Million Writers
If you’re wondering which of the 128 stories in the Million Writers Award semifinals are by Los Angeles authors, never fear. I’ve managed to go through the list and post…
Category Archives: online
Oscar ramp-up
Because liveblogging the Oscars for one site isn’t enough, I’m enthusiastically participating in Tireless Ed Champion’s group Oscar Blog. I’ll be at a private party in Hollywood, at a grand…
Happy litblog day!
This year, Martin Luther King Jr. Day happened to fall on the unofficial LitBlog Day. To coincide with the latest announcement of the LBC, LAist.com features an interview with Los…
LA Times litblogs
The good ol’ LA Times is trying to get into the litblog game with a starter set of commentaries on Los Angeles literature from anti-fucktard crusader Tod Goldberg, memoirist &…
edging up the intellectual food chain
Powell’s books has begun having authors guest blog for a week and Susan Orlean is the lead writer/blogger. I am heartened that in her first post she writes about procrastination,…
Quincy podcasts!
83-year old Jack Klugman is blogging and podcasting for his new book, Tony and Me, croaky as all get-out. The stories he tells are a little too short in comparison…
good goodnight
I just finished listening to the Bat Segundo podcast with Jennifer Weiner and I highly recommend it. I have never been a fan of hers before — hated the title…
absolutely unrelated
The sound of the oughts, teens and twenties of the 20th century is now streaming at a computer near you, thanks to the (wax) Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at…
Geeks of lit
1. The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams 2. Nineteen Eighty-Four — George Orwell 3. Brave New World — Aldous Huxley 4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?…
Ladies on the mic
LibriVox points out a Wired News report about the Podcast Expo this past weekend in Ontario, California. Only 15% of the people who showed up were women. I wonder what…
