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Ron, Kassia and Matt, live and in person.Kassia’s take on the book digitization panel is much more reporterly and thorough than mine; I highly recommend it (even though I still…

Here in Austin I sat down during the first panel yesterday on blogging and, remarkably, was right in front of the esteemed woman behind Booksquare. A real litblogger! Such a…

Here in Austin I attended a remarkable panel on book digitization. With Liz Lawley as moderator and folks from both Google Books and Microsoft’s book project (plus one academic), the…

Because liveblogging the Oscars for one site isn’t enough, I’m enthusiastically participating in Tireless Ed Champion’s group Oscar Blog. I’ll be at a private party in Hollywood, at a grand…

I have no idea what that subject line means. It’s part of the theme song to HR Pufnstuf, one of the many acid-laced 1960s TV creations of Sid and Marty…

So Kate Braverman sits down with the LA Times and tells the paper that she should be more famous here in her hometown. Martini Republic points out that she is…

Jonathan Ames is everywhere this week; the LA Times openly loved his new book, I Love You More Than You Know, in a review that ran yesterday. And Powells does…

I had a tough week over at LAist, where something I posted caused a riot of comments (many of which ran in the "you’re an idiot" vein). See, we LAist…

My sister just spent several weeks in Vietnam. And Cambodia. In fact, my sister has gone lots of places — luckily, she usually brings a camera. And she’s just relaunched…

The latest of my (still lagging) 75 books for 2006 were The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri and Stumbling and Raging: More Politcally Inspired Fiction, edited by Stephen Elliott. #4: The…