Book Expo America: My Friends And Associates   You can learn about a person by what that person does and what that person says. But you can also learn a lot about a journalist ... Continue Reading →

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 →