This weekend, the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas hosts a summertime fiesta that explores Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck’s connection to Mexico in his travels and writings (such as Log from the Sea of Cortez, The Pearl, and Tortilla Flat). Monterey County Herald.
On Saturday: Big Sur celebrates the publication of Ping•Pong, the Literary Magazine of the [...]
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A California dream weekend
Book reviewer v. litblogger smackdown
from the LAT.
Lauded
McSweeney’s won the 2007 National Magazine Award for excellence in Fiction, honoring “the quality of a publication’s literary selections.” Among the other finalists in the category: The New Yorker and Zoetrope All-Story. The awards were presented by the American Society of Magazine Editors this week in NYC. See a list winners and finalists in [...]
The LA Times debuts
its revamped Book Review on Sunday and book editor David Ulin talks about the changes, which include a new push to add book extras online. Among them: “Today, we inaugurate a rotating cycle of Web-only columns with Sarah Weinman’s “Dark Passages,” devoted to mysteries and suspense fiction. Next Sunday, Ed Park will initiate a [...]
It’s official
The LA Times is merging the Book Review with the Sunday Opinion section, beginning April 15.
A California dream weekend
Book reviewer v. litblogger smackdown
from the LAT.
Lauded
McSweeney’s won the 2007 National Magazine Award for excellence in Fiction, honoring “the quality of a publication’s literary selections.” Among the other finalists in the category: The New Yorker and Zoetrope All-Story. The awards were presented by the American Society of Magazine Editors this week in NYC. See a list winners and finalists in [...]
The LA Times debuts
its revamped Book Review on Sunday and book editor David Ulin talks about the changes, which include a new push to add book extras online. Among them: “Today, we inaugurate a rotating cycle of Web-only columns with Sarah Weinman’s “Dark Passages,” devoted to mysteries and suspense fiction. Next Sunday, Ed Park will initiate a [...]
It’s official
The LA Times is merging the Book Review with the Sunday Opinion section, beginning April 15.
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, 
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