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in bed with…
Need I remind you of the drill, babies? I post pictures of famous people and then I talk about myself. Shall I tell you why I still identify deeply, so deeply, with this photo by Mark Seliger for...
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Ever wonder what it feels like waiting to hear from your publishers?
Kinda like this… Like Hitchcock is looming over your shoulder. Let me walk you through it. They gave you your break. They alternately praised you and harangued you. Some of it was downright dismal....
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While I’m waiting for the publishers, I’ll just gab…
You know, this thing struck me about blogging recently… It’s made me have more faith in people, not less. I’ve always been the kind of person who tends toward suspicion, even as a child. I remember...
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Welcome to my boudoir, an update — and click on either of the pix to buy the...
Mm hm. That’s pretty much what it looks like and that’s my knee in the bottom of the frame. It’s up under the rafters like Jo’s spot in “Little Woman”, it’s filled with books and a reading chair, and...
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Ms. Lester Regrets (Nothing)! For It’s A Book Club World, After All!
Photo by Slim Aarons, the Kaufmann House, Palm Springs. Caption by an anonymous wit, frequent raconteur, and literary sister… There’s a lot of talk these days about the seismic changes in the...
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The Los Angeles Times: first printing 1881, bombing 1910, biggest circulation...
1881 - 1885 - 1910 – a bomb goes off in the night - 1910 – a crowd gathers - 1910 – the day after - 1910 – inside the presses are buried in rubble - 1910 – cleanup begins - 1926 - 1934 – another...
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