Facing the indies’ existential dilemma with good graphics and guts, the American Booksellers Association has launched IndieBound.org — the evolution of the organization’s BookSense program to connect readers (read: book-buyers) with local brick-and-mortar independent booksellers. Showing off its web-savvy, the ABA’s new movement-styled marketing effort is useful — as in, their google-mapping indie locator and [...]
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Just noticed that Skylights Books has a new blog … a place you’ll find “comments and insight from people that spend a lot of time underneath a tree surrounded by books and a cat.”
Kate’s new favorite
book website is noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com, cooked up by Miranda July for her upcoming collection of short stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You (excerpt, LAT profile). Why? Because doctors say cute is good for you. Just relax and enjoy it! Then, see the California author/performance artist/film-actor-writer-director (Me and You and Everyone We Know) reading [...]
Destinations
TEV reports that the delightful Village Books has a new website.
The Pacific Palisades shop’s motto: “Large enough to serve you, small enough to know you.”
Fresh and spicy
Kevin at LAObserved points us to TableConversation.com, the delectable new online journal by LA food writer and cookbook author Barbara Hansen.
Born in Hollywood, I live in a 1920s house with a neighbor from Calcutta on one side and, on the other, Koreans who line their garden with kimchi pots.
My own garden contains a Oaxacan avocado [...]
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Ghost Word points us to Kemble Scott’s handy San Francisco Bay Area Literary Arts Newsletter, a Friday round up of book and author events for the week ahead.
Bookmark it
Just noticed that Skylights Books has a new blog … a place you’ll find “comments and insight from people that spend a lot of time underneath a tree surrounded by books and a cat.”
Kate’s new favorite
book website is noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com, cooked up by Miranda July for her upcoming collection of short stories, No One Belongs Here More Than You (excerpt, LAT profile). Why? Because doctors say cute is good for you. Just relax and enjoy it! Then, see the California author/performance artist/film-actor-writer-director (Me and You and Everyone We Know) reading [...]
Destinations
TEV reports that the delightful Village Books has a new website.
The Pacific Palisades shop’s motto: “Large enough to serve you, small enough to know you.”
Fresh and spicy
Kevin at LAObserved points us to TableConversation.com, the delectable new online journal by LA food writer and cookbook author Barbara Hansen.
Born in Hollywood, I live in a 1920s house with a neighbor from Calcutta on one side and, on the other, Koreans who line their garden with kimchi pots.
My own garden contains a Oaxacan avocado [...]
411
Ghost Word points us to Kemble Scott’s handy San Francisco Bay Area Literary Arts Newsletter, a Friday round up of book and author events for the week ahead.
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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