Pleasures of a sunny So. Cal Saturday
by We all know that the drought in Southern California is very very serious, but it is hard to argue with a warm, lazy Saturday in …
Tag: Vroman’s
Author Lisa See puts her hands in cement at Vroman’s new Authors Walk of Fame in Pasadena
In celebration of its 120th anniversary the management at Vroman’s bookstore decided to create a new Authors Walk of Fame, similar to the one in …
Farewell, adios and goodbye to bookstores in Pasadena. Another one just closed. Only two left.
[Post originally published 2014] Pasadena has always been a kind of high-culture city. Philharmonic orchestras (until recently we had two), art movie houses, notable 20th …
See photos of the L.A. Festival of Books: C-Span, crime writers, typewriters, fruit hats and–Yes!–real books
I’ll be writing about the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the largest book festival in America on my other blog, Misadventures in E-Publishing, but …