Tag Archives: carolyn kellogg

Festival, schmestival. Don’t miss Vroman’s on Tuesday

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,…

Txting, dfn8ly

Distracted by the bad news this weekend, I forgot to mention that my review of “txting: the gr8t db8” by David Crystal was in the LA Times on Sunday. I…

Festival of Books, here I come

So the LA Times Festival of Books is coming up and it turns out I’ll be moderating two panels, both chock-full of wonderful novelists. Saturday, April 25, 4:00pm First Fiction:…

Returning to Raymond Carver

Recently The New Yorker ran a piece on Raymond Carver and his relationship with editor Gordon Lish. A few things about the piece made me uncomfortable, including its lack of…

The New Yorker & Raymond Carver

Raymond Carver is perhaps the most esteemed short story writer of the latter half of the 20th century. His biography is well-known — an early marriage; a period of dissolution,…

Hot Metal Bridge-ing

Hello! How are you? Am I speaking too loud?! Do I seem a little awkward? My apologies. It’s just – I haven’t seen people in a while. I’ve been putting…

Vote for me!

Apartment Therapy is holding their 3rd annual fall colors contest, and my humble Pittsburgh abode is in the mix. Enough votes and I can win a gift certificate for furniture…

In good company

On the fair west coast, the LA Times runs my review of The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta today. The New York Times is all over this book, with a…