• Pico Iyer shares his playlist with The New York Times.
• Book Passage owner Bill Petrocelli blasts Amazon’s tax holiday in California.
• Former LAT Times Editor John Carroll offers his take on “The Future of Journalism” in a speech at the University of Kentucky.
• Author Patt Morrison reels in more top interviews to her KPCC show. Last week: a sitdown with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. This week: former President Jimmy Carter stops by on his book tour.
• Novelist Susan Straight wins an Edgar Award for her short story “The Golden Gopher” in the Los Angeles Noir anthology. [from laobserved]
• California author, commentator, and “cybersalonista” Arianna Huffington takes a star turn in W.
Meet the authors of the California Authors Directory. Visit the directory to discover writers like Christina Meldrum, a Bay Area attorney whose book Madapple was just released this month. “In debut novelist Christina Meldrum's mesmerizing literary mystery, 