“An addictively irresistible tour through pop culture past and present.”-Chicago Tribune

That’s what everyone is saying about Author Chris Eptin’s new book, “It Happened Right Here”.

Author Chris Epting established a new genre in book publishing when a trio of titles in the early 2000s-James Dean Died Here: The Locations of America’s Pop Culture Landmarks, Elvis Presley Passed Here, and Marilyn Monroe Dyed Here: The pop culture road trip. Epting promptly followed these hugely popular and influential titles with two more legendary books: Led Zeppelin Crashed Here and Roadside Baseball.

Now, in honor of the 20th anniversary of James Dean Died Here, Epting has produced It Happened Right Here: America’s Pop Culture Landmarks, which collects the best of the best from all of Epting’s prior books, and then adds dozens and dozens of new sites, many of them based on the pop culture of the 21st century.

It’s a road map for pop culture sites, from Patty Hearst’s bank to the garage where Apple Computer was born. Fully updated, the book includes such new entries as:

. Locations celebrating the legacy of legendary musician Prince

. The dorm room where Facebook was created.

. The location of the opening freeway sequence from La La Land

. and dozens and dozens of other new sites!

Featuring hundreds of photographs, this fully illustrated, updated, and revised encyclopedic look at the locations of the most famous and infamous pop culture events includes the fascinating history of over a thousand landmarks-as well as their exact location.

Here’s Gary’s fascinating interview with Chris Epting.