Interesting story in the Carmel Pine Cone about Jim and Cindy McGillen, a semi-retired TV couple that spent more than $320,000 to host this weekend’s first-ever Carmel Authors and Ideas Festival.
They lined up a collection of top authors to appear. Tickets are $500 each.
“No offense to Toledo, but I was not asking people to [...]
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Book fest weekend in California
Boyle honored
The board of the Santa Barbara Book and Author Festival has chosen novelist T.C. Boyle for the 2007 Ross Macdonald Award, an honor handed out annually to “a California writer whose life work raises the standards of literary excellence.” Boyle will receive the award and give a reading at this year’s festival, the weekend of [...]
Rallying around Jerry Roberts
More than 150 friends turned out this week to roast the former Santa Barbara News-Press editor and and raise money for his legal battle with newspaper owner Wendy McCaw.
Former state Senator Burton took the faux optimistic approach towards the predicament facing Roberts, whom he remembers as a city hall reporter who was always “a [...]
Book fest weekend in California
Boyle honored
The board of the Santa Barbara Book and Author Festival has chosen novelist T.C. Boyle for the 2007 Ross Macdonald Award, an honor handed out annually to “a California writer whose life work raises the standards of literary excellence.” Boyle will receive the award and give a reading at this year’s festival, the weekend of [...]
Rallying around Jerry Roberts
More than 150 friends turned out this week to roast the former Santa Barbara News-Press editor and and raise money for his legal battle with newspaper owner Wendy McCaw.
Former state Senator Burton took the faux optimistic approach towards the predicament facing Roberts, whom he remembers as a city hall reporter who was always “a [...]
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