Oh, to be in Brooklyn on August 18!
Or in a Korean restaurant in NYC with a galley of Junot Diaz’ long-awaited novel, The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao!
Wanted: good-looking book collection. With helpful hints from 250+ annoyed readers. (via)
A book that’s in my collection and Anne’s, too, is Best American Essays edited by Robert Atwan. It’s Anne’s husbands, actually. And I’ll be teacing from it (yipes! my first class ever!) in the fall.
Did I say too much? In today’s LA Times: Ed Champion on getting confessional.
The skinny on the Phil Spector trial, by me: Lana’s orange friends, Punkin Pie’s world, boozing like Phil, and a not-testifying madame.
What, no more Batboy?
Laura Lindeen, author of Petal Pusher, pops in at Largehearted Boy with a playlist for her memoir. Aw, no songs by her hubby Paul Westerberg’s band, The Replacements.
Read a book read a book. Also, brush your teeth.
In very sad news, LA/NY blogger/videogame creator/filmmaker Teresa Duncan committed suicide July 10; apparently, her longtime boyfriend followed suit 8 days later.
