A few days ago I updated my friend Celeste Fremon on the latest and she, in kind, updated the rest of the L.A. community who frequent her well-worth-reading web presence. Celeste is a damn fine journalist, scholar, and journalism instructor and is a recognized, passionate advocate for social justice, so her interest in my story should come as no surprise [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Times’
Witness L.A. Pays Witness Again
Posted: November 30, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Las Vegas Sun, Le Journaliste ColoreTags: books, Celeste Fremon, David Ulin, Joseph Mailander, Las Vegas Sun, Los Angeles Times, New Homeless, Rodger Jacobs, Street Hassle, Witness L.A., writers, writing
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Mailander on Ulin
Posted: June 19, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Hideous Music and the Sound of Many ShotgunsTags: books, David Ulin, Joseph Mailander, Los Angeles Times, reading, writers, writing
I held off on expressing any commentary on David Ulin’s step-down as editor of the L.A. Times’ greatly-diminished Book Review because I was certain that our friend Joseph Mailander would have a say-so on the subject. He did not disappoint: Of interest: the presumption is made by editors all across town, even ones that [...]
Fun with the L.A. Times
Posted: November 12, 2009 by Rodger Jacobs in Pop MattersTags: Los Angeles Times, Pop Matters, Rudy Wurlitzer, Sam Adams
It’s not exactly plagiarism but a freelancer writing in the L.A. Times online this week – and in the upcoming November 15 fishwrap edition — certainly “borrows” from me a bit. Read Once Venerable L.A. Times Borrows From Pop Matters.
One Day Ahead of Schedule
Posted: August 15, 2009 by Rodger Jacobs in Pop MattersTags: Ask the Dust, books, Day of the Locust, Deconstruction Zone, Dorothy B. Hughes, Fante, Humphrey Bogart, In a Lonely Place, literature, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathanael West, Nicholas Ray, Pop Matters, Richard Rayner, writers, writing
Whew! That was a relief. I finished my next Deconstruction Zone column for Pop Matters one day ahead of time, which means I can get to the first draft of my next Roy Orbison Radio script one day sooner than expected and start fretting over my September deadline for Pop Matters one day sooner than [...]
Sunday Literary Supplement: The Wednesday Special Edition
Posted: August 11, 2009 by Rodger Jacobs in Sunday Literary SupplementTags: books, David Ulin, Joseph Mailander, Los Angeles Times, Mario Bellatin, New York Times, Shiki Nagaoka, The lost art of reading, writers, writing
Here’s a piece from the Tuesday 08/11 edition of The New York Times that you absolutely must read if you care a whit about contemporary fiction: A few years ago the Mexican novelist Mario Bellatin attended one of those literary conferences here where writers are asked to talk about their own favorites. Unwilling to make [...]
