What excellent novels.

101 best book club picks for every type of reader From romance and memoirs to mystery and fantasy, here are the 101 best book club picks, according to a survey of more than 200 authors, publishers, journalists and book club fans.

David Foster Wallace‘s INFINITE JEST and @davidulin.bsky.social David L. Ulin‘s SIDEWALKING were both featured in the @latimes.com list of 101 Best Book Club Picks:

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I'm so sorry to hear about this, Wendy.

I'm all in for this.

Why 'The Long Goodbye' Still Matters Robert Altman’s offbeat noir returns to the big screen this weekend for the American Cinematheque’s Noir City festival.

“There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”

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The Common Reader In his forthcoming volume, A Third Commonness, the California Book Club’s April author, Robert Hass, connects the dots between writing and reading.

And yet, that figure on the shore: He is every one of us, isn’t he? He is every hungry reader who has ever undertaken to feel their way toward becoming a writer.

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Breaking: The president has signed an executive order on mail voting. He has no lawful authority to write the rules that govern our elections. He tried a year ago; we sued him; we won. A year later, he has tried again. He can expect the same result. 1/2

Yes, Bantam. Somewhere I have a copy of this edition.

Nonfiction Publishing, Under Threat, Is More Important Than Ever Cuts in publishing and book reviewing imperil the future of narrative nonfiction, and our understanding of the world around us.

“In a would-be autocracy, even a small bookstore—with hundreds of books, classic, recent, and current—is a space of contrary narratives, where truth is recognized as both essential and complicated.”

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Love this poem beyond all reason.

Angels by Denis Johnson.

My favorite part of writing comes when, after numerous near misses and misfires, the right word asserts itself like a puzzle piece fitting into place.

Best short story that I know.

"There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die."

Mother-in-law just left after a five day visit and we have saged the house. How's your morning going?

I call this: Wednesday.

Don't worry everybody, there's a 22 yo in charge of counter terrorism and Kash Patel fired most of the experts in Iranian militant groups.

Dream of Life In The Glorians, Terry Tempest Williams speaks truth among the ruins.

“Believe the words you cannot bear to hear.”

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’Tis the time’s plague, when madmen lead the blind.

This Sunday in Hollywood.

Derek Jeter, Don Mattingly, Ron Hassey, pre-steroids Barry Bonds

Or writing suggestions.

No, Gmail, I don't want an AI Overview.

Lives of the Poet Swirl & Vortex brings Larry Levis back to prominence.

I know
That everything I look out upon will vanish. But I have
Always been astonished at any sort of permanence, & so, Thank You.
Before everything I look out upon has vanished: Thank You.

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I have one that I’m waiting on a second printing to mention.

This is some serial killer shit.

Atlantic City, 1935. My mother's father is in the center.

We have a cover.

I couldn’t agree more.