While I was out
An orchid book appeared in the LA Times. And it’s one my dad worked on! So yesterday, and this morning for a while, on the books page there was a…
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In today’s LA Times: Douglas Fairbanks
In today’s LA Times, I review the new cinematic biography Douglas Fairbanks by Jeffrey Vance with Tony Maietta. In my years researching early silent film, I’d always skirted around Fairbanks,…
Dennis Loy Right-on
Sometimes Dennis Loy Johnson and I are thinking much the same thing. So close, in fact, it’s spooky. But never fear, we are still easy to distinguish. He remains far…
the cheese stands alone
Back in web 1.0, I worked at a music industry dot-com that, at one point, was the #3 music site on the internet. We grew so fast that they tripled…
Keeping busy
The Southern California chapter of the Mystery Writers of America invited me and Kassia Krozier and Lise Friedman, field rep for Macmillan, to talk about the future of publishing at…
By the time I get to Arizona
Driving into Tucson I used the roadtrip-enabling device (iPhone) to find a place to stay. The Hotel Congress was built in 1919 across from the train depot. It doesn’t have…
darn darn darn
The only bad thing about putting together a weekly list of book events for Jacket Copy is that I know what it is I’m missing. Like Jim Shepard was at…
Noncrediting bozo steals photo. Mine.
That’s the picture. It can be found here, on Jacket Copy. It can also be found here, on the bozo’s website. Click to see the bozo’s version big, which shows…
Oh noes! The bright spot on the LA radio dial just went dark.
Was it just this morning that I was listening to Indie 103.1 on the radio in the car while driving to work? I could have sworn it was. I heard…
