A Da Vinci-esque tableau of former LA Times books editors and book festival organizers. #latfestivalofbooks

Final selfie of the year. (It was a tough year.)

I'm gonna tell my kids this was the party scene from Eyes Wide Shut

Mexico.

I'll bet insurance won't cover this, either.

(From "A Foundry Gone" by @brendanconstantine.bsky.social)

Ouray isn't impressed with my spending on Small Business Caturday.

Hit up The Writer's Block to do my joyous part for Small Business Saturday!

Trump's transition team vetting Cabinet appointees ...

Helping thwart Ancient Orange and his Project 2025 goon squad.

Unlike you, I get my news from a reliable source.

"As if every day isn't International Cat Day."
-- Ouray, in repose

David Ulin, Hari Kunzru, and Maggie Nelson talk about being "undone" by the act of writing. #latfob

Just started Tricia Romano’s great Village Voice history. But even such a huge excavation has gaps. Index doesn’t mention one of my very fave VV writers, Mim Udovitch. Luckily, this ancient folder of her stories I clipped from the paper somehow survived 30 years. Reading it with the book. So good.

These two have a similar prodding effect on me.

Some years ago Brent Holmes and I put together a charticle about National Novel Writing Month for Desert Companion magazine.

Saturday at 10:30 at the Las Vegas Book Festival I'll interview Kim Foster about her new book, The Meth Lunches, and the intersections of food, poverty, addiction, and mental health. Come for the awkward Dickensheetsian questioning, stay for Kim's thoughtful, eye-opening, nourishing answers.