This way to paradise
LA is really fucking cool. I get to write for Jacket Copy at the LA Times. I got to write book reviews for the LA Times, too. My apartment, built…
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I get to go to Vermin!
Vermin on the Mount will be at the Mountain Bar in Chinatown this Sunday in LA at 8pm. Featuring work from four independent presses, celebrating its fourth birthday and magnificent…
Since you asked (or not)
I gave the house on St. Andrews Place a quick once-over on my way up the walk. It was wide, with a nice fat yard, two stories and a big…
don’s fountain of health
I wonder what ever happened to Don. Why did his shop close? Maybe people weren’t sure what he sold (although I think health food is a safe guess). Was the…
I second that fancy notion
May I take an interlude from my cranky self? Wow, I love my friend Elizabeth’s blog Fancy Notions. What’s it about? I don’t know. Old men on bikes who might…
My suggestion for a new LA Times publisher
She turned out, against all expectations, to have balls of steel. She had the highest journalist principles and trusted her staff to get things right. She even had a tolerance…
Liesl Schillinger: WTF?
Usually I appreciate Schillinger’s reviews, which is why I was astonished to find her bringing a bunch of paper-thin gender assumptions to Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen in the NY…
Covers judged, in pictures
The American Institute of Graphic Arts has announced the 2007 winners of their 50 books/50 covers competition. These are the best book covers as selected by designers, and include art…
Juding books by their covers at the New Yorker
Let’s say you’re working on a book. Let’s say you’d like for it to be reviewed in the pages of the New Yorker, and not sitting on the free-to-a-good-home book…
Linkety binkety boo
A short piece on Steve Erickson appeared in the July 2 issue of the LA Weekly, and I’ve just caught up with it. I’m not sure the author thinks about…
