Alice Sebold, Alice Walker, Michael Chabon, and Michael Pollan are among the authors speaking out in support of Proposition 2, the November ballot initiative requiring that farm animals in California have enough room to stand up, turn around and stretch their limbs. Read more about the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act.
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Exploring Alaska, part II
Los Angeles author J. Michael Walker responds to yesterday’s post with his own suggestion.
He says: “Going to Extremes by Joe McGinniss, around late 1980’s I suppose, would have to be a fairly irreplaceable book on outer Alaska, too.
“Parts of it —
swallowing whiskey? vodka? and stepping outside in sub-zero weather and freezing to death from [...]
Suddenly interested in all things Alaska?
A reader at the NYT’s Paper Cuts blog shares this suggestion: “A wonderful book that features Alaska is Drop City by the incredible T.C. Boyle. A group of hippies from California move to a remote part of Alaska in 1970.”
In the future, we will all be online journalists
In an especially dreary week of newspaper layoffs, buyouts and bemoaning, the Word Count blog serves up a timely and very interesting Q&A with Michelle Nicolosi, “One Writer’s Journey From Print to Online News.”
Michelle, formerly a reporter at the Orange County Register, is an assistant managing editor at the Seattle P.I. She runs the [...]
Addressing the junk mail problem
Stopjunkmail.org is a great resource. Built for people in the San Francisco Bay area, the site is useful for anyone with a US postal address. It is free and gives you what you need — including form letters and contact information — to reduce the amount of trash your letter carrier stuffs into your box [...]
Must-read
The new LA Weekly has a terrific cover package on Southern California’s independent bookstores. Gendy Alimurung roams a handful of ‘gloriously idiosyncratic’ indies — Vroman’s, Skylight, Book Soup and Dutton’s, along with two relative newcomers, Family and Diesel — and introduces the idiosyncratic folks who run them.
Lotsa interesting tidbits, like this one:
Tyson Cornell is [...]
Writers workshop
From Holt Uncensored: Ten Mistakes Writers Don’t See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do)
Authors 4 Babe, media moguls & lit world villians
Exploring Alaska, part II
Los Angeles author J. Michael Walker responds to yesterday’s post with his own suggestion.
He says: “Going to Extremes by Joe McGinniss, around late 1980’s I suppose, would have to be a fairly irreplaceable book on outer Alaska, too.
“Parts of it —
swallowing whiskey? vodka? and stepping outside in sub-zero weather and freezing to death from [...]
Suddenly interested in all things Alaska?
A reader at the NYT’s Paper Cuts blog shares this suggestion: “A wonderful book that features Alaska is Drop City by the incredible T.C. Boyle. A group of hippies from California move to a remote part of Alaska in 1970.”
In the future, we will all be online journalists
In an especially dreary week of newspaper layoffs, buyouts and bemoaning, the Word Count blog serves up a timely and very interesting Q&A with Michelle Nicolosi, “One Writer’s Journey From Print to Online News.”
Michelle, formerly a reporter at the Orange County Register, is an assistant managing editor at the Seattle P.I. She runs the [...]
Addressing the junk mail problem
Stopjunkmail.org is a great resource. Built for people in the San Francisco Bay area, the site is useful for anyone with a US postal address. It is free and gives you what you need — including form letters and contact information — to reduce the amount of trash your letter carrier stuffs into your box [...]
Must-read
The new LA Weekly has a terrific cover package on Southern California’s independent bookstores. Gendy Alimurung roams a handful of ‘gloriously idiosyncratic’ indies — Vroman’s, Skylight, Book Soup and Dutton’s, along with two relative newcomers, Family and Diesel — and introduces the idiosyncratic folks who run them.
Lotsa interesting tidbits, like this one:
Tyson Cornell is [...]
Writers workshop
From Holt Uncensored: Ten Mistakes Writers Don’t See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do)
Meet the authors of the California Authors Directory. Visit the directory to discover writers like Andrew Sean Greer, a San Francisco novelist whose latest book, 
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