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You Should Be Visiting This Site If You Consider Yourself To Be Literary In Any Sense:

A friend is working over at the Los Angeles Review of Books — or LARB, as I believe it’s lovely referred to. Publications have been slowly phasing out book reviews from their repertoire, and LARB plans to revive the practice and also prove that LA isn’t a literary vacuum (though my god does it sometimes feel like it in this film-centric city).

A snippet from the Review’s “about” section:

The great tradition of the American comprehensive book review, in magazine and newspaper form, has been in its death throes for years. The disappearance of the newspaper book review supplement (papers in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Des Moines, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington and elsewhere have shuttered or radically shrunk theirs) has been accompanied by an explosion of titles in the book market. The net result: twenty times as many titles are published each year than were a quarter century ago, and we have one twentieth of the serious print book reviews. They have been replaced in partial ways by web-based reviews, many of them crowd-sourced or user-generated forums for book talk. There are many excellent websites, too, and numerous blogs, some also of the highest quality (and we hope to have deep linking relationships with the best of them), but very little in the way of full-range book reviewing, covering everything from architecture to YA, from academic monographs to genre fiction, and from the latest publications to classic texts — rigorously edited, carefully curated, deeply informed discourse by experts in their respective fields — has been mounted to take the place of the dwindling comprehensive print reviews.

I’ve read a few of the reviews and they are very, very well-written and impressive when it comes to the analysis of texts along with their relation to the publishing world in general. 

If you are a reader, writer, English/Lit major, or just enjoy enriching your mind, check out the site.

OH AND I ALMOST FORGOT THE MOST IMPORTANT PART!!!!!!!

THE SITE RIGHT NOW IS A TUMBLR (beta version, in other words, while official site is being constructed) SO YOU CAN *FOLLOW* THEM. SO EASY. ZOMG.

Go support <3

http://lareviewofbooks.org

or

Follow them on Twittersaurus, @lareviewofbooks

New Blog!

Hi everyone, 

I’ve begun a photo blog on living in LA. It’s not a photography blog — I want to emphasize that, since I don’t consider myself a photographer — but rather a glimpse of Los Angeles through pictures I take each day. If that’s something that may interest you, follow me:

http://sceneinla.tumblr.com

SCENE IN LA is the name. It will be pics of, well, whatever I feel like taking pictures of while I’m out in the city. Cityscapes, LA inside jokes, candids, style shots, etc.. But maybe people will like it. 

Okidokes that’s all readers, have a nice weekend. XoX