I’m enjoying browsing the wealth of eco-friendly books at BEA, including the new Greenopia guides to Los Angeles and San Francisco and the just-released A Spring without Bees by Michael Schacker.
Other choice goodies that found their way into my 100% reusable and recyclable book bag (courtesy of Chronicle Books) are this trio of Big [...]
Stories in Bookbloggery:
Some BookExpo grazing
A new day at CaliforniaAuthors and a book lotto, too
Welcome to the new CaliforniaAuthors.com! Click around and you’ll find our familiar features with a fresh face and an easy-to-navigate new site.
To celebrate our re-launch, Kate and I are delighted to share an autographed copy of Mark Sarvas’ new novel, Harry, Revised.
Mark hosts the popular and often cheeky litblog, The Elegant Variation. Along [...]
See you at the Festival of Books
This weekend I’ll be at UCLA on Sunday soaking up the sunshine and signing copies of My California: Journeys by Great Writers with Edward Humes and Veronique de Turenne. From 1-2 pm, we’ll be parked at the Angel City Press booth (near Royce Hall).
Carolyn See joins us at 2 pm. Carolyn, btw, has an [...]
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 [...]
Overheard
“I’m sitting in an airport where someone just had Elliot Spitzer paged to Gate 32. No one seemed to notice. Though it would have been funnier to have him paged to Gate 9.” — author Mark Sarvas blogging at the Elegant Variation.
Books by the Bay
Frances Dinkelspiel, host of the Ghost Word blog, checks out the new San Francisco Chronicle Book Review and sez “I must pronounce it a success.”
The Chronicle’s editors reduced the size of the section to save printing costs, but it has the unintended consequence of making the review feel more intimate and cohesive. Editor Oscar Villalon [...]
Guilty pleasures
Novelist and literary fiction aficionado Mark Sarvas has a fun post today about his secret past as a phaser-packing Star Trek geek — a revelation inspired by the publication of Captain Kirk’s Guide to Women.
So, I’m a rabid Trek fan, and William Shatner comes to town on his now infamous university lecture tour, the [...]
A Christmas eve wake
Richard at Esotouric bemoans the passing of LA’s Craby Joe’s bar.
As Musso & Frank and their employees are a living testament to Hollywood and its golden age, so Craby Joe’s is to downtown Los Angeles’ tenderloin on Main street. At the corner of 7th and Main since 1933, it will close it [...]
Who knew?
Ghost Word has an interesting post on the Jewish Book Season and how authors actually audition (”a combination of ‘The Gong Show’ and speed-dating”) for spots at Jewish book fairs and festivals.
The first car bomb.
In his Paper Cuts blog, Dwight Garner points to Daniel Pick’s Times of London review of Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb by Mike Davis: “Pick is impressed with Davis’s book — he calls it ‘serious, disturbing and pessimistic.’ But he’s puzzled by the apparent delight Davis takes in eyeballing all [...]
More LB
Over at LaBloga, Daniel Olivas has a Q&A with Long Beach high school teacher Myriam Gurba, author of a new collection of short stories and a novella called Dahlia Season.
Potty talk
TEV and readers swap bathroom books.
Contemporary crime fiction
Daniel Olivas reviews the Los Angeles Noir anthology, edited by Denise Hamilton with stories by seventeen SoCal writers, for the Elegant Variation. Olivas loves the book (”the authors featured in Los Angeles Noir have big gumshoes to fill. And fill them they do”) and shares some choice tidbits.
Like this one:
Some of the stories take place [...]
Book reviewer v. litblogger smackdown
from the LAT.
Some BookExpo grazing
A new day at CaliforniaAuthors and a book lotto, too
Welcome to the new CaliforniaAuthors.com! Click around and you’ll find our familiar features with a fresh face and an easy-to-navigate new site.
To celebrate our re-launch, Kate and I are delighted to share an autographed copy of Mark Sarvas’ new novel, Harry, Revised.
Mark hosts the popular and often cheeky litblog, The Elegant Variation. Along [...]
See you at the Festival of Books
This weekend I’ll be at UCLA on Sunday soaking up the sunshine and signing copies of My California: Journeys by Great Writers with Edward Humes and Veronique de Turenne. From 1-2 pm, we’ll be parked at the Angel City Press booth (near Royce Hall).
Carolyn See joins us at 2 pm. Carolyn, btw, has an [...]
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 [...]
Overheard
“I’m sitting in an airport where someone just had Elliot Spitzer paged to Gate 32. No one seemed to notice. Though it would have been funnier to have him paged to Gate 9.” — author Mark Sarvas blogging at the Elegant Variation.
Books by the Bay
Frances Dinkelspiel, host of the Ghost Word blog, checks out the new San Francisco Chronicle Book Review and sez “I must pronounce it a success.”
The Chronicle’s editors reduced the size of the section to save printing costs, but it has the unintended consequence of making the review feel more intimate and cohesive. Editor Oscar Villalon [...]
Guilty pleasures
Novelist and literary fiction aficionado Mark Sarvas has a fun post today about his secret past as a phaser-packing Star Trek geek — a revelation inspired by the publication of Captain Kirk’s Guide to Women.
So, I’m a rabid Trek fan, and William Shatner comes to town on his now infamous university lecture tour, the [...]
A Christmas eve wake
Richard at Esotouric bemoans the passing of LA’s Craby Joe’s bar.
As Musso & Frank and their employees are a living testament to Hollywood and its golden age, so Craby Joe’s is to downtown Los Angeles’ tenderloin on Main street. At the corner of 7th and Main since 1933, it will close it [...]
Who knew?
Ghost Word has an interesting post on the Jewish Book Season and how authors actually audition (”a combination of ‘The Gong Show’ and speed-dating”) for spots at Jewish book fairs and festivals.
The first car bomb.
In his Paper Cuts blog, Dwight Garner points to Daniel Pick’s Times of London review of Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb by Mike Davis: “Pick is impressed with Davis’s book — he calls it ‘serious, disturbing and pessimistic.’ But he’s puzzled by the apparent delight Davis takes in eyeballing all [...]
More LB
Over at LaBloga, Daniel Olivas has a Q&A with Long Beach high school teacher Myriam Gurba, author of a new collection of short stories and a novella called Dahlia Season.
Potty talk
TEV and readers swap bathroom books.
Contemporary crime fiction
Daniel Olivas reviews the Los Angeles Noir anthology, edited by Denise Hamilton with stories by seventeen SoCal writers, for the Elegant Variation. Olivas loves the book (”the authors featured in Los Angeles Noir have big gumshoes to fill. And fill them they do”) and shares some choice tidbits.
Like this one:
Some of the stories take place [...]
Book reviewer v. litblogger smackdown
from the LAT.
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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