Posts Tagged “review”
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 (…)
Radiance
by Morgan on May 18, 2011
Mark Perdue, or as he prefers to think of himself, “Mark Perdue,” used to be a superstar physicist; now he’s a mediocre Berkeley professor losing his acuity to Lyme disease, a “dead weight” of a man floundering around in the (…)
April reading
by Morgan on May 5, 2011
The Silent Land, Graham Joyce (my review, in which I compare it to the Fear Street series, is here) Fear Street No. 32, College Weekend, R.L. Stine (that’s right) All the Time in the World, E.L. Doctorow (Bookslut review here) The (…)
My first Bookslut review
by Morgan on April 23, 2011
It’s about porn.
Andre Dubus III/Joshua Foer/David Ulin
by Morgan on March 16, 2011
I went to Book Soup to hear Andre Dubus III read from Townie last night. Stay tuned for a recap of the evening (link to come), but I’ll preface by saying that Dubus is seriously pleasant. In all honesty, I (…)
Book reviews are getting really bad
by Morgan on March 12, 2011
I’d been thinking about doing a post about the lameness of book reviews these days, when this came on NPR. Behold, Alan Cheuse’s review of The Tiger’s Wife, by Tea Obreht: —– Natalia Stefanovi, the narrator of this stunning first (…)
Regarding reviews/ESPN The Magazine
by Morgan on March 2, 2011
So I’d like to append yesterday’s post with a brief statement of intent. This blog is not a book review blog. I’m actually veering into review territory elsewhere on the internet, but Reading in LA will remain a personal narrative (…)
This Vacant Paradise, Victoria Patterson
by Morgan on March 2, 2011
Have you ever been to Newport Beach? Even if you haven’t, you know what to expect, right? Starting with the popularity of The OC, followed by our continuing obsession with its affluent housewives, we’ve become thoroughly schooled in the clichés (…)
Rare Bird Lit on a Friday morning
by Morgan on February 19, 2011
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 (…)