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News

Daily Breeze
Downtown News
LA Daily News
Los Angeles Times . Times Book Review.
Orange County Register
Portland Oregonian
Sacramento Bee
San Diego Union-Tribune
San Francisco Chronicle . Books.
San Jose Mercury News
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Seattle Times


Magazines

Asian Week
Bark
The Believer
City Beat
Edutopia
Dwell
JPG
LA Inside
LA Weekly
Los Angeles Magazine
Make
Ms Magazine
ReadyMade
New West
Salon
San Diego Reader
San Francisco
Sierra
Slate
Sunset
Wired


California Politics & Public Policy

The California Channel
California demographics
League of Women Voters of California
Political Pulse
Rough & Tumble
Dan Weintraub columns and his weblog


On Media

AlterNet.org
Bob Baker’s Newsthinking
California First Amendment Coalition
Fishbowl L.A.
Huffinton Post
I Want Media
Kausfiles
LAObserved.com
Los Angeles Press Club
LA Voice
Online Journalism Review


Literary Radio and more

Cover to Cover, KPFA (SF)
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, KUCI-FM (Orange County)
Kitty Felde, KPCC (Southern California)
Fran Halpern, KCLU (Ventura/Santa Barbara)
Michael Krasny, KQED (Bay Area)
Larry Mantle, KPCC
Warren Olney, KCRW at Which Way LA and To the Point
Barbara Obsorn, Deadline LA, KPFK (Southern California)
Ronn Owens, KGO-AM (Bay Area)
publicradiofan.com
Michael Silverblatt’s Bookworm, KCRW
Marcos M. Villatoro, Shelf Life. KPFK (Southern California)
West Coast Live, hosted by Sedge Thomson
Word by Word, hosted by Jordan E. Rosenfeld (Northern California)
Youth Radio

California radio on the web
LA Radio


Literary Journals and publications on books

The Believer (San Mateo)
Black Clock
Bookmarks Magazine (San Mateo)
Bullfight
California Literary Review
Etude, new voices in literary nonfiction
Ink Byte
Margin, a literary journal dedicated to magical realism
Instant City
McSweeneys
The Mosaic Art & Literary Journal
Narrative Magazine
Pages Magazine (San Diego)
Santa Monica Review
Stone Soup (children's)
Tameme
Tiny Lights
Zoetrope: All-Story
Zyzzyva


Literary & Literacy Connect

Alliance of Writers
Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children's Literature (Fresno)
Books not Bars
California Arts Council
and The Next Generation arts groups
California Association of Teachers of English
California Black Arts Alliance
California Center for the Humanities
California Center for the Book, UCLA
California Literacy
California Poets in the Schools
California School Library Association
California State Library
California Writing Project
Children's Literature Council of Southern California (Tarzana)
International Center for Writing and Translation, UC Irvine
The Grotto
Inner Spark
Library links
The Litblog Co-op
National Steinbeck Center
Literary Mama
Marin Poetry Center
Northern California Science Writers Association
Pen Center USA West (Los Angeles)
Poetry Flash
Reading by 9
Readerville
Richard Hugo House
River of Words
The Sacramento Poetry Center
San Francisco Center for the Book
San Francisco Writer's Corp
Sisters in Crime LA
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (Los Angeles)
Southern California Writers Association
The Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives at San Francisco State University
PoetsWest.com
Readerville
Western States Arts Federation
Writegirl
WritersCorps


California Studies

California Historical Society
California Legacy Project
California Mission Studies Association
California Poetry
Center for California Studies
Institute for the Study of the American West
Literature of California


Freedom of expression

The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression
First Amendment Project
The Freedom to Read Foundation


Reference desk

24/7 program, connect with a reference librarian at any hour
Bay Area Editors' Forum
Book Finder
Booksleuth
Elements of Style
Society for the Preservation of English Language and Literature (SPELL)


Book festivals & events

Event Listings
flavorpill
la.com
Time Out Los Angeles
Time Out San Francisco
Time Out Las Vegas

Book Expo
Book Group Expo
Central Coast Book and Author Festival
Gold Rush Book Fair
Left Coast Crime
Litquake
Long Beach Literary Women
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
Mendocino Coast Writers Conference
Santa Barbara Writers' Conference
Santa Barbara Book and Author Festival
Southern California Writers’ Conference
Squaw Valley Community of Writers
West Coast Writers Workshops
West Hollywood Book Fair Wordstock


Book groups

Bookbuilders West
Poets & Writers (California branch)
Southern California Children's Booksellers Association
Publishers Association of Los Angeles
Southern California Booksellers Association
Northern California Independent Booksellers Association


Tube

California Connected
Connie Martinson Talks Books
Life & Times, KCET


Writing jobs

Bookbuilders West Job Bank
California Arts Job Board
California Newspaper Publishers Association
California Society of Newspaper Editors
Craig's List
Idealist.org
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Journalism Job Bank (UC Berkeley)
Journalismjobs.com
Media Bistro
National Writers Union (Los Angeles)
National Writers Union (Oakland)
Publisher's Marketplace


Literary Agents

The Association of Author Representatives, not-for-profit organization of agents
everyonewhosanyone
Literary Market Place
Writer’s Market


Etcetera

Arts & Letters Daily
Barry's Art Blog
boing boing
City Stories Project
The Elegant Variation
Daily Candy LA edition.
fray
katecohen.com
LABlogs
laist.com
Library Cats in California
Literary traveler
Rosemarie Kerr
metafilter
sanosurf.com
Story Salon
worldhum.com

 

 
   
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