carolyn kellogg

The New Yorker takes note of S.A. Griffin’s poetry bomb on its book blog, the Book Bench. Go SA. Go Book Bench. Go poetry. Go bombs. Oh, wait….

I tried to read a book today, planning to write about it. I got up at 5am and read the book, marking the places that were interesting. It’s a marketing…

And there was much rejoicing.

And wrote about it for the LA Times Tech Blog. And it got dugg.

I was excited to learn that Kassia Krozser (aka Booksquare) would be on PBS’s News Hour tonight. Hooray for book bloggers! Also exciting: she would be appearing with former LA…

I wonder what ever happened to Don. Why did his shop close? Maybe people weren’t sure what he sold (although I think health food is a safe guess). Was the…

She turned out, against all expectations, to have balls of steel. She had the highest journalist principles and trusted her staff to get things right. She even had a tolerance…

A short piece on Steve Erickson appeared in the July 2 issue of the LA Weekly, and I’ve just caught up with it. I’m not sure the author thinks about…

Holy ice shards, Batman. Ice = water. Water = possibility for life forms we understand. Ice on Mars! What’s next — spiders?

Per Petterson’s “Out Stealing Horses” is currently the bestselling book at Powell’s. Which makes me feel not so bad about saying it just didn’t do it for me. Initially, I…