUT AND...
00:38:46 Unidentified Speaker IT WAS A SECOND CAREER FOR ME BUT I DID A LOT OF THINGS BEFORE THAT, BUT WHEN MY KIDS WERE YOUNG,...
00:40:11 Unidentified Speaker THIS ISN'T EXACTLY ABOUT THE BOOK, BUT FROM THE INTRO, DID YOU EVER FIND OUT WHERE M COMES VOLUME CAME...
00:41:05 Unidentified Speaker WHERE IS THE BOOK NOW?
00:41:09 Unidentified Speaker THE BOOK IS DUE WITH MALCOM. HE IS TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO WITH IT. IS A BOOK THAT REALLY CAST...
00:41:29 Unidentified Speaker DID YOU EVER SEE WHERE HE
00:41:31 Unidentified Speaker JOHN COFFEE? NO.
00:41:34 Unidentified Speaker I'M JUST CURIOUS, IF HIS HOUSE REFLECTED HIS VISION OF WHAT HE WANTED TO BECOME. YOU ARE SORT OF BUILDING...
00:41:48 Unidentified Speaker I DID LIVE IN HIS CHILD HOME WHERE HE LIVED AS A CHILD. OUT IN MODESTO. AND INTERVIEWED HIS MOTHER...
00:43:18 Unidentified Speaker THROUGHOUT YOUR RESEARCH DID YOU EVER INTERVIEW OR FEEL COMPELLED TO INTERVIEW THE PRISON SYSTEM ABOUT...
00:43:26 Unidentified Speaker THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. NO, I DIDN'T. I THINK HE WAS PROBABLY THE LEAST OF THEIR WORRIES. YOU KNOW,...
00:44:34 Unidentified Speaker HOW HAS HE RESPONDED TO THE BOOK HAS HE READ AT?
00:44:38 Unidentified Speaker HE HAS NOT. HE IS EAGER TO SEE IT. I TOLD HIM I WANTED TO MAIL HIM A COPY, BUT HE SAID HE DIDN'T ...
00:45:10 Unidentified Speaker HELLO, JOHN. NO. HE MAY. I DON'T KNOW. [INAUDIBLE]
00:45:19 Unidentified Speaker YEAH, AS FAR AS I COULD TELL AS A CHILD HE HAD NO FRIENDS. HE HAD SEVEN SIBLINGS. HE HAD A BIG FAMILY,...

NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

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