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Entries
05/08/2008: Living with music and other stray notes from around the web: • Pico...
05/04/2008: Malibu's Top Ten: The Malibu Times looks at the books locals are buying...
05/03/2008: Safe havens under siege: Los Angeles leaders faced an outcry from residents and city...
04/27/2008: Bookish LA: Kevin Roderick waxes on the nation's biggest book market on...
04/25/2008: See you at the Festival of Books This weekend I'll be at UCLA on Sunday soaking up...
04/21/2008: What I'm reading: Author Edward Humes reviews LA Times columnist Steve Lopez's new...
04/21/2008: Site notes: Next week we are launching a newly re-designed californiaauthors.com and...
04/15/2008: Good idea: RJ Smith at Los Angeles magazine interviews the six living...
04/04/2008: Hmmm: "HarperCollins Publishers is forming a new publishing group that will...
04/03/2008: On being a reclusive weirdo: "So I woke up this a.m. thinking about how unsuited...
04/03/2008: Saucy schemes and new stories: Isabel Allende's memoir is just out: The Sums of Our...
03/31/2008: A good deed and spring cleaning, too: The California Highway Patrol begins its annual Cesar E. Chavez...
03/31/2008: Last word: "Reading books - it's a crummy business model, but it's...
03/25/2008: The travel writer and the monk: Today is publication day for The Open Road: The Global...
03/24/2008: Bravo. Publishers Weekly has named Vroman's in Pasadena , Southern California's...
03/20/2008: The odds couple: Mark F. at BoingBoing advises, "Harper Collins has posted the...
03/19/2008: Treasures from the East: This week UC Berkeley opened the $46 million C.V. Starr...
03/16/2008: Performance art: Roshawnda Bettencourt , a student at Placer County's Oakmont High...
03/14/2008: Overheard: "I'm sitting in an airport where someone just had Elliot...
03/12/2008: Out there: Three choice morsels this week. Roam ... the City of...
03/12/2008: Latest road trip: Five California cities — Long Beach, Santa Barbara, Sacramento, Whittier...
03/10/2008: Quote of the day: "If a guy can write a book with his left...
03/10/2008: On my nightstand: "At the moment I’m re-reading ‘ No Matter How Loud...
03/09/2008: Reality check: Los Angeles Times columnist Sandy Banks offers her read of...
03/07/2008: `In the very near future, we will all be online journalists': In an especially dreary week of newspaper layoffs, buyouts and...
03/07/2008: Endings: The Elegant Variation notes that author Janet Fitch is collecting...
03/06/2008: Duh. Craig Whitney, the NYT's standards editor , sends an email...
02/28/2008: She never leaves home without one: Author and columnist Patt Morrison shares her trademark chapeau collection...
02/27/2008: Bukowski's home gets landmark status: From Reuters: "The rundown Los Angeles bungalow where poet and...
02/27/2008: My bookshop: Novelist T.C. Boyle pens a lovely ode to Dutton's for...
02/27/2008: Books by the bay: Frances Dinkelspiel, host of the Ghost Word blog, checks out...
02/26/2008: Headline of the day: From LAObserved: "Zell delivers 'psychic bloodbath' in DC bureau. ...
02/25/2008: Slaughterhouse blues: In today's LAT, Christopher D. Cook , the author of...
02/25/2008: LA landmark bookstore calls it quits: LAObserved reports the very sad news this morning that Dutton's...
02/23/2008: Monkey Girl Lotto update: We had a great response from across the country to...
02/22/2008: Glorying in the road trip: The NYT's Paper Cuts blog has an interesting Q&A today...
02/21/2008: Kate is face number one in anti-government-spying video: People for the American Way included Kate and Val Cohen's...
02/18/2008: Book Lotto: Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's...
02/18/2008: First Amendment front lines: The latest American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression newsletter details...
02/15/2008: Today's most e-mailed story at NYTimes.com: " Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge ?...
02/13/2008: Audio extras: BoingBoing's Mark Frauenfelder shares his favorite podcasts, including fiction in...
02/13/2008: Today's quote: "Writing tells you everything you need to know about yourself...
02/10/2008: `Optimism abounds': From this morning's LAT : "The Writers Guild of America...
02/09/2008: Deal or no deal? Writers vote tonight on a tentative pact to end the...
02/08/2008: Book notes and a few random links for writers, foodies, and readers with sore throats: Dan Weintraub chronicles the governor's Party of One ... Michael...
02/05/2008: SoCal thriller: Today is pub day for T. Jefferson Parker's new novel...
01/31/2008: Going the extra (seven thousand) miles: Long Beach Librarian Susan Taylor had a hard time finding...
01/22/2008: Some (really) good bookstore news for a change: The Book Standard reports that 115 new independent bookstores opened...
01/15/2008: Guilty pleasures: Novelist and literary fiction aficionado Mark Sarvas has a fun...
01/10/2008: Lit Central? The National Book Critics Circle and other book types converge...
01/06/2008: Donna's Great Escapes for 2008: My story in today's LA Times recounts how writing a...
01/01/2008: Welcome 2008! Happy New Year to all. Here’s a...
01/01/2008: A dose of Daily Buddhist Wisdom to start 2008: "Because we all share this planet earth...
12/28/2007: Today's quote: "Writers hear voices. Which is why I never think of...
12/22/2007: A Christmas eve wake: Richard at Esotouric bemoans the passing of LA's Craby Joe's...
12/20/2007: Inspiring: Readers at Low Impact Living share their green resolutions for...
12/19/2007: Couch potato pick: We recently stumbled upon Outsourced , a charming indie film...
12/19/2007: Exploring California's Wine Country: In today's San Diego Union-Tribune, Michele Parente samples four wine-related...
12/12/2007: Woot! Yes, woot. Or wOOt. That's what voters in Merriam-Webster's Word...
12/03/2007: Yup, the book's still got legs! We just learned that the Benicia Public Library has selected...
11/28/2007: Score one for reader privacy: The AP reports : Federal prosecutors have withdrawn a subpoena...
11/27/2007: Casa California: Author D,J, Waldie teamed with actress Diane Keaton to create...
11/26/2007: Yippee: The Fray storytelling magazine is back ...
11/21/2007: Electronic books: This week Amazon rolled out its new Kindle , a...
11/10/2007: Front lines: LAist chronicles the five-day-old Writers Strike in photo galleries here...
11/09/2007: California gold: Novelist Susan Straight and nonfiction author Mike Davis have both...
11/04/2007: Bookmark it: Just noticed that Skylights Books has a new blog .....
11/04/2007: Mirror worlds: The Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle both delve...
10/31/2007: Book biz: Melony Vance, of Latitude 33 Bookshop in Laguna Beach, recaps...
10/26/2007: This weekend: Red Hen Press celebrates its thirteenth birthday on Sunday. Veronique...
10/25/2007: Who knew? Ghost Word has an interesting post on the Jewish Book...
10/25/2007: Peace tags: The latest Voices in Wartime Newsletter shares a collection of...
10/22/2007: SCBA Awards: The latest from LA Observed : " Los Angeles Noir...
10/18/2007: Now that's a great author event: Anita Renfroe boils down everything a mother says during an...
10/17/2007: Bucking the megastore trend: A while back, the San Francisco Chronicle ran a terrific...
10/11/2007: This week: Litcrawl continues in San Francisco "Our eight days of programming...
10/06/2007: Pink Power: California author Gayle Brandeis in on the national staff of...
10/05/2007: Just read the sad news in this morning's LA Times: Eso Won Books may close...
10/03/2007: Update: Ghost Word reports on last weekend's inaugural Carmel Authors and...
09/30/2007: SoCal So Cool: Donna's on deadline on her new Southern California travel book...
09/26/2007: A few stray notes from this morning: • Edward Humes , author of Over Here: How the...
09/25/2007: Book fest weekend in California: Interesting story in the Carmel Pine Cone about Jim and...
09/24/2007: Happy ?:.;! to you: Somehow we missed it, but style maven Maj Harmon is...
09/23/2007: Tough month for academic freedom: "The best that can be said about the University of...
09/22/2007: Bookstore nazis: From BoingBoing : "The Harvard Coop bookstore had the police...
09/20/2007: Department of good works: San Francisco novelist Dave Eggers , founder of the 826...
09/19/2007: Writers workshop...with a view. Elaine and Bill Petrocelli, owners of the Book Passage ...
09/19/2007: Saving Bukowski's Bungalow, part II: The Esotouric newsletter brings an update on efforts to save...
09/19/2007: More on Literacy Month: Donna's update: I spent Monday evening at the Downey Public...
09/17/2007: Tonight: The Downey Public Library celebrates National Literacy Month by reading...
09/15/2007: Saving Bukowski's Bungalow: The little bungalow where Charles Bukowski lived at 5124 De...
09/15/2007: We don't need no stinkin' journalists... in the journalism department: From the Daily Forty-Niner student newspaper at Cal State Long...
09/09/2007: Aloud resumes: Downtown News features the Los Angeles Central Library's popular Aloud...
09/06/2007: E-book advances? In today's NYT, Brad Stone explores two new ventures —...
08/25/2007: Summer hours: Yes, postings here at CaliforniaAuthors have been kinda lite lately...
08/24/2007: Cruising the `suitcase city': NPR's Mandalit del Barco rides along with crime-reporter-turned-bestselling-author Michael Connelly...
08/23/2007: Eco-libris: Read a book. Then plant a tree. GhostWord shares a...
08/16/2007: Amazon and animal cruelty: From The Elegant Variation: "Most of you are no doubt...
08/12/2007: Inspiration from up north: Frances at Ghost Word checks in from the Squaw Valley...
08/09/2007: New gig: LAObserved reports that former La Times Book Editor Steve Wasserman...
08/01/2007: Boyle honored: The board of the Santa Barbara Book and Author Festival...
07/30/2007: The LAT's Daily Dish blog shares a recipe for Luna Lovegood's Chocolate Pudding ...
07/25/2007: Best Place to Meet a Famous Author: Aloud at Central Library . ...so sez LA's Downtown News...
07/19/2007: Slice of Life: The New York Times just launched a first-person series about...
07/18/2007: Showdown at Tejon: Edward Humes shifts gears from the evolution wars to the...
07/17/2007: Previously featured as our new release of the week: Worldchanging: A User's...
07/12/2007: A new medium for storytelling: Spraypaint stencil tales on the streets of San Francisco ....
07/09/2007: The first car bomb. In his Paper Cuts blog, Dwight Garner points to Daniel...
07/09/2007: No magic spell: In a story on the popularity of Harry Potter, The...
07/08/2007: San Diego shrinks book reviews, too: From P&W: "Another newspaper has decided to cut back its...
07/06/2007: Dutton's lives on! The LAT reports that billionaire Charles T. Munger has scrapped...
07/04/2007: Sold: Journalist Novella Carpenter has closed a deal with Ann Godoff...
07/03/2007: Hot and bothered: More than a thousand NYT readers write in as Scooter...
06/22/2007: From this Sunday's NYT Book Review: David Leavitt reviews (and mostly likes) Michael Tolliver Lives ...
06/21/2007: This weekend: Check out the "Gene Autry and the Twentieth Century West...
06/20/2007: Scary movies & other stray notes: • LaObserved reports today that Heritage Book Shop, LA's rare...
06/19/2007: Summer collections: The Chron compiles an interesting roundup of new anthologies from...
06/13/2007: Hard Times on Valencia Street: San Francisco Chronicle Book Editor Oscar Villalon writes that the...
06/12/2007: More LB: Over at LaBloga, Daniel Olivas has a Q&A with Long...
06/10/2007: Grape Expectations: The Long Beach Public Library Foundation holds its annual fundraising...
06/08/2007: Overheard (fairly) recently at the celebrity spelling bee in San Francisco: • "I believe it's a very poor writer who can't...
06/06/2007: Dark days at California newspapers: Less than a week after the LA Times lost 57...
06/05/2007: Courting reader reviews: From today's Publisher's Lunch : LibraryThing.com is working with Random...
06/03/2007: Nobody says it better: Novelist Carolyn See fires off a note to the LA...
06/02/2007: Her new inspiration: The LAT's Scott Timberg profiles Marianne Wiggins as she releases...
06/01/2007: This weekend in LA: Kerry Slattery at Skylight Books sends word about Sunday's Los...
05/31/2007: Today's quote: "We're well-qualified nuts." — LA author Jerry Pournelle , on...
05/30/2007: We hear from friends at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that Tom Robbins is the paper's...
05/29/2007: What I'm reading: "I've just read Ray Bradbury's ">Farewell Summer , the 50+-years-later...
05/28/2007: Potty talk: TEV and readers swap bathroom books ...
05/28/2007: Blogtalkradio: BoingBoing co-founder and LA author Mark Frauenfelder talks today about...
05/25/2007: (Sad) Sign of the Times: Kevin Roderick reports that LAT columnist and author Al Martinez...
05/24/2007: Contemporary crime fiction: Daniel Olivas reviews the Los Angeles Noir anthology, edited by...
05/23/2007: Addressing the junk mail problem: Stopjunkmail.org is a great resource. Built for people in the...
05/23/2007: On the wild side: It's spring in Yosemite and Gary Kamiya hears John Muir...
05/23/2007: Cruising LA's mean streets: Check out the Christian Science Monitor's travel feature on a...
05/21/2007: Remembering Terry Ryan: Heidi Benson of the Chronicle pens an appreciation for the...
05/21/2007: Today's quote: "Since Gutenberg first printed the Bible, critics have always said...
05/17/2007: Must-read: The new LA Weekly has a terrific cover package on...
05/15/2007: Book reviewer v. litblogger smackdown from the LAT ...
05/12/2007: A treasured possession: At this week's James Beard Foundation awards -- the SF...
05/10/2007: Kate's new favorite book website is noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com , cooked up by Miranda July...
05/04/2007: Lauded: McSweeney's won the 2007 National Magazine Award for excellence in...
05/04/2007: Out there: Lotsa California Authors in the headlights this week. Among them...
05/03/2007: No (Lesbian) Sex In The Stacks, Please: An Arkansas dad sues after his teen sons stumble upon...
05/02/2007: Where she is from: Joan Didion returns to LA on Monday, May 7. She'll...
04/26/2007: My California Festival of Books. Join My California contributors at the Los Angeles Times Festival...
04/25/2007: The National Book Critics Circle has launched a Campaign to Save Book Reviewing. From their...
04/23/2007: The hot list. Granta 's list of twenty-one Best Young American Novelists includes...
04/23/2007: Previously featured as our new release of the week: Lost City Radio...
04/18/2007: Destinations: TEV reports that the delightful Village Books has a new...
04/17/2007: Tale of two booksellers: Jeffrey Bezos, who launched Amazon.com from his garage in 1994...
04/16/2007: Pulitzer day in California: Kenneth R. Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling and Rick Loomis of...
04/14/2007: The LA Times debuts its revamped Book Review on Sunday and book editor David...
04/13/2007: Coupla interesting author items this afternoon over at LAObserved: Ray Bradbury incites...
04/11/2007: Not just the usual suspects: "L.A. people are very sophisticated, and, frankly, I don't think...
04/02/2007: Mark your Calendar. On the April books: April 4: Eat your words at...
03/29/2007: All about me: It's Memoir Week over at Slate , which delves into...
03/26/2007: Twenty-two new California books were added today to our one-of-a-kind list of...
03/26/2007: It's official: The LA Times is merging the Book Review with the...
03/22/2007: Tool libraries: Wanna borrow a cabinet scraper or rotary hammer drill? Perhaps...
03/22/2007: Today's quote: "It’s meant to be entertaining ... The last thing we’re...
03/21/2007: Cathy's World: Los Angeles journalist Cathy Seipp died too soon today from...
03/20/2007: SOS: Mark Sarvas details neighborhood efforts to save Duttons Books and...
03/19/2007: Thinking about giving away money? First peruse the Charity Navigator , which provides a financial...
03/15/2007: Rallying around Jerry Roberts: More than 150 friends turned out this week to roast...
03/14/2007: Talking points: "When you're in your life, I think you don't have...
03/13/2007: Fresh and spicy: Kevin at LAObserved points us to TableConversation.com , the delectable...
03/13/2007: What I'm Reading: "For about a year, I've been catching up on the...
03/08/2007: California's literary legislators are profiled here by Capitol Weekly . Their works include...
03/08/2007: Two for the broadband: Make magazine's Mark Frauenfelder trades marshmellow shooter fire with Stephen...
03/07/2007: Book deals: From the latest Publisher's Lunch dispatch: • Screenwriter and lit...
03/06/2007: Good point: "I don't understand why newspapers, when they want to cut...
03/04/2007: Four for the calendar in March. Local interest on Thursday, March 8: Three authors discuss their...
02/28/2007: Wince! We know it's how they feel, still it was hard...
02/26/2007: Saying no to a Newbery award winner. Patt Morrison talks with Susan Patron -- the LA librarian...
02/21/2007: In other breaking Steinbeck news: From today's LA Times: "ST. PAUL, MINN. — "The Grapes...
02/20/2007: Steinbeck Sale Part II: A rare edition of The Grapes of Wrath , John...
02/18/2007: Steinbeck sale: Rare copies of John Steinbeck's first novel and other works...
02/15/2007: The good, the bad and the beautiful: Another day in California... • Chron reporters and authors Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada...
02/13/2007: The give away. Four years after Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom...
02/13/2007: What the hay, WSJ? It's not that the Wall Street Journal hired long-time intelligent...
02/13/2007: 411: Ghost Word points us to Kemble Scott's handy San Francisco...
02/13/2007: San Francisco attack: Police say they have located a suspect in the bizarre...
02/12/2007: What I'm Reading: "Far too many courses and books on Creative Writing teach...
02/11/2007: Sunday shorts. • The LAT's Maria Russo on Jane Smiley's new novel...
02/07/2007: All (Green) Things Considered: Constance Casey browses the just-released winter crop of gardening catalogs...
02/07/2007: Risky business: The LAT's David Streitfeld has a front page story today...
02/07/2007: Kitchen Sink circling the drain? The Oakland magazine may have published its last issue unless...
02/06/2007: Update: Check out the scene at last weekend's Dorkbake Oven Challenge...
02/06/2007: Early lit life of LA: Poet Julia Stein offers a lengthy blog ode to Bohemian...
02/05/2007: Whittier Reads My California! The enthusiastic team at the Whittier Public Library has assembled...
02/04/2007: Big trouble for small publishers: The bankruptcy of Publishers Group West in Berkeley has rocked...
02/01/2007: Fresh for February: Don't miss our one-of-a-kind list of new California books ...
02/01/2007: Previously featured as our new release of the week: First Exposures ...
01/30/2007: Up all night: Lotsa buzz around the web about Edward Humes' Monkey Girl...
01/30/2007: Digitize Me? UC Irvine holds a public conference Thursday and Friday that...
01/29/2007: Which Science Fiction Writer Are You? Quiz yourself here . Cory Doctorow , author of the...
01/26/2007: A thriller as told in a Bombay barroom: Vikram Chandra divides his time between India and Berkeley, where...
01/25/2007: `Literary Paprika': The Jewish Journal profiles Mark Sarvas , the LA screenwriter-turned-litblogger...
01/25/2007: Think Valentines Day: OK, we're a little late on this one ... but...
01/25/2007: Gotta love the Esquire Napkin Project. The magazine's website explains: "It's an old story, we figured...
01/24/2007: Surfing ... California authors around the web: • Northern California writers ( seven! ) dominate the finalists...
01/23/2007: Surprise! Children's author Susan Patron, a collections manager at the Los...
01/23/2007: Laguna Beach mystery writer Barbara Seranella died yesterday in Cleveland while awaiting a liver...
01/22/2007: California company buys AuthorHouse: From Publisher's Lunch: "Palo Alto-based private equity firm Bertram Capital...
01/22/2007: Amy Tan's San Francisco: The author talks with The Washington Post about her town...
01/21/2007: Talk talk: "I read the L.A. Times every morning and I just...
01/18/2007: Fallout: HarperCollins axes Regan Books and the imprint's LA outpost. Details...
01/18/2007: Rethinking La La Land: Adam Kirsch enlightens fellow New Yorkers with "the truth about...
01/17/2007: More bad news for Dutton's: The LA Times runs a page one story today about...
01/16/2007: Art books great and small: German publisher Benedikt Taschen moves beyond Beverly Hills to open...
01/16/2007: Chop shop: The Washington Post drops in on the Orange County Register...
01/15/2007: A January tradition. Deborah Schoch explores Long Beach’s popular Literary Women festival, which...
01/12/2007: Depressing indy watch continues: In the Bay Area, the San Francisco Chronicle sez that...
01/12/2007: Writers workshop: From Holt Uncensored: ">Ten Mistakes Writers Don't See (But Can...
01/10/2007: Double blow: LaObserved reports that yet another independent Southern California bookseller, Tia...
01/09/2007: New (and newish) tidbits ... from here and there: • Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti receives...
01/09/2007: Freedom writers: Some folks in Long Beach are peeved at their town's...
01/08/2007: The San Francisco Chronicle profiles California poet and Iraq war veteran Brian Turner, author of...
01/08/2007: The boss of me. Memoirist Debra Ginsberg gets fiction-y in her new book Blind...
01/05/2007: California author Michael Santos has published three books ... from behind bars. He's an...
01/04/2007: Fixity of purpose. On California Poet Laureate Al Young's list of New Year's...
01/03/2007: "Tillie Olsen, an activist, feminist and an influential and widely taught fiction...
12/27/2006: New Year, new reads. Fill your 2007 dance card from our one-of-a-kind list of...
12/20/2006: Holiday blues: Dutton's is shutting down its new Beverly Hills bookstore on...
12/18/2006: `a bookstore gives people hope': Downtown Los Angeles has a shiny new indie, Metropolis Books...
12/18/2006: Sharp instincts, sharper elbows: The NYT explains Judith Regan's sudden ouster. Media Bistro recaps...
12/13/2006: Remembering Anna Politkovskaya: Aimee Liu and Deborah Jones presented a tribute to the...
12/13/2006: Quote of the day: "I've got two boys with two Pulitzers. Not many mothers...
12/11/2006: The Underground Gardener: Elizabeth Stromme , author of the noir novel Joe's Word...
12/06/2006: Ideas on stage: Red Hen Press has teamed up with the Geffen Playhouse...
12/03/2006: Sunday shorts: In the LAT Book Review , Steve Almond tries to...
12/01/2006: Chasing Pynchon's Rainbows: "Screw the owls. Boy wizard Harry Potter may have The...
11/27/2006: Picking a winner: Novelist and USC Prof Marianne Wiggins on the recent National...
11/21/2006: Holiday goodies: The San Francisco Chronicle serves up its list of gift...
11/20/2006: Cancelled: Rupert Murdoch kills O.J. Simpson's book and Fox TV interview...
11/17/2006: 365 Days/365 Plays: Suzan-Lori Parks came up with a big idea composed of...
11/17/2006: Today's quote: "I never lost my desire for his conviction. And if...
11/16/2006: National Book Awards: Seattle writer Timothy Egan wins the nonfiction prize for The...
11/15/2006: Two Cents • Would you buy O.J.'s book? "Only if I had...
11/15/2006: Reverse Dictionary: This handy pointer comes from Cool Tools : "We've all...
11/14/2006: Blazing a literary trail on the web: "Noted editor Tom Jenks solicited submissions from a few of...
11/13/2006: Tonight: Spend the evening with Michael Chabon at UC Davis ...
11/09/2006: Next gen poet: The Chron catches up with Ben Lerner, the 27-year-old poet...
11/08/2006: Latest on The Big Read: The National Endowment for the Arts has just handed out...
11/08/2006: Her life with books: Josh Getlin writes in the LAT today about Wendy Werris...
11/06/2006: Looking for your next read? Dont miss our one-of-a-kind list of new California Books ...
11/05/2006: $400 clip job: LAT columnist and mystery novelist Steve Lopez gets a pre-election...
11/04/2006: Your favorite author wants you to vote: "Get a phone call on election day from your favorite...
11/04/2006: Baghdad Blues: Gail and Thom Steinbeck send along " Baghdad Blues ,...
11/03/2006: Fellowship of the book: Arts Journal points to this week's NYT feature on Viggo...
11/02/2006: Staying alive: From today's NYT : With book sales sagging — down...
11/01/2006: Writer's workshop: Poets & Writers magazine posts its MFA Toolkit ... a...
11/01/2006: News and a few stray notes: • Poet Chryss Yost is tonight's keynote speaker as Santa...
10/31/2006: One City, One Book: Long Beach picks Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation as its...
10/30/2006: Nine Words: Edward Humes ( Over Here: How the G.I. Bill Transformed...
10/29/2006: Fresh voices: Three Bay Area writers — Yiyun Li ( A Thousand...
10/27/2006: `I'm the girl for the gig': Novelist Danyel Smith it the new editor of Vibe ...
10/27/2006: Embroider your skateboard! Light up your clothing! Felt an iPod cocoon! Those are some of the projects featured in O'Reilly's new...
10/25/2006: Exploring California: Browsing a bookstore we recently spotted Lonely Planet's comprehensive new...
10/23/2006: SCBA Awards: T. Jefferson Parker, Jennifer Kaufman, Karen Mack, Tony Cohan and...
10/21/2006: A writer's life: Sunset Magazine talks with Isabel Allende about food, wine, and...
10/20/2006: Tonight: Aimee Liu reads "Transients in Paradise," her Beverly Hills essay...
10/13/2006: Last words: Daniel Handler's final Lemony Snicket book is out today. No...
10/12/2006: More awards: PEN Center USA announces its annual awards for books, journalism...
10/12/2006: The finalists for the National Book Awards were announced Wednesday ... in San Francisco. A big day...
10/11/2006: Who you gonna call? A desperate Steve Lopez turns to novelist (and neighborhood warrior...
10/09/2006: The writer and the recipe: "Mary's cake becomes for me, a version of Proust's madeleine...
10/09/2006: Previously featured: as our new release of the week: The Anza Trail...
10/09/2006: Chicanos meet Chilangos: This week's Mexico City Book Fair includes a special tribute...
10/08/2006: Today's quote: "You were there, in it, like spiders climbing up the...
10/05/2006: Newsroom saga: The Tribune forced its LA Times publisher to resign today...
10/05/2006: So a Reporter Walks Into a Bookstore: Noting the NYT's "great luck" in buying embargoed books from...
10/05/2006: This weekend: Litquake is back and it's impressive. San Francisco's literary fest...
10/04/2006: Friday in California Arts Day ... Read a poem. Stroll a museum. Try a dance...
10/01/2006: Reading California: Today's Sacramento Bee previews the "One Book Sacramento" program, which...
09/30/2006: My California update: Donna checks in from Santa Barbara: The Santa Barbara Library...
09/27/2006: This weekend: Just in case you need an excuse for a getaway...
09/25/2006: High School Confidential: In today's "School Me" column , Bob Sipchen rips Jeremy...
09/25/2006: Great books, great bookstore: This year's finalists for the National Book Awards will be...
09/24/2006: Overcoming her fear factor: Denise Hamilton checks out James Ellroy at Vroman's: "Ellroy’s quite...
09/22/2006: Silence means prison: Thursday was a bad day in court for two San...
09/19/2006: Great minds think aloud: The Los Angeles Downtown News profiles author Louise Steinman and...
09/18/2006: Fresh for Fall: Don't miss today's California Authors updates. Read an excerpt from...
09/18/2006: Previously featured as our new release of the week: Grace Period ...
09/18/2006: Tough sell: Ghost Word details a weekend conference in Berkeley on how...
09/18/2006: 'Don't go': Editor & Publisher talks with NYT foreign correspondent (and former...
09/17/2006: On Sunday: Nina Revoyr reviews Janet Fitch's new novel, Paint It Black...
09/13/2006: Update: The NEA has just released Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and...
09/13/2006: Book fairs: This weekend offers two SoCal events for readers: • The...
09/13/2006: "Once upon a time" used to be a gateway for children to a land...
09/11/2006: More on Cody's: The San Francisco Chronicle writes about Hiroshi Kagawa, owner of...
09/07/2006: Berkeley saga: Just two months after closing his flagship bookstore on Telegraph...
09/06/2006: Don't miss Our one-of-a-kind list of California new releases updated today with...
09/05/2006: Out there: Indy booksellers are going on TV to share books in...
09/03/2006: Sunday snippets: Both the LAT and Chron feature Sunday reviews of Michael...
09/02/2006: Frances Dinkelspiel remembers California historian Jim Holliday , who died this week in...
09/01/2006: Soul food: From Aboriginal culture to hyper-reality, from war to the Beats...
08/31/2006: His shadow world: Remember Robert Young Pelton? The last time we wrote about...
08/30/2006: California Greening: From the AP : "California will become the first state...
08/30/2006: More awards: USC announces the finalists for the 7th annual Online Journalism...
08/29/2006: The Southern California Booksellers Association announces its 2006 Book Award nominees, among them T. Jefferson...
08/24/2006: Science & Serendipity: LABrainTerain spreads the word about Categorically Not! , an occasional...
08/23/2006: Short shorts: LA author Ray Bradbury turns 86 ... Kem Nunn ...
08/22/2006: Previously featured as our new release of the week: Samba Dreamers ...
08/19/2006: Words to take to the bank: "Everything is copy." That's Nora Ephron explaining her philosophy in...
08/19/2006: The next generation: When her dad decided to run for the Santa Cruz...
08/19/2006: The San Francisco Chronicle looks at the state of Mother Jones : "As the 30th...
08/18/2006: The heart of Litte Saigon: The morning papers bring the sad news about the death...
08/17/2006: He's a peee-pull person: Both the San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times ran...
08/16/2006: Dateline Paradise Cove: My California contributor Veronique de Turenne has a chatty new...
08/15/2006: Arts-centric in LA: MediaBistro's Unbeige offers a timely heads up on Supersonic 2006...
08/15/2006: Future fiction alert: This year's World Science Fiction Convention opens next week (Aug...
08/14/2006: The West 100: The LA Times magazine includes author and USC History Professor...
08/11/2006: Junk it: Soldier-turned-author Colby Buzzell blogs at Huffington Post about his latest...
08/11/2006: Potty talk: Crime novelist (and mother of two boys) Denise Hamilton explains...
08/10/2006: Armenian lit: The LAT's James Ricci roams Abril Books in Glendale: Abril...
08/10/2006: What I'm reading: "The Dissident is ... set in Los Angeles and Beijing...
08/09/2006: Cliff notes: So much for a sleepy August. Lotsa book buzz, including...
08/07/2006: Steinbeck Country: Author Edward Humes blogs from the Steinbeck Festival : Listening...
08/07/2006: Poetry Counts: The National Steinbeck Center is on a mission to collect...
08/03/2006: On the road: Today is opening day of the annual Steinbeck Festival at...
08/02/2006: Google Library Project: From today's LAT: "In a move with major significance for...
08/01/2006: Talkers: Bits and pieces from around the web: • LAist interviews...
07/30/2006: Writer's retreat?: Wired features a nifty, if somewhat pricey, Cedar-Home-Office-in-a-Box kit...
07/27/2006: In the headlights: NewsHour profiles Marin poet Kay Ryan , who talks about...
07/26/2006: Previously featured as our new release of the week: The Fallen. by...
07/25/2006: Miss Grammar: The San Francisco Chronicle features Serena Bardell, a dedicated member...
07/19/2006: Sounds bites of summer ... from various points: • Santa Barbara: "The press in...
07/17/2006: Previously featured as our new release of the week: The Visionary State...
07/17/2006: New York mines for Hollywood gold: Josh Getlin writes in the LAT today about HarperCollins and...
07/14/2006: Fraywatch: Author and veteran Washington Post writer Lou Cannon pens a...
07/13/2006: A good week for Wired Editor Chris Anderson: "First, his long-awaited book The Long Tail hits the Amazon...
07/13/2006: The next chapter: Since her Midnight Special bookstore closed in Santa Monica, Margie...
07/12/2006: Good news travels in threes: We're delighted to report that three more California cities —...
07/11/2006: Arts & politics: California gets $105 million in arts education support. So why...
07/11/2006: The power of literature: Ghost Word captures the scene at last night's Progressive Reading...
07/10/2006: I want my CaliforniaAuthors: You may have noticed that our once-in-a-while newsletter here at...
07/10/2006: Out there: Lotsa interesting buzz on California writers around the web... •...
07/07/2006: `Chaos, baby. I thrive on chaos.' LA Weekly writer Steven Kotler (somehow) survives a road trip...
07/06/2006: Walkout: LAObserved details the exodus from the Santa Barbara News-Press ...
07/06/2006: Meet Matisse, Magritte & Co.: The Southern California team of Mike Bundlie and Denise Bradley...
07/05/2006: Listening to lilac: In our latest excerpt here at CaliforniaAuthors, valley farmer-turned-author Mike...
07/04/2006: `What about the cushion?!': A poet chronicles life in a poker family ...
07/03/2006: Independence Day means never having to say you're censored: The editors of the LAT and NYT released a joint...
06/30/2006: Surfing's mystery man: Matt Warshaw previews his upcoming book on photographer Ron Stoner...
06/30/2006: Digital Library Cards: Cool Tools offers a handy guide to using the library...
06/30/2006: Top 30: World Hum, celebrating its fifth birthday, compiles its list of...
06/29/2006: MyLibrarySpace.com Boing Boing points us to LibraryThing.com , "a site that...
06/28/2006: Bits and pieces: Just back from a little R&R and blackjack in the...
06/26/2006: Previously featured as our new release of the week: The Omnivore's Dilemma...
06/23/2006: Overshadowed: Author Jervey Tervalon on graduation day at UCLA: I have...
06/22/2006: Summer fix: Bad Twin , the "Lost" tie-in book penned by thriller...
06/21/2006: Remembering a dear friend: "She just had a very, very good pair of glasses...
06/20/2006: Online borrowing: County libraries in Southern California now offer patrons online audio...
06/17/2006: The NYT on Cody's closing: "Depending on whom you ask, the reason Cody's Books is...
06/17/2006: Good listening on public radio: Patt Morrison interviews Carey McWilliams biographer Peter Richardson . McWilliams...
06/15/2006: Today's quote: "It's going to be scandalous. This would tickle my husband...
06/13/2006: It's easy to find the latest additions to our one-of-a-kind list of...
06/13/2006: Previously featured as our new release of the week: There Will Never...
06/13/2006: Steinbeck heirs triumph: From the LAT : A New York federal judge has...
06/12/2006: The Thinking Fan: Dave Eggers expounds at Slate on the state of suburban...
06/12/2006: Found: Cory Doctorow points to Wired's bookcase full of titles from...
06/09/2006: Good point: San Francisco lawyer and Deep Throat co-author John O'Connor carps...
06/07/2006: Berkeley blues: Ghost Word notes that this is the final week of...
06/07/2006: Dreams we carry around: "To read a great book is to look deep into...
06/05/2006: All booked up: A taste of the summertime lists ... the LAT Book...
06/05/2006: Previously featured as our new release of the week: California: America's High-Stakes...
06/01/2006: Better know your Prop 81. Larry Mantle makes it easy when he moderates an AirTalk®...
05/31/2006: On the road: My California contributors Kathi Kamen Goldmark, Edward Humes and Mary...
05/31/2006: Good question: Frances at Ghost Word reads Reyna Grande's essay ( featured...
05/29/2006: Judith Moore, the author of Fat Girl: A True Story ; The Left Coast...
05/28/2006: Got poems? "Contrary to public opinion, poetry is not anything confined to...
05/28/2006: Histoire d'amour: The NYT's Alan Riding savors Santa Barbara chef Julia Child's...
05/24/2006: Botox nation: Author Pico Iyer , who divides his time between California...
05/23/2006: California stories: Last night Donna had a great time with the Beach...
05/19/2006: Congrats: LAObserved celebrates its third birthday with a Neon Bus Cruise...
05/18/2006: Shoring up California's libraries: From today's San Francisco Chronicle : Across California, there are...
05/17/2006: Help Wanted: Organizers of the Santa Barbara Book and Author Festival say...
05/15/2006: Previously featured as our new release of the week: The Year of...
05/15/2006: Why bookstores are falling faster than American Idol contestants: Sociologist Laura Miller gets inside the world of independent bookstores...
05/10/2006: Oh no! Cody's is closing its flagship Berkeley bookstore on Telegraph Avenue...
05/09/2006: Beyond Klickitat Street: Ramona Quimby is finally heading to the big screen. Ramona...
05/09/2006: The Big Read: In an effort to get Americans reading, the National Endowment...
05/08/2006: You've got updates: New at CaliforniaAuthors today: Reyna Grande's reflections on her immigrant...
05/08/2006: Previously featured: as our new release of the week: The Little Saigon...
05/08/2006: Dangerous game: The Bush team continues its war on leaks -- and...
05/08/2006: My hometown: Here's a snippet from Dana Gioia's enjoyable essay on the...
05/05/2006: Update: The Save the Bookstore Coalition triumphs ...
05/05/2006: A Town in Love with Big Talkers: This week the LAT's Larry Gordon wrote about Southern California's...
05/05/2006: On the block: The San Francisco Chronicle reports this morning that A Clean...
05/04/2006: The last word: Poynter's Don Fry offers a tutorial today on writing your...
05/02/2006: Authors rally: Dave Eggers and other McSweeney's writers have joined forces with...
04/30/2006: A history of paradise: The LA Times compiles a commemorative Home Section , which...
04/30/2006: Browsing the Festival of Books: Read Carla Hall's story in the LAT and the report...
04/29/2006: Book Awards: The Los Angeles Times handed out its book prizes Friday...
04/28/2006: See you at UCLA: This is it, Southern California's big book weekend. We wouldn't...
04/28/2006: California Kid's Library Tourism: Thirteen-year-old Cory Peterson is on a mission: With a little...
04/24/2006: California's secret agent: "It's impossible to exaggerate how high the stakes were in...
04/21/2006: Greater Los Angeles: LAObserved notes that the upcoming fifth issue of Black Clock...
04/21/2006: Postscript: The new California Arts Council newsletter offers an enthusiastic recap...
04/19/2006: So long, Gotham: Publisher Judith Regan will officially move her enterprises to LA...
04/17/2006: Moving: Cory Doctorow , the sci-fi writer and co-editor of BoingBoing...
04/17/2006: From blog to book: Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, creator of the Daily Kos , is...
04/17/2006: Help wanted: Don't throw away your crumple to-do lists. San Francisco writer...
04/15/2006: Check out the nifty My California logo-emblazoned goods now available at the...
04/10/2006: Previously featured: as our new release of the week: ">Blithe Tomato ...
04/03/2006: Where books were the bond: Journalist Marci Vogel writes about her first job: at Dutton's...
04/02/2006: Sunday shorts: LAT writer Sonia Nazario , author of Enrique's Journey ...
03/29/2006: Skid row story: Columnist Steve Lopez has just sold a new book, Imagining...
03/29/2006: Q & A du jour: The LAist chats with novelist Susan Straight ...
03/27/2006: Previously featured: as our new release of the week: ">San Francisco Noir...
03/24/2006: Out there: Former LA Times Editor John Carroll will be teaching a...
03/21/2006: Unfortunate writing contest: From McSweeney's: "Lemony Snicket's story in the Noisy Outlaws anthology...
03/18/2006: New gig: Author and LA Times columnist Patt Morrison is the new...
03/17/2006: Celebrating a little book with a great big heart: We've been so busy with all of the amazing Book...
03/17/2006: Save the Merc: From today's LAT: "Employees of the San Jose Mercury News...
03/12/2006: Happy Book Week! Long Beach is reading My California and the city's schools...
03/07/2006: 10,000 poems: The National Steinbeck Center puts out a call for poets...
03/02/2006: More freeway musings: Paddy shares this note from John Fante biographer Steve Cooper...
03/02/2006: Flog & Blog: The ever-energetic David Kipen is guest blogging his whirlwind California...
02/27/2006: Novel institution: UCLA is the home of the newly founded California Rare...
02/27/2006: Otis Chandler, publisher of the Los Angeles Times from 1960 to 1980...
02/24/2006: Right coast notes: Mark Sarvas talks with former San Francisco Chronicle Book Critic...
02/24/2006: Tales of the city: From Leah Garchik's Chron column: "Browsing through Armistead Maupin's Web...
02/22/2006: Brewing success: Author Luis Rodriguez celebrates the fourth birthday of his Tia...
02/21/2006: BoingBoing book deal: LA writer and BoingBoing co-founder Mark Frauenfelder has sold Rule...
02/21/2006: Pointers: From Frances Dinkelspiel at Ghost Word : "The Bancroft Library...
02/21/2006: Bar stories: Maura Dolan has a good Column One today about California...
02/17/2006: In celebration of National Poetry Month, P&W magazine serves up an all-poetry edition of Page One...
02/11/2006: Novel spots: SantaBarbara.com picks the best coffeeshops for writers ...
02/08/2006: Audio lit: Check out LibriVox , a site that shares free book...
02/08/2006: West Coast book world: The Getty searches for a new publisher ...
02/07/2006: Out there: Ray Bradbury insists that LA's future is up in the...
02/05/2006: What's your story? The Long Beach Press-Telegram is sponoring a citywide essay contest...
02/05/2006: Sunday snapshots... • The Chronicle goes On The Town with Derek Powazek...
02/02/2006: Tonight: My California contributor Firoozeh Dumas is at the Marina Pacifica...
02/01/2006: Frey's fallout: James Frey is adding an Author's Note to his controversial...
01/28/2006: The RAND Corporation has published its list of " 50 Books for Thinking...
01/25/2006: A new chapter: High-tech titan Tom Perkins has taken an unususal career turn...
01/24/2006: Look into the future in our one-of-a-kind list of new California books. New 2006...
01/24/2006: Book notes: Los Angeles is the third most popular setting for fiction...
01/24/2006: Talk about deadline pressure: John Lescroart explains how he turns in a new novel...
01/24/2006: Cutting edge: O'Reilly and Associates has just launched Roughcuts, a service that...
01/20/2006: SOS from Corte Madera: The Book Passage newsletter just arrived with this disheartening report...
01/20/2006: Words, words, words: The Alameda Times-Star checks in on The California Dictionary Project...
01/18/2006: The life of a litblogger: The LAist features a Q & A with Mark Sarvas...
01/13/2006: Closing: Dutton's Bookstore in North Hollywood is calling it quits after...
01/12/2006: Update: The Los Angeles Times launches its revamped Sunday magazine, West...
01/11/2006: San Francisco has a new poet laureate: social activist Jack Hirschman. He starts his new job on...
01/11/2006: Counter intelligence: Powells bookstore employees share their favorite books from 2005 ...
01/09/2006: Cityscapes: Steve Brown of The Chico Enterprise includes a nice mention...
01/09/2006: Winter crop: Browse our one-of-a-kind list of latest California books , updated...
01/09/2006: Passages: The LAT's Mary Rourke remembers Ofelia Fox, the first lady...
01/04/2006: Previously featured: as our new release of the week: Saving Fish from...
12/31/2005: The word of the year is... hubris ...
12/29/2005: Great stories: Andy Bowers at Slate points us to the Little Toe...
12/24/2005: In this season of giving, you can do something real for a real New Orleans...
12/23/2005: Finding truth in fiction: The Oakland Tribune is asking readers to mail in copies...
12/22/2005: Dear Book Biz Santa: Authors share their holiday letters and laments ...
12/21/2005: The writer and the immigration service: Beijing-born writer Yiyun Li tries to explain to the federal...
12/21/2005: The giving season: From Ghost Word: " Debi Echlin , the late, lamented...
12/19/2005: Monday Miscellany: • NYT Ombudsman Byron Calame pens a wishy washy column...
12/17/2005: This week in fREADom: Headlines from this morning's Amercian Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression...
12/16/2005: Revisiting.. "A California Christmas" Behold where Beauty walks with Peace! Behold...
12/16/2005: Operation Homecoming: Next fall Random House will publish Above and Beyond: Iraq...
12/15/2005: Twelve months of torture, disaster, hubris, the goat rodeo, etc.: Vote here for Word of the Year...
12/12/2005: Going to extremes: In today's Hartford Courant, John Freeman profiles William T. Vollman...
12/09/2005: Miscellany: As we head into the weekend, it's a good time...
12/04/2005: Self-help empire: The San Diego Tribune has a Q&A with Reid Tracy...
11/29/2005: From the NYT: 100 Notable Books of the Year ...
11/29/2005: Former LAT book editor Steve Wasserman expounds on The Plight of the L.A. Times...
11/22/2005: World Library online: Heidi Benson of the San Francisco Chronicle profiles Brewster Kahle...
11/15/2005: Lost artist: Bookseller Davis Dutton unravels the mystery of a painting he...
11/15/2005: Writing in the dust: Alan Rifkin on LA Lit: "For decades, L.A. has been...
11/15/2005: LA blues: The Los Angeles Times ">kills its Outdoors section ... and...
11/14/2005: Ten years of Salon: Gary Kamiya looks back at the magazine's first decade...
11/09/2005: The light in yesterday's election: Salinas votes to keep its libraries open...
11/09/2005: Bits & Pieces: We're playing a little catch up this morning... • World...
11/07/2005: Booktowns: The LAT's Kenneth Turan explores the bookstores in two Gold...
11/06/2005: Previously featured: as our new release of the week: Spook: Science Tackles...
11/02/2005: New media: The NYT has the scoop on DogCatRadio.com , a new...
11/02/2005: Dishing: LA Times food section staffers share their favorite cookbooks ...
11/01/2005: Elements of Style: It's a reference book and a new opera : Although...
10/31/2005: 100 novels: " My list is not and was never intended to...
10/28/2005: Throw another plot on to boil: Michael Kinsley thoughtfully sums up the Snookergate backstory: "Confused? Sure...
10/27/2005: The city lites: San Francisco in Jello . [from powazek.com ...
10/26/2005: Moonlighting: The LAT features California Senator Barbara Boxer and her new...
10/23/2005: A few of her favorite things (to say about a book): blockheaded, annoying, hectoring, biased, didactic, tendentious, obtuse, inane, haphazard, messy...
10/22/2005: Incognito: Gotta love these new book covers , which wrap around...
10/22/2005: Through my window: Joe Honig on being in transit in LA. My friend...
10/17/2005: The A list: Time magazine picks the 100 best novels ...
10/17/2005: What I'm reading: "Two new books have recently made their way to my...
10/17/2005: Morning mail: Deanne Stillman sends word about an interesting new anthology, Unbridled...
10/17/2005: The Southern California Booksellers Association hands out its annual book prizes to Lisa See, T...
10/15/2005: Previously featured: as our new release of the week: 78 Reasons Why...
10/15/2005: Living in LA: Author Aimee Bender on where she likes to bring visitors...
10/14/2005: This weekend: San Francisco's Lit Crawl . The Chronicle's Culture Blog previews...
10/14/2005: Today's quote: "You know your kidnapping is probably going to turn out...
10/13/2005: California 101: Greg Critser looks at Kevin Starr's new book for LA...
10/12/2005: Good works: Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things is a...
10/11/2005: Miscellany: Salon features another installment of Cory Doctorow's novel-in-progress . He...
10/09/2005: Cheers & tears in Menlo Park: Kepler's bookstore re-opens . "I thank you all," says Clark...
10/09/2005: Boot camp book club: In today's LAT Magazzine Michael Slenske looks at the slew...
10/07/2005: Book Sense: Indy bookstores name their November picks, among them All the...
10/04/2005: Move over Google: The University of California libraries have joined an effort to...
10/04/2005: Howl! The Chronicle's Heidi Benson marks the fiftieth anniversary of the...
10/04/2005: `Life changes in the instant': The NYT's Michiko Kakutani reviews Joan Didion's book about the...
10/03/2005: Previously featured: as our new release of the week: Cooking School Secrets...
10/03/2005: Good news: Kepler's bookstore reopens this Saturday ! More in the SJMN...
09/29/2005: This weekend: Stop by the West Hollywood Book Fair , all day...
09/28/2005: Today's quote: "If I’m not reading this, who in hell is?" —...
09/27/2005: From sex to scrapbooking: John Woestendiek on why Dummies Rule ...
09/26/2005: From McSweeney's: "If you would like to participate in a McSweeney's/Voice of...
09/21/2005: A radical move: Cody's , a Berkeley institution, expands to San Francisco .....
09/21/2005: Dreamers and telephone screamers: Columnist Steve Lopez responds to David Geffen and the other...
09/21/2005: Q & A: The Elegant Variation chats with David Ulin , the new...
09/20/2005: No strings attached: The MacArthur Foundation hands out its genius grants today...
09/20/2005: Goodbye: "As we see decades of newspaper experience and institutional memory...
09/20/2005: Writers4Relief: The new Book Passage newsletter brings a recap of the...
09/20/2005: What I'm reading: "If there is one truth that can be gathered from...
09/18/2005: Making a habit of generosity: Michelle Singletary of The Washington Post makes her September picks...
09/18/2005: The kinda story you'd usually find in the other Times: Jim Rainey looks at David Geffen's interest in buying the...
09/15/2005: Murder by the Bay: California's newest author is... former San Francisco Police Chief Earl...
09/14/2005: Update on Kepler's: Clark Kepler has postponed filing for bankruptcy while a group...
09/13/2005: Your name in an upcoming novel: Bidding is now underway here , all for a good...
09/13/2005: The bomb essay: Ann Hulbert writes at Slate about the renewed emphasis on...
09/13/2005: Seed money: The American Booksellers Association has created a Bookseller Relief Fund...
09/12/2005: Updated today: Our one-of-a-kind California new releases list. See it now ...
09/12/2005: Previously featured as our new release of the week: A Field Guide...
09/09/2005: Crash course in consciousness: San Francisco author Rebecca Solnit writes in the October Harper's...
09/09/2005: Flip flops: A Michael Jackson juror sues his publisher to get out...
09/08/2005: Just out: the San Francisco Literary Map , with illustrations by Paul...
09/07/2005: Writers4Relief: Book Passage in Corte Madera hosts a Hurricane Katrina benefit...
09/02/2005: Wise words from the Gulf Coast: Kate shares a letter from friend Philip: The outpouring of...
08/31/2005: Oh no: From Palo Alto Online News : Kepler's , a landmark...
08/30/2005: Cowboys and killers: Jonathan Kirsch on Percival Everett's new novel, a murder mystery...
08/29/2005: Capitol Eye for the Book Guy: We were sorry to miss Sunday's send off for David...
08/26/2005: This weekend: The "I Feel-the-Need-to-Read" bookstore tour roams San Diego. Saturday stops...
08/25/2005: Pull Yourself Up by Your Bra Straps: Any author who can sell 15,000 books in eight minutes...
08/25/2005: And now for something completely different: David Ulin's mission as the new LAT book editor is...
08/24/2005: More California book news: The National Endowment for the Arts has named San Francisco...
08/24/2005: LAT Book Review: David L. Ulin , a local author, editor and book...
08/23/2005: Q & A du jour: The LAist visits with Daniel Olivas , a Los Angeles...
08/22/2005: Berkeley poet: Inside Bay Area has a Q & A with Al...
08/22/2005: Every nine seconds: Eileen Mitchell writes in the San Francisco Chronicle about One...
08/20/2005: Yadda yadda yadda: California authors talking, all around the web... • Michael Chabon...
08/18/2005: Chica lit: Former LAT writer Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez — tagged this week by...
08/18/2005: On the road: Saturday is Arts Day at the California State Fair in...
08/17/2005: Out there: Sixteen novelists , including California writers Michael Chabon, Daniel Handler...
08/16/2005: Summer hiatus: Kate and I have been swamped with projects all summer...
08/10/2005: Back to the books. Looking for that dog day read? Find it in our...
08/10/2005: Previously featured: as our new release of the week: The People of...
08/08/2005: Dispatches: Check out the freshly designed and expanded World Hum ...
08/05/2005: The Self-Illustrated Man: Carolyn See ponders Ray Bradbury's new essay collection in her...
08/03/2005: Quote of the day: "It is unusual to have this kind of disagreement about...
07/31/2005: Yippee: The Long Beach Public Library Foundation has just selected our...
07/29/2005: Summer reruns: Hal R. Varian, a professor of business, economics and information...
07/28/2005: Miscellany: Fire-breathing dragons in San Francisco and a coupla other tidbits...
07/23/2005: Stanford book prizes: Here are the winners of the 2005 William Saroyan International...
07/18/2005: On the beach: The Orange County Register kicks off its new "My Town...
07/14/2005: Harry Potter and the sleepy campers: We've pretty much skipped the whole Harry Potter frenzy... but...
07/13/2005: Dispatches: The New York Observer does a round up of Iraq...
07/12/2005: The art and chaos of collaboration: Foreign correspondents Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan teamed up to...
07/08/2005: On the road: "This is a very experimental reading, so it's possible it...
07/07/2005: `California poetry is our conversation between the past and present': National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Dana Gioia has now...
07/05/2005: Good karma, good books: The ever-ebullient Gayle Brandeis advises... it's Buy a Friend a...
07/05/2005: On the soft side: Despite his network PR blitz, Michael Eisner's memoir Camp ...
07/04/2005: Sparklers: A coupla shorts from the holiday weekend... • John Battelle...
07/03/2005: Help pick a book for Long Beach: Press Telegram columnist Tom Hennessy polls readers about their choices...
07/01/2005: San Francisco's new librarian: The Chronicle profiles Luis Herrera , who is overseeing the...
07/01/2005: Her backstory: "You’d think after all those years as an editor, I’d...
06/30/2005: What I'm reading: Novelist Allen M. Jones on Decade of the Wolf: Returning...
06/27/2005: Pocket aces: Just in time for the World Series of Poker, the...
06/24/2005: California stories to come: The fall Heyday Books catalogue just arrived and previews TWO...
06/22/2005: Quote of the day: "Though your publicist may have not gotten your book to...
06/21/2005: Bookmark it: Publiclibraries.com , a helpful hub for browsing libraries great and...
06/20/2005: Chatter: The San Francisco Chronicle launches a Culture Blog . The...
06/20/2005: Talent scout, writing coach and living legend: The Washington Post's David Von Drehle remembers Gene Miller ...
06/20/2005: Time out: The Los Angeles Times has pulled the plug on the...
06/18/2005: Seventy-eight years after his aunt checked out Rudyard Kipling's Kim , Jim...
06/17/2005: Endnotes: Whatta week here in Kollyfornia! Four temblors and a tsunami...
06/17/2005: In search of poetic justice: The LAT profiles librarian Alan Cordle, founder of foetry.com and...
06/16/2005: Sean Wilsey writes about the glories of his book tour: "I've been on...
06/16/2005: Freedom to read update: From the ABFFE's news alert: "In a vote that sends...
06/16/2005: Deep Throat's deal: Universal Pictures and PublicAffairs have agreed to pay close to...
06/14/2005: Just two days left ...in the ABFFE Online Auction , which features autographed books...
06/14/2005: Bucking the trend: USC's Susan Estrich joins the stampede of authors cranking out...
06/13/2005: How-to: The blog at Make magazine offers a handy guide to...
06/13/2005: Hollywood rolls in the mud: The Sun Herald in Biloxi tracks the efforts of Barbara...
06/12/2005: This weekend: Today is the El Segundo Public Library's annual Author Fair...
06/10/2005: On the road: Los Angeles writer Eric Stone kicked off a cross-country driving...
06/09/2005: Author bows out: Richard Rodriguez cancelled his weekend commencement talk at California State...
06/09/2005: Choices, choices: The City Arts & Lectures' 25th annual literary series has...
06/07/2005: Remarkable people, beautiful photography: Pulitzer Prize-winning California photographer Rick Rickman & Co. (including our...
06/07/2005: ROAR: Reach Out and Read , a nonprofit that hands out...
06/06/2005: Poor little rich boy: Chronicle Book Editor Oscar Villalon wades into Sean Wilsey's Oh...
06/06/2005: Is California First Lady Maria Shriver still working for NBC? David Carr of The New York...
06/03/2005: Small is beautiful: LA Weekly's Literary Supplement profiles eighteen independent publishers scattered across...
06/02/2005: Fresh: 17 new entries in our one-of-a-kind list of California books...
06/02/2005: Out there: The LAT's Martin Miller speculates on the expected tell-all by...
06/01/2005: Book bling: Today Paddy and Scott of Angel City Press turned up...
06/01/2005: Secret Sources: "This is a perfect example of why, sometimes as a...
05/31/2005: Beyond Hogwarts: Chronicle Book Editor Oscar Villalon inventories the books of summer...
05/31/2005: This week: The LAT's Scott Martelle previews Book Expo America , which...
05/27/2005: What I'm reading: "(Editor Howard) Junker should be proud of this anthology. He...
05/26/2005: A company man: David Kipen revisits Ross Thomas ("He died in 1995, and...
05/26/2005: Quote of the day: "The malaise, you can cut it with a knife," Hodding...
05/24/2005: An uncivil era: Veteran journalist Karl Fleming was on Larry Mantle's radio show...
05/24/2005: Joy of update. New today at CaliforniaAuthors.com: devorah major's introduction to The Other...
05/24/2005: Previously featured: as our new release of the week: Oh the Glory...
05/24/2005: Classic lines: "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved...
05/23/2005: Monday miscellany: Michael Connelly may not live here anymore, but he still...
05/19/2005: History book blitz: Ghost Word points us to a Slate discussion on writing...
05/18/2005: Disturbing delivery: A Southern California woman who says she received a desecrated...
05/18/2005: The Distempers of L.A.: D.J. Waldie, Patt Morrison, Joel Kotkin and others chew on...
05/17/2005: California Book Awards: The Commonwealth Club gives its gold medals to novelist Andrew...
05/16/2005: Make your summer count: Our Marketplace has great leads on summer workshops for writers...
05/16/2005: Previously featured: as our new release of the week: The Geneticist who...
05/16/2005: Latino sprawl: Newsweek features Hector Tobar's new Translation Nation: Defining a New...
05/16/2005: On the road: Last week Julee Morris shut her Long Beach shop, Once...
05/16/2005: Bookmark it: The California Arts Council has a fresh new website ...
05/13/2005: Update: The governor picks Al Young , a poet, screenwriter and...
05/13/2005: Drugstore cowboys: Salon has a smart review of Dangerous Doses: How Counterfeiters...
05/13/2005: So long: Heidi Benson of the Chronicle profiles departing LA Times Book...
05/12/2005: See you in September: Jennifer Smith Hale, the owner of Santa Barbara Magazine ...
05/11/2005: Extreme deadline: "I could write a better book if I were locked...
05/10/2005: Live from San Francisco: Veronique de Turenne writes in the LA Times today about...
05/09/2005: The wall (finally!) crumbles: LAObserved reports: "It's official —the L.A. Times' ill-conceived experiment with...
05/07/2005: What indy booksellers like for summer: The June 2005 Book Sense Picks include Isabel Allende's Zorro...
05/06/2005: Wow: Friends of the San Francisco Public Library has posted photos...
05/06/2005: This weekend: The Union Tribune rolls out Race for Literacy Weekend ...
05/05/2005: Uni-literal: Euros fear the Google Print project — an ambitious plan...
05/04/2005: Miscellany ... Dawson's Book Shop — 535 N. Larchmont Blvd. in L.A...
05/04/2005: California cookbook authors (and publishers) were a major presence in the 2005 James...
05/03/2005: More kudos for MT: San Francisco writer Andrew Sean Greer has won the New...
05/03/2005: Book 'em: LAPDauthors.com , a website packed with books written by cops...
05/02/2005: Steve Wasserman has resigned as Editor of the Los Angeles Times Book...
05/02/2005: Just updated: What California is reading . Our ever-expanding Literary Events Links...
05/02/2005: Previously featured: as our new release of the week: The Other Side...
05/02/2005: Apples and authors: J.D. Lasica on Steve Jobs' ban on Wiley books from...
05/02/2005: Large books, small room: Ray Bradbury shares his reading list with The Believer ...
04/29/2005: The Edgars: The Mystery Writers of America has named California Girl by...
04/29/2005: Blog buzz: Mystery novelist Roger L. Simon tells the LA Press Club...
04/28/2005: Opening lines: "When we remember Jonestown, we usually remember the deaths of...
04/27/2005: Exploring why some civilizations die and others thrive: Pat Joseph of Sierra Magazine talks with UCLA professor and...
04/27/2005: The California Center for the Book has a new director: Cindy Mediavilla , a former Orange...
04/27/2005: Ringmaster: The LAT profiles Peter Shaplen , the former Bay Area...
04/25/2005: Whew! Been such a busy, book-centric weekend that we're just now...
04/21/2005: Dear Oprah: More than 150 authors pen a letter asking daytime's TV...
04/21/2005: A novel setting: In today's LAT, Scott Martelle hits the road to search...
04/20/2005: In the headlights: Author Firoozeh Dumas debuts in her upcoming one-woman show, ...
04/19/2005: Mickey's gang: BoingBoing reports on another writer, David Koenig , rousted at...
04/18/2005: Previously featured: as our new release of the week: The Night Garden...
04/18/2005: Road trips: NPR looks at the long, strange journey of Albert Einstein's...
04/15/2005: This weekend: Tickets are up for grabs starting Sunday for next weekend's...
04/15/2005: Kulcha watch: In the Wall Street Journal Cathy Seipp notes LA bloggers...
04/14/2005: Jazz poet: LA Weekly profiles Kamau Daáood — "the founder, presiding elder...
04/14/2005: Very short fiction: Kathi Kamen Goldmark and Sam Barry, aka the Author Enablers...
04/13/2005: California mags: Wired and Dwell both pick up General Excellence honors in...
04/13/2005: Easy writer: Walter Mosley is back in LA as the city reads...
04/13/2005: In cosmic order ... today is a great day to write poetry ...
04/12/2005: The Guggenheim Foundation takes out a full page ad in today's NYT to...
04/12/2005: Regan heads to Hollywood: Judith Regan, whose Regan Books imprint has produced best sellers...
04/11/2005: In your search for the new: Our one-of-a-kind list of California book releases was updated today...
04/11/2005: Previously featured as our new release of the week: Sight Hound ...
04/11/2005: Today's quote: "Some might call the tight-knit McSweeney's Universe a community, others...
04/11/2005: Charlotte S. Huck, an expert on children's literature who wrote children's books and organized festivals to encourage youngsters...
04/08/2005: Blog love: "What would happen if a bunch of your favorite literary...
04/07/2005: A lifeline for Salinas: Area businesses, restaurants, foundations and kids with lemonade stands all...
04/07/2005: The Caltech scientist is gone, but not his book tour. From today's NYT: It is...
04/05/2005: The war at home: The New Yorker chats with Sean Wilsey about his upcoming...
04/05/2005: Making your passion your profession: World Hum has an interesting Q&A with Don George, former...
04/04/2005: The 2005 Pulitzer Prizes are announced today and the Los Angeles Times picks up...
04/04/2005: Previously featured: as our new release of the week: John James Audubon...
04/04/2005: Come and get em: Tasty new titles in our just-updated Latest California Books column...
04/04/2005: More community books: This spring: • Whittier is reading Funny in Farsi by...
04/01/2005: Live from LA: Today marks the 20th anniversary of AirTalk , the KPCC...
03/31/2005: Barbarians at the plate: San Francisco Chronicle reporters Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada are...
03/29/2005: Novelist invests in future fiction: John Lescroart has donated $50,000 to the UC Davis graduate...
03/28/2005: Skyrocketing: The prices of college textbooks are rising at more than...
03/28/2005: TEV checks out the weekend scene: "L.A.'s literati came out in droves to celebrate the launch...
03/25/2005: It's your store: San Francisco State University Bookstore has launched a poster campaign...
03/24/2005: `Less Mayberry than dingleberry': Book critic and radio commentator David Kipen bemoans that the...
03/24/2005: Spring break: Malibu has settled on a Southern California classic for its...
03/24/2005: Notes from the road: Police and Poetry I saw him parked in the middle...
03/23/2005: San Francisco, or at least Pacific Heights, is buzzing about... Oh the Glory of It All , the upcoming...
03/23/2005: Update: The finalists for California's Poet Laureate are: • Wanda Coleman...
03/23/2005: The latest bounty: Savor the fresh spring novels from Pamela Holm, Jessica Barksdale...
03/22/2005: Laurels: Quite a few California publications are among the finalists in...
03/21/2005: Busted: "In the 25 years that I have been writing ...
03/21/2005: Online follies... • The B word: A Canadian sez he was strip-searched...
03/20/2005: San Francisco writer Philip Lamantia, who befriended Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac as a young...
03/18/2005: Playing this weekend: "As you read [these] often absorbing accounts, you can feel...
03/18/2005: Cracking the whip in San Francisco: Chronicle management posts proposals for cutting sick and vacation time...
03/16/2005: Try this: Spell out the names of your favorite California author or...
03/15/2005: Cruising cool intersections: Author and writing coach Bob Baker on "the reason I...
03/15/2005: Eclectic & eccentric: Peter Carlson of the Washington Post pens an enthustiastic profile...
03/14/2005: Word-of-mouth success story: The San Francisco Chronicle's Edward Guthmann catches up with Northern...
03/14/2005: Update: Congressman Bernie Sanders has reintroduced the Freedom to Read Protection...
03/14/2005: How do you bring poetry to the people? Ted Kooser delivers it to their front...
03/11/2005: 411: The San Francisco Bay Guardian publishes a handy guide to...