AN INTERVIEW WITH MARGARET ATWOOD by CAROLYN KELLOGG OF THE LA TIMES

PRESS READER : LA TIMES : NAUGHTY BY NATURE : MARGARET ATWOOD 

She has 2 million followers on Twitter and is in trouble with some for her defense of free speech.  In this article she talks about the future...

ANNE RICE DIES

LA TIMES OBIT ANNE RICE DIES AT 80 

I'm not a huge vampire fan but I loved the book and the film Interview With A Vampire. The film has a scene in it which has informed a particular nightmare I had a few years ago. Anne as a writer of these and other Gothic tales, often played with the grays between bright white good and dark black evil, between animal instinct and human morality.

DEAD MICHEAL JACKSON ON LA TIMES FRONT PAGE ? CANCEL YOUR SUBSRIPTIONS NOW

MICHAEL JACKSON ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE LA TIMES?

CANCEL YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS NOW

by Christine Trzyna C 2009 All Rights Reserved

Last night I bet a Micheal Jackson fanatic one dollar that Liz Taylor would somehow manage to get up front in the funeral of the deceased suspected and assumed (if not convicted) child molester celebrity Micheal Jackson. The guy refused to bet. This morning he gleefully showed me a cover of the LA TIMES that features Jackson's death as a front page story.

Perhaps this is why the LA Times is contemplating its slow death as a big city newspaper.

Soft news instead of hard.

Celebrity instead of the Economy.

Wonder what all the children, whose panties were found strewn around Micheal's secretish Neverland Ranch bedroom, all the children who sucked on "Jesus Juice" wine underage, all the children who were brave enough to admit to parents that they had seen and done things that children ought not, think about this coverage.

If you feel as I do, the only thing left to do is cancel your LA Times Subscription. Sorry LA Times, but using your front cover for Micheal Jackson death coverage is beyond poor taste!

Another guy told me to "be a Christian" and "forgive" Jackson. Let us remind ourselves that it is up to God to judge, forgive, punish or reward. Secondly it is up to his suspected and assumed victims to decide if they want to "forgive." But me, I could never.

A woman told me she felt sorry for his mother. Sorry! I believe LaToya! I believe Joe Jackson, their father, was a monster who beat the children to perform, maybe especially Michael. But the mother, if she was any kind of mother at all, would have taken those children and made a run for it! I get the feeling she hung in there same reason every one else did - for the money!

UCLA and LOS ANGELES TIMES FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

IS APRIL 25th and 26th this year....

I usually go when I'm in town. I find the panel discussions interesting but I wish there were more concentration on individual authors speaking and reading...

Free tickets if you hurry.

LOS ANGELES TIMES - Column One - "PEN OF A POET IN THE FIST OF A FIGHTER" AUGUST KLEINZAHLER

Yesterday's LA Times - front cover- for Monday July 28th, 2008, featured an article of the title above about AUGUST KLEINZAHLER, who shuns academic poets and literary snobs and has been known to get into fist fights in bars when insulted. Literary journals are publishing his work... ABOVE IS THE LINK TO READING THIS LA TIMES ARTICLE byline JOHN GLIONNA on line... I achieved it by Googling LA TIMES and the headline which I already knew because I bought the paper paper (yes I still do once in a while, when I know I will have the time to read it!) The Times is having a hell of a time continuing to publish because of electronic media like this one. I found the front paging of news about a POET especially interesting. What is the strategy in placing news about a poetry renegade on the front page?