Booking The Weekend For Our Biggest Literary Event     Visting the country’s biggest book fair, the L.A. Times Festival of Books at UCLA, is like one’s attitude ... Continue Reading →

MORE THAN FAIR — FESTIVAL OF BOOKS If one needs a welcoming indication of Spring, other than pretty nature photos on one’s calendar or the insane, chattering mockingbirds ... Continue Reading →

How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter To The Greatest Teen Magazine Of All Time By Kara Jesella and Marisa MeltzerFaber And Faber, Inc.Paperback, $18.00   The WWW was still ... Continue Reading →

FARLEY GRANGER/1009 ONE-TIME SCREEN IDOL FARLEY GRANGER TELLS OF BISEXUAL PAST  In Farley Granger's newly published memoir ''Include Me Out,'' the former ... Continue Reading →

SANDLER’S LISTS Ellen Sandler could fairly be billed as the Dalai Lama of television writing.  It is not clear if she wears orange robes when writing.  (There is a ... Continue Reading →

MAMA-PAPA COMING FOR YOU In the vast reaches of the Internet, there is a sex-vixen-pinup space creature named Izabael who travels from comic convention to comic convention, seducing ... Continue Reading →

ARCHITECTURE OF HAPPINESS As I write this review, I am house-sitting for a friend in a suburb-to-remain-unnamed.  Despite the house’s possession of sturdy walls, a sound ... Continue Reading →

FOR THOSE IN NEED The Mammoth book of Best New Erotica volume six is one to read in bed.  Technically, this is the 13th edition of the book, as earlier compilations were individually ... Continue Reading →