NewsHour profiles Marin poet Kay Ryan, who talks about a “creamy, latexy kind of silence,” how growing up in a nervous house in California has shaped her search for words and why “things shouldn’t be so hard.” Browse and listen here.
Also:
• LA author Christoper Noxon in on NPR talking about grownups who can’t get enough of kid stuff, er, Rejuveniles.
• Kevin Roderick beefs up his LA Observed.
• Amazon tries to be a Hollywood player.
• Angel City Press Publisher Paddy Calistro shines on a Nantucket stage.
Meet the authors of the California Authors Directory. Visit the directory to discover writers like Andrew Sean Greer, a San Francisco novelist whose latest book, 
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