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Jul.29.2008
(photo: Sarah, Bobby, Michael & Linda - The Mystery Bookstore - Westwood, Calif.)
I’d written my book, in blood it sometimes seemed, but it was all worth it when I received the email from a small publisher informing me that there was a contract in the mail. Ah, I beamed to myself, as I...
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Jun.26.2008
WHAT: Esotouric debuts "Crawling Down Cahuenga: Tom Waits' Los Angeles" bus tour, followed by a group reading and signing of host David Smay's new book "Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones" (Continuum's 33 1/3 series) WHEN: Bus tour is Saturday August 30, noon-4pm, reading follows at...
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Jun.18.2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif, June 18...
The fault is not in ourselves, but in our stars, says Efraim Durg.
Reeling from a huge loss, Durg, the founder of Durgometrics, a hedge fund that specializes in sports betting, blamed "bad celebrity vibes" for the L.A. Lakers humiliating loss in the...
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Apr.25.2008
Citizens using the tools provided by the SaveLAPL website I helped launched have already made a difference in the future of the Los Angeles Public Library: the proposed $1-per-book inter-branch transfer fee has been withdrawn in favor of a nickel increase in daily late fines, and a book buying fund...
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Apr.23.2008
Late May sees the arrival in LA of the BookExpo America publishing industry convention, and if you're a Bukowski fan, you'll want to attend. That's because only BEA badge holders who get on Esotouric's HAUNTS OF A DIRTY OLD MAN:CHARLES BUKOWSKI'S LA tour (departing from Arnie Morton's Steakhouse...
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Apr.14.2008
Dear friends,
I am part of a grassroots collective of passionate library users who are deeply disturbed by the proposed $1-per-book inter-branch loan fee that will be charged beginning July 1st.
We have launched a website at http://www.saveLAPL.org to raise awareness of this issue and the fact...
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Feb.28.2008
I assisted with a preservation campaign seeking to make the East Hollywood bungalow court where Charles Bukowski wrote "Post Office" named an official Historic-Cultural monument, an urgent issue since property investors had evicted the tenants and listed the property on Craigslist as a $1...
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Jan.17.2008
The last two years of my life have been a veritable ride on a carousel with a broken governor. It was a giddy moment when my book, L.A. Heat was published in 2006 by Alyson Books. It was a nightmare when I woke up in the hospital after collapsing in my home in Bermuda. By the time I woke up, I'd...
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Jan.09.2008
During Christmas week, it was my enormous pleasure to orchestrate a pair of bus tours hosted by James Ellroy, in which he led fifty passionate fans all across the Los Angeles of his youth, from actual places he lived and houses he broke into to the scenes of the 1950s crimes that have long obsessed...
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