los angeles festival of books 2010

Another Festival of Books has come and gone...I may have more commentary at some point, but I'm going to let photos and my panel coverage for Jacket Copy do the talking for now.

The first panel I covered on Saturday was Rebooting Culture with Ander Monson, Nicholas Carr, and David Shields, moderated by David Ulin..You can read the coverage here.


That afternoon was Carol Burnett...


And on Sunday, I had the pleasure (ahem) of covering Bret Easton Ellis.

sunday short stack

“This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it.” - Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

• Are the Wachowski Brothers adapting Cloud Atlas?!
• 25 Notable Recluses
• This is almost (but not quite) too precious to post: Cute Boys with Cats
• 10 Weird Duets
• When a Bad Movie Has One Incredibly Great Scene
• A recovered survey from 1992 reveals the sex lives of librarians.
• The 10 Most Epic Stage-Dive Fails
• The Creepiest Children's Books Ever
• President Obama has two tickets to that thing you like.
• 10 Songs for English Majors and Other Word Nerds
• I love Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" - more people should talk about it all the time.

people hang on his every word, even the prepositions

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He really is...