Notable Online: 8/9–8/15
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...moreMonday 2/6: Len Vlahos presents Life in a Fishbowl and Leah Thomas presents Nowhere Near You. 6:30 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. Greg Palast discusses and signs The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: A Tale of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Tuesday 2/7: Greyson Bryan discusses and signs Big: Beginnings. 7 p.m. […]
...more[O]ne of the benefits of not having studied literature in a traditional sense is that my relationship with the canon is not, um, a tight relationship, not an embrace. Daniel Alarcòn sits down with Los Angeles Review of Books Editor in Chief Tom Lutz for a deep interview on Alarcòn’s education, writing, and radio project.
...moreTom Lutz’s recent essay for the LA Review of Books discusses the missing generation of journalists, the layoffs that have forced out some of the greatest book reviewers from their staff positions on newspaper mastheads and the diminishing of the book review from newspapers at large. Lutz recently added seasoned book reviewer columnists to LARB, […]
...moreTom Lutz at the Los Angeles Review of Books discusses Elizabeth Gumport’s essay in n+1 called “Against Reviews.” Lutz writes “Taste cultures do have something to do with circles of intimates, and the explosion of book clubs in recent years is testimony to a general desire for, if not an orgy, at least something more […]
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