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…
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Changes at the LA Times
For the last five years, David Ulin has been books editor of the LA Times, but that’s going to change. Today he announced that he’ll become the paper’s new full-time…
Ray Bradbury, venerable but clueless
Ray Bradbury spoke at Long Beach’s doomed Acres of Books last night. He said nice, touching things about the bookstore and his fondness for it. Right on. Then he said:…
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,…
75 is more than 56
In other words, more Americans read a book last year than did five years ago. 3 out of 4 Americans read a book last year; in 2002, that figure was…
Pennsylvanians: duck!
Dick Cheney will be hunting near Pittsburgh today at the Rolling Rock Club. He’s supposed to be shooting at pheasants and whatnot — but in the eyes of the VP,…
He was a bastard. But he was our bastard.
Donald Rumsfeld greets Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, December 20, 1983. Of the two, Rummy had a better 2006: all he did was lose his job. Saddam was executed today. Tawdry…
Get up! (get on up)
Woodstock Festival, 1999. James Brown kicks off the festivities with backup singers dressed likes mermaids, a bit of crazytalk and a whole lotta exacting showmanship. He sang “Sex Machine,” “I…
Hey there hottie
Salon piggybacks jumps on follows in the footsteps of People Magazine for its own Hot Dude of the year pronouncement. I like their geekchic. Steven Colbert takes #1. And who’s…
News is breaking out all over
The Tribune company continues its hellbent destruction of the L.A. Times, driving out respected editor Dean Baquet. More departures and cuts are sure to follow. In much better dumping news,…
