Review of The End at the LA Times
That would be Salvatore Scibona’s “The End,” which reviewed last week for the LA Times. It was hard, in a relatively brief review, to describe the book’s complex strucure without…
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Vermin report: at the Mountain Bar
Sunday night brought another night of Vermin — the Vermin on the Mount reading series at Chinatown’s Mountain Bar. Poet Dan Kaplan, political chronicler Josh Bearman, and novelist Janet Fitch…
Goodbye Jerry and Rocky
Jerry Yang is out as CEO of Yahoo. In his goodbye e-mail to all of Yahoo, he proves the concerns about the literacy of the dot-com generation are valid. “i”…
In the LA Times: poet Douglas Kearney
LA-based poet Douglas Kearney does some pretty cool work. And he just got a Whiting Award, which, at $50,000, is also pretty cool. OK, those are both understatements. I write…
Something I did write for the LA Times
A review of The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford in the 11/9 paper. Here’s how it starts. The collection “The Drowned Life” raises a banner to salute the power of…
Some shit isn’t appropriate for the LA Times
Mainstream media is catching on to the power of blogging in many ways, but one thing they haven’t embraced is prolific profanity. At the LA Times book blog Jacket Copy,…
White supremacists in white tuxedos?
I liked it better when those crazy Klansmen stumbled around in pointy-hatted sheets, so you could easily identify them. Although I suppose there aren’t that many shaved head, gun-toting racists…
Book review in the LA Times: Abortion & Life
My review of “Abortion & Life” by Jennifer Baumgardner, out on Akashic Books, is in today’s LA Times. It opens: THE COVER is striking: a very pregnant blond with her…
Hotly fancied
Kiran Desai was announced the winner of the Man Booker prize tonight for The Inheritance of Loss. At 35, Desai is the youngest woman yet to win the prize. Her…
Realize the iPod will never be perfect
There are some things I remember when traveling nowadays: Don’t bring water for the flight. When carrying lots of books, it’s OK to put some in your checked bag; it…
