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Let’s see if I can get this right. My great-grandfather was George Aaron Kellogg (I think — I might be missing a great). Although he was unmarried in 1903, the…

I read a lot of books for reviewing, or blogging, or — well, formerly, grad school. But I’m done with grad school. So I read this book … just because….

My review of “Abortion & Life” by Jennifer Baumgardner, out on Akashic Books, is in today’s LA Times. It opens: THE COVER is striking: a very pregnant blond with her…

Yesterday I went to the LA Observed party at the Formosa, with the help of Veronique, of LA Now/Here in Malibu blogging fame. There were some bloggers there I recognized…

I can’t decide which is more offensive about this ad from Craigslist in Los Angeles: that they want to pay book reviewers a whopping $5 per 350-word review (about 12…

Jessica Stockton Bagnulo wants to open a bookstore, and the NY Times is on the story. I knew Jessica — aka Booknerd — as a colleague in the LitBlog Coop….

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…

By now, everyone has heard that David Foster Wallace committed suicide Friday; Sarah notes that the news was at the top of twitter on Saturday. I have read him only…

Outtakes from my interview with Jhumpa Lahiri for the piece on “State by State” are up now at Jacket Copy. The photo above is from a 1977 newspaper clipping from…

“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…