Book review and quotage
My review of Jonathan Ames’ The Double Life is Twice As Good is in today’s LA Times books pages. The book is not so great, and I couldn’t help but…
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The view from there
The fourth of July BBQ I could walk to was too good to pass up. At not quite two miles away, and up a dusty trail through a park, many…
Nietzche in the morning
Shortly after getting up I checked my Twitter feed — a weakness, to be sure — and saw that Alain de Botton was Tweeting quotes about anger. Here’s one: Angry…
A preamble of sorts
I’ve been puzzled by exactly what to do here on my personal blog. I used to write about books, but now I write about books on Jacket Copy. I write…
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…
What twitter is, this moment
Being on twitter right now feels like passing notes in the class of life. I’m sure someone else has already said that. And it won’t stay that way for long….
This should be a picture of Etgar Keret
On Thursday night I went to see Ben Ehrenriech and Etgar Keret at the LA Public Library’s ALOUD series. They were in conversation with the topic, “Is reality overrated”? Easy…
All the pronouns fit to misuse
From the front page of the NY Times, right now: Magazine Preview The Affluencer By SUSAN DOMINUS Lauren Zalaznick, the head of the Bravo network, has taken her own elite,…
The reading habits of dudes
A new study of 18-34 year-old males by Hall and Partners for Break Media shows that while new media is an essential part of young men’s lives, books are still…
wrongful imprisonment, lawsuit worth millions, death by scooter
Well-meaning friends ask me why I don’t get a scooter. I don’t want a car, I take the subway and walk. In LA, this is madness, apparently, and yes, it…
