Kevin Roderick waxes on the nation’s biggest book market on KCRW and highlights some of SoCal’s new spring’s books — among them Latinos in Lotusland; Hollywood Crows; The Devils of Bakersfield; The Age Of Dreaming; and Great Escapes: Southern California.
There are something like fifteen million people living within the sound of my voice. So there’s really no competition for who buys the most books.
Places you might think of as bookish — the Bay Area, say, or Boston or Portland — just aren’t big enough.
And New York — well, even with all the publishers and agents squeezed into Manhattan, the boroughs aren’t really filled with readers.
So that leaves Southern California…
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