I’m exhausted after selling my mother-in-law’s two-bedroom house in Los Angeles. She’s downsizing to an assisted-living place and I’ve become aware again of muscles I only vaguely remember from my youth, after packaging nearly everything and cleaning the place. It’s … Continue reading
Ruins, Anyway Walter, Jess (2012). Beautiful Ruins. New York: Harper-Collins The first five pages of this book contain ecstatic reviews from major newspapers and published authors. I have to wonder how Harper-Collins managed that for an undistinguished novel like this. … Continue reading
Horror Stories from Hollywood Hanson, Peter & Herman, Paul Robert (Eds.) (2010) Tales From the Script: 50 Hollywood Screenwriters Share Their Stories. New York: Harper Collins. I’m not a screenwriter or even an aspiring one, but I picked this book up because … Continue reading