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While most of the country was knee-deep in Easter baskets, I was home getting a blog post ready and reading twitter and planning a sortie to purchase Cadbury Creme Eggs…

Tomorrow is the 100th anniversary of John Fante’s birth, and I wrote an article for the LA Times about how his work — particularly “Ask the Dust”– has survived. I…

On Friday, I was parked for 3 hours in a neighborhood full of wee million-dollar bungalows, surrounded by cars worth a lot more than my 9 year-old Toyota. Why, then,…

“Exercising the blogging might help curb the desire to pollute Twitter,” Young Manhattanite writes. While I would like to think my tweeting has low levels of toxicity, it’s clear that…

Yesterday I wrote about The Morning News’ Tournament of Books on Jacket Copy. It started interestingly, with both an obvious win and an upset. On the no-duh winning side, big…

At the online journalism review, Tom Grubitsch writes of Jacket Copy: But the blog, with its multiple authors, lacks personality. His other complaints I’ll leave alone, because I’m sure there…

Now I just need to find a couple of ebooks and take the thing out for a spin.

I took a picture of artwork based on the writing of David Foster Wallace (it’s the 3rd slide). I didn’t know Wallace; I just happened to be near the artwork…

Cecil Castellucci’s book Beige is coming out in paperback, and to celebrate she’s asked a bunch of people to giver her punk music lists. Mine is personal, rather than definitive…

My review of Andrew Mueller’s “I Wouldn’t Start from Here” is in the books pages of today’s LA Times. Here’s a bit: A droll rock journalist turned travel writer, Andrew…