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David Ulin will be on KPCC’s Air Talk with Larry Mantle today, around 10:30am Pacific — that’s 89.3FM in socal, online elsewhere. Ulin has also talked to Publisher’s Weekly about…

I’m heading to the Fairbanks Center for Motion Picture Study for my third day of research for my thesis. Stumbled across a 1926 letter from DW Griffith to Adolph Zukor,…

I’ve gone to Book Expo twice before, and still I feel entirely unprepared for BEA 2008. The first year, it was in Washington DC. I stayed at an unfortunately expensive…

I’m very excited to be blogging over at the Los Angeles Times’ book blog, Jacket Copy, starting, well, yesterday. And continuing daily, along with contributions from the paper’s book review…

Longtime Los Angeles literary nonprofit Beyond Baroque may lose its lease. It’s been in its location, in Venice, for decades. This isn’t simply a matter of changing real estate realities….

Tony Pierce, the enthusiastic, wild, obsessive, peerless* editor of LAist is moving on to manage the blogs of the Los Angeles Times. Congratulations, Tony! Photo: That’s Tony in the center,…

The coolest thing I’ve read all day: Mark Sarvas’s first novel is funny and sad, rueful, wised-up and curiously moving. A remarkable debut. – John Banville, winner of the Man…

So a bunch of us went to Musso & Frank’s for a martini, then across the street to Skooby’s for a hot dog. We see that they’ve got one framed…

Yesterday I sat in as guest editor at LAist. And there was much posting. 7/27 birthdays a monkey in his pants Hot Hot Heat comes to town James Ellroy: HUSH…

The LA Times has been book blogging this month. The paper still has some details to work out (like getting the posts up the day they’re written, not 3 days…