This coming week we’ll be giving away an autographed copy of Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique by Michael S. Gazzaniga.
Gazzaniga is the director of UC Santa Barbara’s SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind. His new book is an engaging (and easy reading) exploration of the latest research into the [...]
Stories in Nonfiction:
Book lotto: Human gets inside our heads
Making points California authors style
Ah, remember those heady days when you didn’t even need to finish a sentence to get your internet IPO rolling? Times have changed, but in the post-post-bubble business world, California authors are still writing the book on getting your big dream across. Recent offerings:
Good in a Room, by Stephanie Palmer. A former MGM Director of [...]
No place like home: California authors on California
A commitment to the terroir: On June 30, University of California Press released Wines & Wineries of California’s Central Coast by William A. Ausmus (I ordered mine today) and the Los Angeles Times’ Corie Brown uses the occasion to offer an interesting look at the University of California Press’ move into wine books — they’ve [...]
More summertime books and a few stray notes
The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression names its Book of the Month for June: Claim of Privilege by Barry Siegel, the former LA Times national correspondent who now heads the Literary Journalism Program at UC Irvine.
The ABFFE says: “Siegel uncovers the mystery behind a 1948 plane crash and the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in [...]
Restoring the heroes’ welcome
Sunday is the 64th anniversary of the G.I. Bill, which sent a generation of veterans to college after World War II. CBS Sunday Morning features a segment on the history of the landmark legislation and the push in Congress to improve the current G.I. Bill (a puny shadow of its former self) to provide better [...]
What I’m reading
Author Edward Humes reviews LA Times columnist Steve Lopez’s new book and finds it “a very human drama that is hard to put down.” A snippet:
Los Angeles’ skid row, as Steve Lopez writes in “The Soloist,” is the homeless capital of the nation.
Hidden in plain sight just down the street from City Hall and mere [...]
Saucy schemes and new stories
Isabel Allende’s memoir is just out: The Sums of Our Days… novelist Tobias Wolff is on the cover of Poets and Writers magazine (though the story is not yet available online)… Veronique de Turenne teams up with Ernest Marquez to chronicle Southern California’s century as a maritime hub in Port of Los Angeles… former Islands [...]
Previously featured
as our new release of the week: Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century. By Alex Steffen (Sterling Books). Steffen and an army of contributors have compiled a roadmap for a future that is ‘bright, green, free and tough.” Business Week says WorldChanging “reads like a smart, hip mini-encyclopedia of what’s new and [...]
Up all night
Lotsa buzz around the web about Edward Humes’ Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America’s Soul, just released today.
From top science blogger PZ Myers:
Oh but I am dragging this morning. Have you ever done that thing where you start reading a book and you don’t want to put it down, and [...]
Book lotto: Human gets inside our heads
Making points California authors style
Ah, remember those heady days when you didn’t even need to finish a sentence to get your internet IPO rolling? Times have changed, but in the post-post-bubble business world, California authors are still writing the book on getting your big dream across. Recent offerings:
Good in a Room, by Stephanie Palmer. A former MGM Director of [...]
No place like home: California authors on California
A commitment to the terroir: On June 30, University of California Press released Wines & Wineries of California’s Central Coast by William A. Ausmus (I ordered mine today) and the Los Angeles Times’ Corie Brown uses the occasion to offer an interesting look at the University of California Press’ move into wine books — they’ve [...]
More summertime books and a few stray notes
The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression names its Book of the Month for June: Claim of Privilege by Barry Siegel, the former LA Times national correspondent who now heads the Literary Journalism Program at UC Irvine.
The ABFFE says: “Siegel uncovers the mystery behind a 1948 plane crash and the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in [...]
Restoring the heroes’ welcome
Sunday is the 64th anniversary of the G.I. Bill, which sent a generation of veterans to college after World War II. CBS Sunday Morning features a segment on the history of the landmark legislation and the push in Congress to improve the current G.I. Bill (a puny shadow of its former self) to provide better [...]
What I’m reading
Author Edward Humes reviews LA Times columnist Steve Lopez’s new book and finds it “a very human drama that is hard to put down.” A snippet:
Los Angeles’ skid row, as Steve Lopez writes in “The Soloist,” is the homeless capital of the nation.
Hidden in plain sight just down the street from City Hall and mere [...]
Saucy schemes and new stories
Isabel Allende’s memoir is just out: The Sums of Our Days… novelist Tobias Wolff is on the cover of Poets and Writers magazine (though the story is not yet available online)… Veronique de Turenne teams up with Ernest Marquez to chronicle Southern California’s century as a maritime hub in Port of Los Angeles… former Islands [...]
Previously featured
as our new release of the week: Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century. By Alex Steffen (Sterling Books). Steffen and an army of contributors have compiled a roadmap for a future that is ‘bright, green, free and tough.” Business Week says WorldChanging “reads like a smart, hip mini-encyclopedia of what’s new and [...]
Up all night
Lotsa buzz around the web about Edward Humes’ Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America’s Soul, just released today.
From top science blogger PZ Myers:
Oh but I am dragging this morning. Have you ever done that thing where you start reading a book and you don’t want to put it down, and [...]
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, 
July briefs: censorship, fires, new fiction and a b-day
No room for Freedom in Perry, Indiana. A veteran high school teacher in Perry, Indiana has been suspended without pay for teaching The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them. The book by Long Beach, California teacher/author Erin Gruwell and her students [...]
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