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I love me some LA times festival of books. I’ve been soaking in it all day, and I think the panels will be great, the stages, the crazy big campus,…

“State by State” is an amazing anthology in which 50 contemporary writers take on our 50 states; I write about it in Friday’s LA Times. For the article, I talked…

I waited a long time to get to this book. Gosh it’s good. At the bottom of the steps, he passes through the lost-articles room, lined with pegboard, furnished with…

I started reading a book last night, a book I thought would be fun. It didn’t grab me, but I was sleepy. So I crashed and after getting up, I…

Tod Goldberg posts some fantastic photos of a 1990 Jane’s Addiction show. One really captures the dynamism of Perry Farrell’s movement and the crunch of the crowd into the band….

My review of Girl Factory by Jim Krusoe ran this past weekend in the LA Times (forgive my BEA myopia). There is more to the novel than one can responsibly…

I’ve gone to Book Expo twice before, and still I feel entirely unprepared for BEA 2008. The first year, it was in Washington DC. I stayed at an unfortunately expensive…

But reference books are, when Gwenda writes about them for PW. So are Houston stoners, who decided a skull-shaped bong wasn’t authentic enough. What exactly happened the night of August…

Mark Sarvas, who is a litblog friend, has published his first novel (Harry, Revised); it was reviewed in Sunday’s New York Times. Gawker characterized the review as “extraordinarily mean-spirited,” and…

In Salon, Rebecca Traister writes of Clinton fans growing weary of “Obama boys” bashing their candidate. I teach freshman composition, and I promise you, the “Obama boys” in my class…