WPA, in posters
I wrote a short blurb on the new book Posters for the People: Art of the WPA that ran in Sunday’s LA Times. The piece appeared with several illustrations; the…
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Review of The End at the LA Times
That would be Salvatore Scibona’s “The End,” which reviewed last week for the LA Times. It was hard, in a relatively brief review, to describe the book’s complex strucure without…
Dear LA City Council: cutting libraries is terribly wrong
With all of California facing a budget crunch, the city of LA is facing difficult cutbacks. The first round of funding cuts has been proposed — recommended by the city’s…
Vermin report: at the Mountain Bar
Sunday night brought another night of Vermin — the Vermin on the Mount reading series at Chinatown’s Mountain Bar. Poet Dan Kaplan, political chronicler Josh Bearman, and novelist Janet Fitch…
Goodbye Jerry and Rocky
Jerry Yang is out as CEO of Yahoo. In his goodbye e-mail to all of Yahoo, he proves the concerns about the literacy of the dot-com generation are valid. “i”…
In the LA Times: poet Douglas Kearney
LA-based poet Douglas Kearney does some pretty cool work. And he just got a Whiting Award, which, at $50,000, is also pretty cool. OK, those are both understatements. I write…
Something I did write for the LA Times
A review of The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford in the 11/9 paper. Here’s how it starts. The collection “The Drowned Life” raises a banner to salute the power of…
Some shit isn’t appropriate for the LA Times
Mainstream media is catching on to the power of blogging in many ways, but one thing they haven’t embraced is prolific profanity. At the LA Times book blog Jacket Copy,…
Congratulations President Obama
Every state where I have lived for a year or more — Florida, Rhode Island, Virginia, New Hampshire, California, New York and Pennsylvania — helped to make Barack Obama President….
This should be a picture of Etgar Keret
On Thursday night I went to see Ben Ehrenriech and Etgar Keret at the LA Public Library’s ALOUD series. They were in conversation with the topic, “Is reality overrated”? Easy…
