Pity the fool
Jim did a pictorial roundup of last month’s Vermin on the Mount. Note to self: tipping head down is bad. I listen to NPR about 28 hours a day, but…
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Unusual bedfellows
Simon & Schuster launched a weekly podcast last fall. Typically they take 3 authors, throw parts of their audiobooks together, and voila! It’s a smart repurposing of content. Although next…
More fun in the new world
Tonight editor Stephen Elliott will be at Skylight with a handful of contributors to the new Stumbling and Raging: More Politcally Inspired Fiction: Neal Pollack, Aimee Bender, Chris Abani and…
Big Lonesome Cosmopolis
I’m getting a wicked slow start on my 75 books. Book #2: Big Lonesome by Jim Ruland.The only way I got through the brutality and sadness of the first story…
Everybody’s getting Frey’d
So tonight Paul Auster hit LA in conversation with the David Ulin. Sounds like the only thing we got that San Francisco didn’t get came from Ulin, who said it…
Too much Thursday
LA has no shortage of literary events, but we aren’t drowning in them, either. So the occasion of conflicting excellent readings rarely happens. Sigh: this Thursday is the exception. Tod…
Gillian Anderson is Lady Dedlock
Thanks goodness I’ve already finished Bleak House, because I’d have no chance of getting through the Dickens classic before the PBS series starts tonight. The good news is that Gillian…
Happy litblog day!
This year, Martin Luther King Jr. Day happened to fall on the unofficial LitBlog Day. To coincide with the latest announcement of the LBC, LAist.com features an interview with Los…
S-A-TUR-DAY – night!
This Saturday, ladies and gentlement, at the dark yet dazzling Mountain Bar on the fabulous Chinatown Plaza, it’s Vermin on the Mount! Featuring: BoingBoing editor MARK FRAUENFELDER is the author…
Liza Palmer podcast of fun
Liza Palmer visits Pinky’s Paperhaus to talk about her debut novel, Conversations With the Fat Girl. It’s the story of two best friends who bond over being fat; as they…
