Author: Bookfox

BOOK EXPO America: Interview with NET GALLEY from James Roland on Vimeo. Interviewer: John Fox Videographer: Joel Champagne Video Editor: James Roland

BOOK EXPO America: Day 1, Friday May 30th from RedFence on Vimeo. Interviewer: John Fox Videographer: Joel Champagne Video Editor: James Roland

BOOK EXPO America: Intro – Friday, May 30th from RedFence on Vimeo. Interviewer: John Fox Videographer: Joel Champagne Video Editor: James Roland

So the first day of BookExpo was a flurry of suits and contracts and seminars and banners and free books and guys dressed up like pirates playing live music. As for the pirates, they were promoting a L. Ron Hubbard children/teen series. Don’t worry – I got video. Oh, and my shoulders ache. Free books, […]

The summer issue of Bookforum has a review of Lara Vapnyar’s “Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love.” In these brief, precisely rendered stories, each character’s relationship to food — a lovelorn woman obsessed with vegetables, a man estranged from his wife and in need of all kinds of nourishment, two older women preparing […]

Hello from Puerto Vallarta! I will be here until Wednesday, so please amuse yourself with some of the lovely links in my left hand column, not only my fellow bloggers but the LA lit scene. Also, starting Thursday I will be covering BookExpo, so look back for some video and blog posts.

There’s been a flurry of discussion in the blogosphere lately about what an editor should and should not say about submissions. LROD started with some complaints about VQR editor Ted Genoways, then Howard Junker of ZYZZYVA condemns Ted Genoways, and Ted Genoways responds, and Will Entrekin takes issue with the editor of Fence, the editor […]

BookFox turns the ripe old age of two today. Since blog years are like dog years, that’s pretty old. On this date two years ago I posted a quasi-jealous rant after listening to a reading at Dutton’s with Jonathan Safran Foer, and that spawned this blog that has moved from Blogger to WordPress to Typepad […]

I just started reading Scott Snyder’s “Voodoo Heart,” a wonderful collection of short stories originally published in venues like One-Story, Epoch, and Tin House, and published as a collection in 2006. There’s an interview with him over at Literary Rejections on Display, but I just wanted to excerpt this staggering anecdote: I once sent a […]

I’m lucky enough to have Book Expo America right here in Los Angeles this year, so I’m taking full advantage. I’ll be living in the Los Angeles Convention Center for about four days, eating up all the lovely literary goodness. And, of course, in true BookFox fashion, passing all that lovely information on to you. […]