… from here and there:
• Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti receives one of France’s top cultural honors: Commandeur des Arts et Lettres.
• Michael Wolff expounds in Vanity Fair on Billionaires and Broadsheets.
• AP’s Lynn Elber does a Q&A with Tavis Smiley, the L.A. talk show host with two books on the New York Times bestseller list.
• The Atlantic revisits Steinbeck’s The Winter of Our Discontent.
• Former LA Times writing coach James Hayes collaborates on a lovely new book, The Art of Robert Reynolds: Quiet Journey.
• Chronicle book editor Oscar Villalon publishes The Way of the Thumb, a guide to the “semi-sweet” science of thumb wrestling.
• Last word: “Today, we’re just scared little mice stuck in a glue trap” — LAPD cop in Joseph Wambaugh’s Hollywood Station
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