Author Celeste Fremon talks about the prospects for an eleventh-hour turnaround with former LAT Book Editor Steve Wasserman at her Witness LA blog. Freeman also cites some key facts about why keeping the Book Section is a smart business move.
Curious as to where Los Angeles stands as a book buying market, yesterday I called the [...]
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Can the LA Times Book Review be saved?
Bookish LA
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 [...]
Bravo
Publishers Weekly has named Vroman’s in Pasadena, Southern California’s oldest and biggest bookstore, as Bookseller of the Year. Read more and add your comment at the Vroman’s blog.
In other bookstore news: Cody’s has a new home in downtown Berkeley … The San Francisco State University Bookstore now partners with Eco-Libris and invites customers to plant [...]
Lit epicenter?
The National Book Critics Circle and other book types converge on San Francisco this week to announce the group’s annual award finalists and discuss this topic: Is the West Coast Driving American Literature? Hmmm.
Update: Browse the nominees here. And read a recap from Ghost Word here.
Can the LA Times Book Review be saved?
Bookish LA
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 [...]
Bravo
Publishers Weekly has named Vroman’s in Pasadena, Southern California’s oldest and biggest bookstore, as Bookseller of the Year. Read more and add your comment at the Vroman’s blog.
In other bookstore news: Cody’s has a new home in downtown Berkeley … The San Francisco State University Bookstore now partners with Eco-Libris and invites customers to plant [...]
Lit epicenter?
The National Book Critics Circle and other book types converge on San Francisco this week to announce the group’s annual award finalists and discuss this topic: Is the West Coast Driving American Literature? Hmmm.
Update: Browse the nominees here. And read a recap from Ghost Word here.
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, 