Category Archives: media

My bookish life

Last week The Paris Review posted my Culture Diary on their blog — parts one and two — which proves that as an LA-based bookish reporter I sometimes get up…

What Malcolm Gladwell gets wrong about Free

Malcolm Gladwell reviews Chris Anderson’s Free in this week’s New Yorker — I wrote about the dust-up surrounding uncredited passages in the book and what the implications of Anderson’s error…

Noncrediting bozo steals photo. Mine.

That’s the picture. It can be found here, on Jacket Copy. It can also be found here, on the bozo’s website. Click to see the bozo’s version big, which shows…

Emily Gould ankles Galleycat

Emily Gould, onetime Gawker turned publishing industry blogger, has left Galleycat. Her tenure at the site began two months and six days ago. Emily Gould’s first Galleycat post; her last…

Tony Pierce is The King

Tony Pierce, the enthusiastic, wild, obsessive, peerless* editor of LAist is moving on to manage the blogs of the Los Angeles Times. Congratulations, Tony! Photo: That’s Tony in the center,…

100 Notable

The New York Times has printed 100 Notable Books for 2007. I’ve read 5, including Ian MacEwan’s slender On Chesil Beach, the hefty Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson, and…