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Bringing books to the poorest corners of the globe
Litquake & a few notes from the fall bookscape
Litquake, San Francisco’s freewheeling storytelling festival, opens on Friday. The San Francisco Chronicle previews.
Michael Pollan is the Diesel Books choice for “Author of the Month.”
Kevin Roderick shares a slice of Sunday’s West Hollywood Book Fair on video.
Ayelet Waldman wraps up her Books for Barack campaign, $68,000 later.
Susan Paterno triumphs against Santa [...]
From blog to book in LA
LA Times reporter Jill Leovy has sold a book to Spiegel & Grau that expands on her excellent Homicide Report blog, which chronicled murders in Los Angeles County (845 in all) during 2007.
Publisher’s Lunch says Leovy’s book — The Homicide Report: Black Men, Murder and America’s Unseen Catastrophe — will weave together “a [...]
She never leaves home without one
Author and columnist Patt Morrison shares her trademark chapeau collection in a video at the Times website. “You wear the hat,” says Patt. “You never ever let the hat wear you.”
Face number one in anti-government-spying video
People for the American Way included Kate and Val Cohen’s protest photos in their new video against illegal domestic spying by our government. Check it out! Then sign the petition against telco immunity today.
Now that’s a great author event
Anita Renfroe boils down everything a mother says during an entire day to two hilarious minutes.
(thanks, Cindy)
Scary movies & other stray notes
• LaObserved reports today that Heritage Book Shop, LA’s rare book store, has been sold.
• LAO also notes that Kristin Gore is now an LA writer. “The 30-year-old daughter of former VP Al Gore lives near downtown with husband Paul Cusack, writes for ‘Saturday Night Live’ and ‘Futurama’ and has a new novel, Sammy’s House, [...]
Two for the broadband
Make magazine’s Mark Frauenfelder trades marshmellow shooter fire with Stephen on The Colbert Report. See the video at makezine.com. Elsewhere, Larry Mantle talks with California Author and renowned scientist, Antonio Damasio about his Brain and Creativity Institute at USC and its intriguing work. Hear it at kpcc.org. (btw: It’s pledge drive, so pony up!)
Bringing books to the poorest corners of the globe
Litquake & a few notes from the fall bookscape
Litquake, San Francisco’s freewheeling storytelling festival, opens on Friday. The San Francisco Chronicle previews.
Michael Pollan is the Diesel Books choice for “Author of the Month.”
Kevin Roderick shares a slice of Sunday’s West Hollywood Book Fair on video.
Ayelet Waldman wraps up her Books for Barack campaign, $68,000 later.
Susan Paterno triumphs against Santa [...]
From blog to book in LA
LA Times reporter Jill Leovy has sold a book to Spiegel & Grau that expands on her excellent Homicide Report blog, which chronicled murders in Los Angeles County (845 in all) during 2007.
Publisher’s Lunch says Leovy’s book — The Homicide Report: Black Men, Murder and America’s Unseen Catastrophe — will weave together “a [...]
She never leaves home without one
Author and columnist Patt Morrison shares her trademark chapeau collection in a video at the Times website. “You wear the hat,” says Patt. “You never ever let the hat wear you.”
Face number one in anti-government-spying video
People for the American Way included Kate and Val Cohen’s protest photos in their new video against illegal domestic spying by our government. Check it out! Then sign the petition against telco immunity today.
Now that’s a great author event
Anita Renfroe boils down everything a mother says during an entire day to two hilarious minutes.
(thanks, Cindy)
Scary movies & other stray notes
• LaObserved reports today that Heritage Book Shop, LA’s rare book store, has been sold.
• LAO also notes that Kristin Gore is now an LA writer. “The 30-year-old daughter of former VP Al Gore lives near downtown with husband Paul Cusack, writes for ‘Saturday Night Live’ and ‘Futurama’ and has a new novel, Sammy’s House, [...]
Two for the broadband
Make magazine’s Mark Frauenfelder trades marshmellow shooter fire with Stephen on The Colbert Report. See the video at makezine.com. Elsewhere, Larry Mantle talks with California Author and renowned scientist, Antonio Damasio about his Brain and Creativity Institute at USC and its intriguing work. Hear it at kpcc.org. (btw: It’s pledge drive, so pony up!)
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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