I dropped in on Tyson Cornell of Rare Bird Lit at his dope Columboesque office downtown yesterday. I wanted to chat with him because Tyson is a literary gangster in Los Angeles, seriously one of maybe four people I know who’s (…)
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I’m going to the desert this weekend with the boyfriend and two badass photographers. Let’s call it an educational field trip: I’m going to be scoping and note-taking for my top-secret writing project. Okay, for my novel. Unrelated (I swear): (…)
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By this point, if you aren’t ready to stab yourself with a poisoned letter opener if you see one more Year’s Best Books roundup…you’re probably not me. But it’s tradition, so. Vol. 1 Brooklyn’s list is pretty interesting (mad kudos (…)
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