Posts Tagged “LA Times”
David Ulin interview
by Morgan on June 18, 2011
I meet David at the entrance to the La Brea Tar Pits on a beautiful Friday morning. April first. Sun’s shining, tar’s smelling like tar, and watching people scuttle around, I’m reminded, for the millionth time, how lovely it is (…)
David Ulin changed my life (no, for real)
by Morgan on June 13, 2011
On April 1st, I interviewed David Ulin, book critic for the LA Times. It’s June now, and the reason I haven’t posted the interview is twofold . One, I wanted to spend some time digesting the ideas in The Lost (…)
LA Times Festival of Books
by Morgan on May 2, 2011
Admittedly, I only made it to the festival on Saturday, despite reserving a full weekend’s worth of panel tickets, and for this I’d like to formally blame something called a “Moscow mule. ” Let’s not talk about it. USC is (…)
Colors Insulting to Nature
by Morgan on April 7, 2011
The LA Times is wondering about people’s favorite books about or based in Los Angeles. Weirdly (I think), when prompted by their tweet, the first book that came to mind when I thought “LA book” was Cintra Wilson’s insane, hysterical, wet (…)
The Pale King reading group
by Morgan on April 3, 2011
I am alive, I’ve just been in Vegas. So listen, I have some fun things to post in the next couple days (an indictment of what I’m calling the “ELLE memoir,” and an interview with the LA Times book critic, (…)
Save six minutes
by Morgan on December 26, 2010
and skip Alex Pham’s front-page piece in the LA Times today, Authors writing off publishers. …unless you weren’t aware that authors retain a greater stake in their own works (and higher royalties) if they self-publish, though they forfeit the sales-bolstering (…)