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,…
Tag Archives: reading
The reading habits of dudes
A new study of 18-34 year-old males by Hall and Partners for Break Media shows that while new media is an essential part of young men’s lives, books are still…
Right, earthquake
It hit while I was working away at my kitchen table. My building, which dates back to the 1920s, is 14 stories tall, with a brick exterior and 18-inch concrete…
To read and be pursued in LA
That there is Salman Rushdie on the right and Carrie Fisher on the left. I had a question about something she said in during the interview, so afterward I talked…
Transportation meditation
Yesterday I sold my Honda. It was a great little grad school car: didn’t break down with any costly repairs, could park anywhere, drove me all around the country last…
Hillary and Tod and Nicky Hilton and more
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…
From Barthelme to Vanderbilt
Maud’s giving away Barthelme! With delicious Pynchon intro, even. I’m not the only one who had a visit from Maryann Burk Carver. At the NEA’s Big Read blog, David Kipen…
Bedtime Reading with Conan O’Brien
Toward the end of his interview with Neil Patrick Harris last night, Conan O’Brien bemoaned interruptions of applause, which were slowing down the witty banter on stage. He imagined someone…
66 degrees. thank you, global warming.
Record-breaking heatwave here in Pittsburgh. It was 66 yesterday! Woohoo! Another record-breaker: AWP sold out. While last year I simply walked in and paid at the door, this year the…
To the 2 to the 0 to the 0 to the 8
David Kipen has Twain on the brain: Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. 5 Chapters kicks off with…
