I have no idea if Glen Young is still alive or not. Around 1983-84 I applied for a job at Applause Books. I had been lured away from the Drama Book Shop in 1981 with promises of better pay by a rival theatre bookshop with dreams of becoming a success, and I was looking for work again in 1983. I knew a couple of employees but I never heard anything. When I inquired about my application, I was told the job had been filled. I said to the clerk, Tell Mr Young he made two big mistakes: he never called me to tell me another person got the job and his biggest mistake was not hiring me.
I went on unemployment for a bit, worked for Theatre Books on West 42nd Street, and ended up at Classic Books on 48th Street and Sixth Avenue, a non-theatre Canadian bookshop chain I really liked. In 1985, I went back to The Drama Book Shop and stayed until 1997.