Working through the pile on my desk in advance of this week's BookExpo America at the Downtown Convention Center.

Sascha Rothchild's piece on ending her starter marriage ran in the LA Weekly on March 26. She's already sold the book, "How to Get Divorced by 30," to Plume via Sonia Pabley at Gersh Agency. Universal took the movie rights....Also from Publishers Lunch, Harlan Ellison's long-awaited memoir, "Working Without a Net," goes to Ecco for publication in 2010 and Melissa Gilbert also does the memoir thing for Simon Spotlight Entertainment...Write to the City, "LA’s first writers’ slam on gentrification," takes over Gallery g727 on Spring Street Thursday at 8 pm. Sara Paretsky, Nina Revoyr, Luis Rodriguez, Jervey Tervalon, and Denise Hamilton (among others) are expected....Contributors to "Latinos in Lotusland: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern California Literature," edited by Daniel Olivas, will party Saturday night at the Patricia Correia Gallery in Santa Monica...Photo Friends of the Los Angeles Public Library is screening "Los Angeles Plays Itself," with an appearance by filmmaker Thom Andersen, on June 7....Also, the Drucker Institute will celebrate the receipt of Connie Martinson's archives with a June 16 party at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Carolyn See will make remarks...Jacket Copy's Carolyn Kellogg has been blogging the literary side of her cross-country move. Today: her reading list.

BookExpo comes back to L.A.
All Books and Authors posts

© 2003-2009   •  About LA Observed  •  Email the editor
LA Biz Observed
4:03 PM Fri | CBS and ABC have far bigger fish to fry - namely whether their stations can get back the auto and retail advertising that fell off a cliff in 2009.
Native Intelligence
Jenny Price | Recycling!
Veronique de Turenne | And there's still time to take part!
Phil Wallace | Searching for answers after a third loss this year.
Deanne Stillman | Jihad and cash offers meet American soldiers during the Gulf War, and beyond.
Iris Schneider | After a tough year financially, the Museum of Contemporary Art put on a gala party to celebrate with 1,000 of its closest friends.
Jenny Burman
Thinking more about buying less.
Here in Malibu
Seriously -- turn out the lights.
Sponsors
Jewish Journal logo
The California Wellness Foundation
Playa Vista ad
Blogads

Blogads Los Angeles network

Get RSS Feeds
of LA Observed
LA Observed publishes several Real Simple Syndication feeds for easy scanning of headlines. If you wish to subscribe to a feed, most popular RSS readers will do it for you. You can also enter the web address from the XML button below or click on a specific feed. For more help with RSS, try here or here.




Add to Google