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March 24, 2014
D.J. Palladino Signs with Asahina & Wallace
Noted Santa Barbara journalist D.J. Palladino has joined the A&W family to write a thriller based in his hometown of Santa Barbara.
Full StoryWhere are your books coming from?
How many printed books have you bought during the past year? How many e-books?
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April 8, 2014
Sister Carol Perry: A Practical Faith
"Religious wars and persecutions for religious reasons are wrong, be they the Crusades of the Middle Ages or the jihad of the Muslim extremists today. No one group has a monopoly on truth."
Full StoryJanuary 13, 2014
The Birth of the Cool: Leo Braudy's Memoir of the 1950s
Leo Braudy won’t have to worry about accusations of narcissism.
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January 3, 2014
Leo Braudy on 'Trying To Be Cool'
"To a great extent I am an observer in the book, trying to figure out the world of the 1950s and its mysteries. Maybe I’m like one of those guilty bystanders in the Hitchcock films of the 1950s, who are always getting lured into situations by their own curiosity."
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December 20, 2013
Charles Dennis Explains 'The Magiker'
"My dad never forgot leaving the shtetl in 1919. It was from him that I learned so much about the shtetl life that I describe in The Magiker."
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@leobraudy's #tryingtobecool (http://t.co/ird3GBuc1v) in @latimes (http://t.co/0G1Lgd2yF6) story on the art of memoir @latimesfob.
Featured Book Store
March 28, 2014
A visit to the Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Every independent bookstore in Southern California is unique.
Full StoryMarch 24, 2014
Judge Rules for Harper Collins in e-book dispute
If upheld, how will this ruling, coming after the decision in the Rosetta case, affect authors? Legacy publishers? Digital publishers?
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Booth 954 at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, awaiting our first visitor.
