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The LA Weekly's recurring Weekly Literary Supplement has a cover piece on eighteeen local independent presses, sidebars on Tosh Berman’s TamTam Books, Feral House, Tsehai Publishers and Josh Kun writing about 826LA, plus excerpts from Ben Stiller's Looking at Los Angeles and Joy Nicholson’s Road to Esmeralda. There's also an interview with Judith Regan about her pending move to L.A. (in January at the earliest), by Brendan Bernhard.

Also in the Weekly: Robert Greene reports on the ethics of Villaraigosa's transition fund, Erin Aubry Kaplan finds unhealed riot scars on South Vermont, and Marc Cooper says of Gary Indiana's new book about the governor, "we don’t learn anything new about Schwarzenegger — or how he got elected, or what it really meant or didn’t mean — because Indiana, primarily a novelist, does no independent reporting and very little new thinking."