We’re playing a little catch up this morning…

• World Hum interviews Jennifer Leo, who writes the WrittenRoad blog and has edited a new travel anthology, The Thong Also Rises.

• Frontiers features Kevin Roderick’s new book, Wilshire Boulevard: Grand Concourse of Los Angeles.

• Publisher’s Lunch checks in on David Kipen at the NEA: “..Kipen has hit the ground running in shaping the launch of the agency’s The Big Read program, which he discussed with MobyLives.com proprietor and Melville House publisher Dennis Johnson…As Kipen describes it, the idea is to create ‘a citywide reading kit in a box, and a little dough on the side, so that they don’t have to invent these things from scratch.’”

• “You seemed to the outside world like the couple that squeezed every last drop out of every last day.” — Dave Eggers, talking with Joan Didion about husband John Gregory Dunne

• Derek Powazek points us to the new 52 Projects: Random Acts of Everday Creativity.

• The 2006 LA Audubon Bookstore Catalog is now online!