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Sixty, Sexy, and Successful (And Legally Blind?)
Jessica saw a funny ad in the New Yorker the other day for a book called "Sixty, Sexy, and Successful." We were considering passing it on …
Books Archive
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Fake Book Review: Intimate Frontiers by Albert Hurtado
My latest foray into the California history genre is Albert Hurtado's Intimate Frontiers: Sex, Gender, and Culture in Old California. For a scholarly work, it was …
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Dmitri Nabokov Will Publish – Not Burn – ‘The Original of Laura’
This just in from the New York Times: Vladimir Nabokov’s son, despite his father’s dying wish to the contrary, will publish Nabokov’s last literary effort: a …
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Weekend Agenda: Gore Vidal at the L.A. Times Book Fest; Klub Play; CCRF 5K
Despite a daunting backlog of housework and and other pressing obligations, we've got a very enjoyable weekend mapped out. What could be more fascination than to …
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Jim Crow (And Lack Thereof) in Early 20th Century L.A.
I just read Tyler Cowen’s short book review of Douglas Flamming’s Bound For Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America. It looks like an interesting …
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Don’t Burn “Laura” Dmitri!
The second entry on Arts and Letters Daily this morning reads: Vladimir Nabokov wanted all of his final, unfinished work destroyed. Should his son get out …