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My review of Alan DeNiro’s Total Oblivion, More or Less appears in today’s LA Times. Here’s how it starts. Macy Palmer would be living the life of a normal Midwestern…

Possum Living was published in the late 70s as a sassy guide to anti-consumerist living. Mostly ideology-free — unless you count a cheerful curmudgeonliness as an ideology — the book,…

When Dominick Dunne died in August of this year, he was in the last stages of editing his novel Too Much Money, out this week. What’s interesting about the book…

It’s been a long time since I read the NY Times book review. Chalk it up to business and professional disinterest — I never have enough time to read everything…

Yesterday, Nielsen announced that it would shutter several publications, including the review-o-matic Kirus, Kirkus, for its willingness to go negative. I never wrote for Kirkus, and as I haven’t published…

This week I reviewed the book In My Father’s Shadow by Chris Welles Feder for the weekly magazine of the California Report. The show is broadcast by public radio stations…

After several weeks on the road, writing and blogging and a whole summer stacked with more responsibilities than you could shake a crashed hard drive at, I’m back. Lately I’ve:…

When I first read Thomas Pynchon, his oeuvre consisted of three novels — V, The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity’s Rainbow — and one collection of short stories, Slow Learner,…

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…

Malcolm Gladwell reviews Chris Anderson’s Free in this week’s New Yorker — I wrote about the dust-up surrounding uncredited passages in the book and what the implications of Anderson’s error…