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Tradition Without Tradition: California Memoirs Without Much Sunshine or Beach Sand Jane and I are both natives of Southern California who now live in large cold-weather metropolitan centers, ( New York City and Chicagoland … I work in Chicago but...

When I read the news these days I feels like the world is coming apart at the seams. Will and I were in Chicago last week when we heard the news of one devastating shooting, and then another. And another. The horrific headlines just kept coming. We...

At BookExpo America, LJ‘s Reviews editors found titles to intrigue, inspire, and set imaginations free   Photo by Kevin Henegan; cover illustration by Alison Seiffer AND THE REAL EDITORS ARE? LJ’s Review editors logged many hours...

Michael Sedano Invisibility, erasure, exclusion, subversion Today’s La Bloga-Tuesday marks two important occasions, one of immense joy, another of bitter frustration, yet… The first brings the joy of the month’s second La Bloga On-line Floricanto...

Jenny Shank In this tour of the Mile High City, novelist Jenny Shank visits the sites, writing groups, organizations, and presses that, despite a down economy, keep her hometown's literary spirit alive in the bootstrapping tradition of those “roaring...