What Joan said
I admit, Joan Didion could cough up a hairball and I’d think it was smart and interesting. No hairball at the LA Times Fesitval of Books last weekend; just a…
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LA Times festival of books roundup (part 1)
My experience at this year’s Festival of books was defined by two things: helping set up the Vermin on the Mount/Swink Magazine booth and hitting as many LA/California related panels…
Joan Didion at the LAT FOB
Joan Didion with LA Times Book Review editor David Ulin at UCLA’s Royce Hall on Saturday, April 29. The thing that struck me the most about Joan Didion was how…
Upcoming Ellroy
The American Cinematheque launches its 8th annual noir festival this Friday and James Ellroy is going to be there. He’ll be talking right after Crime Wave, the first half of…
More fun in the new world
Tonight editor Stephen Elliott will be at Skylight with a handful of contributors to the new Stumbling and Raging: More Politcally Inspired Fiction: Neal Pollack, Aimee Bender, Chris Abani and…
Too much Thursday
LA has no shortage of literary events, but we aren’t drowning in them, either. So the occasion of conflicting excellent readings rarely happens. Sigh: this Thursday is the exception. Tod…
S-A-TUR-DAY – night!
This Saturday, ladies and gentlement, at the dark yet dazzling Mountain Bar on the fabulous Chinatown Plaza, it’s Vermin on the Mount! Featuring: BoingBoing editor MARK FRAUENFELDER is the author…
80 degrees and sunny
Today is an amazing LA day, the kind that makes me wonder why the entire country hasn’t moved here. No snow, no transit strike, clean(sih) air, bright blue sky and…
Saturday and Saturday
Why, oh why did they do it? The ever-wonderful Vermin on the Mount reading series will be this Saturday Nov.12, as always, at the Mountain Bar with an eclectic array…
