On Friday I went to an old friend’s book party. Amy Wilentz has just published a book about California, I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen. The party was at Victor and Annie Navasky‘s on the West Side.
Wilentz welcomed me as I came through the door. She was wearing a Read More
Curb Appeal
In the fourth episode of the second season of Curb Your Enthusiasm , Larry David accuses a (fictitious) HBO president of stealing shrimp from his Chinese takeout-in the middle of a pitch meeting, no less. What chutzpah! This is a stand-in for his actual boss . The bespectacled executive is obviously offended, and Read More
Los Angeles author Bruce Wagner’s new novel, Still Holding , the third in a trilogy that began with I’m Losing You and I’ll Let You Go , arrives cosseted in praise from the literary establishment. “A visionary posing as a farceur,” gushes Salman Rushdie on the back jacket. “Writes like a wizard and knows his Read More
