From William Grimes in today’s NYT: “An odd book fell into my hands recently, a doorstopper with the irresistible title 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die… Two potent factors make 1001 Books compelling: guilt and time. It plays on every serious reader’s lingering sense of inadequacy. Page after page reveals a writer or [...]
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Malibu top ten
The Malibu Times looks at the books locals are buying lately, among them California Poetry (the city’s 2008 One Book, One City pick), The Wentworths by local author Katie Arnoldi, and All for a Few Perfect Waves by David Rensin. Read more here.
On my nightstand
“At the moment I’m re-reading ‘No Matter How Loud I Shout‘ by Edward Humes. It is an account of a year in the life of the juvenile court system in LA. It is beautifully written, with righteous anger, honesty and an insight that few have a handle on. It is both scary and uplifting on [...]
What I’m reading
“I’ve just read Ray Bradbury’s Farewell Summer, the 50+-years-later sequel to Dandelion Wine, and it feels like I’m drunk.” — Cory Doctorow, at BoingBoing.
What I’m Reading
“For about a year, I’ve been catching up on the novels I never got to in college…,” says UC Berkeley writing and grammar guru Steve Tollefson. “Almost every one of these books has been a joy to read: Wallace Stegner’s “The Big Rock Candy Mountain,” Frank Norris’s “The Octopus,” Sinclair Lewis’s “Babbitt,” Jack London’s [...]
What I’m Reading
“Far too many courses and books on Creative Writing teach by negative example: they only tell us what not to do. This is what makes Prose’s master class in fiction so valuable. She provides myriad examples from great classic novels of what fiction looks like when it is done incredibly, perfectly, wonderfully right. Her [...]
Malibu top ten
The Malibu Times looks at the books locals are buying lately, among them California Poetry (the city’s 2008 One Book, One City pick), The Wentworths by local author Katie Arnoldi, and All for a Few Perfect Waves by David Rensin. Read more here.
On my nightstand
“At the moment I’m re-reading ‘No Matter How Loud I Shout‘ by Edward Humes. It is an account of a year in the life of the juvenile court system in LA. It is beautifully written, with righteous anger, honesty and an insight that few have a handle on. It is both scary and uplifting on [...]
What I’m reading
“I’ve just read Ray Bradbury’s Farewell Summer, the 50+-years-later sequel to Dandelion Wine, and it feels like I’m drunk.” — Cory Doctorow, at BoingBoing.
What I’m Reading
“For about a year, I’ve been catching up on the novels I never got to in college…,” says UC Berkeley writing and grammar guru Steve Tollefson. “Almost every one of these books has been a joy to read: Wallace Stegner’s “The Big Rock Candy Mountain,” Frank Norris’s “The Octopus,” Sinclair Lewis’s “Babbitt,” Jack London’s [...]
What I’m Reading
“Far too many courses and books on Creative Writing teach by negative example: they only tell us what not to do. This is what makes Prose’s master class in fiction so valuable. She provides myriad examples from great classic novels of what fiction looks like when it is done incredibly, perfectly, wonderfully right. Her [...]
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, 