This news is actually a week old, and for many, might not even have become news. Dutton’s Brentwood is a bookstore on San Vincente Boulevard in Los Angeles, and has become something of a landmark. The first time I met Janet Fitch was at Dutton’s, at what I think I recall was her first reading, […]
Hello. This is Greg Rock. Third and last to arrive in the string of guest bloggers for the John Fox. I am a fiction writer and screenwriter based in Los Angeles. The last book I bought was The Collected Stories: by Leonard Michaels. Discovering Leonard Michaels, after he was first recommended by a writing professor, […]
Hi. I’m the second blogger that BookFox has asked to fill-in while he is traveling this summer. And I’m a poet. At my site, Radical Nonsense, a reader will not find much of my own poetry, but however they will find my thoughts on just about anything literary, tea or any intellectual pursuit. While I […]
Greetings from Chile, where I recently visited the house of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. I figured since I was here I might as well visit whatever literary attractions there are in Chile, and Neruda is the main draw. (I´ve been reading Roberto Bolano as well, but I´ll post on that later.) I was introduced […]
Hello. I’m Will Entrekin. Pleased to see ya, as it were. My esteemed colleague and hopefully classmate-soon-to-be, the illustrious Mister Fox, asked me a little bit ago if I would contribute to his blog while he is in warmer climes. Though, technically, John and I are both in and around Los Angeles at this point, […]
Okay, last post before I get out of the country, seriously. Over at Emerging Writers Network, Dan has a roundtable with numerous bloggers, and I am one of the interviewees. Always interesting to hear what your fellow bloggers say about their site, and also nice to see such attention being paid to the emerging blogger […]
Hello loyal BookFox readers, I’m taking off to South America with Mrs. BookFox for six weeks, until August 9th. Going to visit Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Why? Because neither of us has been there, no other reason. The vacation time is the blessed union of when a teacher marries another teacher. Since I’ll be […]
The latest development in the furor over Salman Rushdie’s knighting is that the Pakistani clerics awarded Osama Bin Laden a title as well: A group of hardline Pakistani Muslim clerics said on Thursday they had bestowed a religious title on Osama bin Laden in response to a British knighthood for author Salman Rushdie. The Pakistan […]
Congratulations to Peter Orner for winning the VCU First Novelist Award for The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo.
From the San Francisco Gate comes a brief article offering a quote from Pakistan’s religious affairs minister: “If someone exploded a bomb on [Salman Rushdie’s] body, he would be right to do so unless the British government apologizes and withdraws the ‘sir’ title.” The International Herald Tribune reports that the protests and burning of effigies […]
