I moved to LA for the summer two days ago from San Francisco, and so far, this place is about as surreal as everyone told me it’d be. I swear to God I keep seeing Jeff Bridges, and even though my shirt was covered in lint, my gut was sticking out, and I was covered in sweat, my new mechanic asked if I’d been in movies. In honor of my new home (and how awesome and ridiculous everything feels), I will only be linking to book blogs from LA today. Just because I feel like it.
Said Abraham Lincoln, “”So you’re the little lady who wrote the book that started this great war.” It was just Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 200th birthday! Jacket Copy has an excerpt of the beginning of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and some facts about her and the book for you.
The Elegant Variation has tracked down this fascinating old Kingsley Amis interview. On the question of whether he was his protagonist Lucky Jim, “He acts more bravely than I would ever dream of acting in some ways.” (It gets good about a minute in.)
At BookFox, how all the hype around DFW’s The Pale King ruined a good reading of it.
And what with Banksy sponsoring free Mondays at the MOCA for the Art in the Streets exhibit, the LA Review of Books has excerpted the introduction of Slinkachu’s 2008 book of photographs, Little People in the City.
