CaliforniaAuthors
Imagining the future of bookselling
For the 150th anniversary issue of The Bookseller, the editors asked California author and Boing Boing blogger Cory Doctorow to write a short-short story about the next 150 years in book sales. The...
Media meltdown (continued)
Newspapers are their own worst enemies right now. They’re panicking all over the place and that public desperation just makes them look pathetic.
Today LAObserved brings word that the Orange County...
More summertime books and a few stray notes
The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression names its Book of the Month for June: Claim of Privilege by Barry Siegel, the former LA Times national correspondent who now heads the Litera...
Restoring the heroes? welcome
Sunday is the 64th anniversary of the G.I. Bill, which sent a generation of veterans to college after World War II. CBS Sunday Morning features a segment on the history of the landmark legislation ...
Mmm, that new book smell
Get yours from this round-up of Spring/Summer titles by California authors.
City Lights celebrates the 50th anniversary of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s A Coney Island of the Mind. “With one million copi...