The things you find in Florida
Let’s see if I can get this right. My great-grandfather was George Aaron Kellogg (I think — I might be missing a great). Although he was unmarried in 1903, the…
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Book reviews wanted, $5. Craigslist strikes again.
I can’t decide which is more offensive about this ad from Craigslist in Los Angeles: that they want to pay book reviewers a whopping $5 per 350-word review (about 12…
Go Jessica!
Jessica Stockton Bagnulo wants to open a bookstore, and the NY Times is on the story. I knew Jessica — aka Booknerd — as a colleague in the LitBlog Coop….
Jhumpa Lahiri on Rhode Island
Outtakes from my interview with Jhumpa Lahiri for the piece on “State by State” are up now at Jacket Copy. The photo above is from a 1977 newspaper clipping from…
Planet Brooklyn
My cousin is creating incredible photos that turn parts of the city of New York into planets. Although it’s not the most planet-like, this one is my favorite, I think,…
Amid all the woowoo Olympic hoopla
More people should be doing this. Not getting detained. But trying to point out the problems China has with a free and open society. (And Tibet, and whoever else is…
Mr. Ehrenreich: A Death on Terminal Island
Ben Ehrenreich’s story on a transgendered detainee — a Mexican native who was pulled over in LA for driving under the influence — who died in detention is in the…
Put that away!
Author Jonathan Evison (All About Lulu) is in town, or should I say the whirlwind tour that is Jonathan Evison. There will be a video interview with him on Jacket…
Flashback flashback: Cynthia Plaster Caster & Pamela Des Barres
The Viper Room, April 24, 1999: L. says there’s a lot of competition tonight. Smashing Pumpkins down the street (Roxy or Whiskey), Del Fi anniversary at Spaceland, Giant Robot rave…
This way to paradise
LA is really fucking cool. I get to write for Jacket Copy at the LA Times. I got to write book reviews for the LA Times, too. My apartment, built…
