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Books content on LA Observed.Copyright 2012Fri, 25 May 2012 14:01:10 -0800http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.25http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssWhat Tom Lutz of LA Review of Books reads every dayLos Angeles Review of Books. There are some things he no longer has time for, his morning ritual now includes Google Analytics, and he includes LA Observed prominently in his blog reading. More]]>
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http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/05/what_tom_lutz_of_la_revie.phpBooksTue, 22 May 2012 23:45:55 -0800Taco books are suddenly a growth industryRead up]]>
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http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/05/taco_books_are_suddenly_a.phpBooksSun, 20 May 2012 00:10:48 -0800Author Chip Jacobs and 'The Ascension of Jerry' on KCALJournalist Chip Jacobs' newest book, "The Ascension Of Jerry: Murder, Hitmen and the Making of L.A. Muckraker Jerry Schneiderman," spins out the tale of a truly interesting Los Angeles figure and a bunch of intriguing episodes. It's a murder mystery and more, but nonfiction (despite the interviewer calling it a novel.)
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http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/05/author_chip_jacobs_and_th.phpBooksThu, 17 May 2012 21:50:59 -0800Carlos Fuentes dies in Mexico City at age 83The novelist, called in the New York Times obituary "Mexico’s elegant public intellectual and grand man of letters," died today in Mexico City. Fuentes was "one of the most admired writers in the Spanish-speaking world, a catalyst, along with Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa and Julio Cortazar, of the explosion of Latin American literature in the 1960s and ’70s known as 'El Boom.'"
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http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/05/carlos_fuentes_dies_in_me.phpObituariesTue, 15 May 2012 15:53:40 -0800I'll be hanging at Pasadena's LitFest this afternoonPasadena is throwing its first community-wide book festival all day today at Central Park, just down the street (south) from Old Town Pasadena. I'll be meeting readers and signing some books at the Angel City Press booth from noon to 2 p.m. Stop by and have a chat. LitFest Pasadena, which is free, goes from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/05/ill_be_at_pasadenas_litfe.phpEditor's noteSat, 12 May 2012 10:35:01 -0800Steve Wasserman moves to Yale Press, signs Greil Marcus bookSteve Wasserman, the former longtime books editor at the Los Angeles Times (back in the years when the paper had a Sunday book review section), is giving up the agenting game to become a full-time editor at large for Yale University Press. His first acquisition for Yale is "an intimate history of rock ‘n’ roll" by Greil Marcus.
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http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/05/socal_bestsellers_fifty_s.phpBooksWed, 09 May 2012 10:29:18 -0800LA Times posts books editor opening with a new twist
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http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/05/la_times_posts_books_edit.phpRead the memoTue, 08 May 2012 15:43:04 -0800Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator was 83The creator of "Where the Wild Things Are" and other dark children's fantasy books died Tuesday at a hospital in Danbury, Conn. "Where the Wild Things Are," published in 1963, became one of the bestselling children's books of all time. Here he is with Stephen Colbert.
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http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/05/maurice_sendak_author_and.phpObituariesTue, 08 May 2012 08:26:17 -0800LA Times book editor to leave the paper - no replacement namedJon Thurber, the Los Angeles Times book editor since 2010, is leaving the paper at the end of the summer. He's one of the few remaining 40-year employees. The note from editor Davan Maharaj is silent on what Thurber may be going off to do, or on the future of the books staff. Read the memo inside.
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http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/05/la_times_book_editor_to_l.phpRead the memoMon, 07 May 2012 14:33:06 -0800