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May I take an interlude from my cranky self? Wow, I love my friend Elizabeth’s blog Fancy Notions. What’s it about? I don’t know. Old men on bikes who might…

Over at Jacket Copy, Gustavo Arellano — the columnist behind ¡Ask a Mexican! — pulls double shift to answer some questions from me.

Barbara Bauer, a literary agent, has sued 19 defendants in New Jersey over unflattering remarks made about her on the internet. She is upset about being included in a list…

Ed Park’s novel Personal Days is set in a company drastically downsizing. This flickr set of the empty spaces left behind as the San Jose Mercury News downsizes perfectly illustrates…

Last night Ed Park read from his novel Personal Days at Book Soup in West Hollywood. West Hollywood is a teeny part of Los Angeles, teeny, that is, as long…

There’s a new NEA report on artists and work. Yesterday the NY Times reported that “Among artists under 35, writers are the only group in which 80 percent or more…

USC has pulled the plug on the excellent Online Journalism Review (via). Nice going, alma mater. (bad) Cecil Castellucci wins the 2007 Shuster Award for Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Writer,…

I continue to write about my cross-country drive on Jacket Copy. But it is possible that I have in fact reached my destination. Which does not yet have regular internet…

But reference books are, when Gwenda writes about them for PW. So are Houston stoners, who decided a skull-shaped bong wasn’t authentic enough. What exactly happened the night of August…

Yesterday I sold my Honda. It was a great little grad school car: didn’t break down with any costly repairs, could park anywhere, drove me all around the country last…