Recent Articles
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The Best Way to Spend September 12th
If I could pick anywhere in the world to be on September 12th, I’d choose the Brooklyn Book Festival.
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Recommended Reading for the First Day of School
As I watched my kids drive away this morning (Kyle is driving them for the first time), I recalled a book I bought for Kelsey when she started preschool, Oh My Baby, Little One by Kathi Appelt, illustrated by Jane Dyer.
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Upcoming Los Angeles Literary Events
Save the jokes about how Los Angeles doesn’t read, we’ve heard them and we know they’re not true. First piece of evidence, the large turnout for last night’s Lit Crawl. Posted are some events you’ll be disappointed if you miss.
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Diary of a Disappointed Book
Diary of a Disappointed Book (click here for video, for some reason I couldn’t get it to download into the post) I found this video (along with other fun posts) on The Casual Optimist, it’s produced by Studiocanoe. Studiocanoe has a selection of lovely videos on a variety of topics (mostly English oriented). Here’s a [...]
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Books Inc. – Palo Alto, CA
A lovely store that Keith found a year ago, finally I was able to drop by. I learned a lot about a stranger, just by reviewing the books he picked for his own personal recommendation table.
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Fun Literary Links
Here are a few things I’ve been looking at that I wanted to share: Penguin Books celebrated it’s 75th Birthday! Whenever I’m reading a classic, I choose the Penguin edition. I like the notes, I like the print, I like the blank pages in front and back where I can take notes (actually could use [...]
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A Video in Kim’s Honor
So Kim’s been off exploring the United Kingdom (but she’s such a good person that she left a bunch of posts for me to put on the blog while she’s gone, so you probably haven’t even missed her). Anyway, among the many cool and literary places she’s visiting is Bath, famous to most of us [...]
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Crown Point Press – San Francisco, CA
Of all the stores I visited in San Francisco, it’s this little corner bookstore that I remember the most.
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BOOK GIVEAWAY
Psst. There’s a book giveaway contest going on over at my Facebook page. If you like getting a free book now and then, or know someone who does, come on over and check it out.
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Discovering Nathan Englander
I just discovered my favorite author of the decade. Maybe of the past several decades. Every once in a while–say every five or ten years–I read a short story that blows me away. I still remember mulling over O’Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi” and Maupassant’s “The Necklace” (the MOST agonizing story ever written) as [...]