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    Dec 1, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  1. Giving the gift of literature

    They're meaningful, beautiful, portable, and, by the standards of modern gift giving, appealingly inexpensive. They also ship and wrap easily, and allow me to put my money where my heart is: art, ideas and the written word. So why did I hesitate for so long to give books as gifts? For the same reasons, I'm guessing, that a lot of book-lovers refrain. The pitfalls, from giving a book to someone who already has it, to giving a book a to someone who hates it unconditionally, are considerable.
    They're meaningful, beautiful, portable, and, by the standards of modern gift giving, appealingly inexpensive. They also ship and wrap easily, and allow me to put my money where my heart is: art, ideas and the written word. So why did I hesitate for so...

    Tags: Life of Pi (movie), Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (movie), Amazon.com Inc.

    2. Nov 29, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Joe Biden: Costco-shopper-in-chief

    Vice President Joe Biden appeared at the grand opening of Washington, D.C.’s first Costco Thursday morning, meeting with co-founder Jim Sinegal and CEO Craig Jelinek and most importantly, searching for pies.
    Vice President Joe Biden appeared at the grand opening of Washington, D.C.’s first Costco Thursday morning, meeting with co-founder Jim Sinegal and CEO Craig Jelinek and most importantly, searching for pies. Biden, who re-activated his Costco...

    Tags: Pies and Tarts, Books and Magazines, Fiscal Cliff, Joe Biden, Barack Obama

    3. Jan 22, 2013 |Column| Allentown Morning Call

  3. In the Kindle era, a bookstore hangs on

    A long time ago, some poor writer took on the task of novelizing the screenplay of the Burt Reynolds-Dyan Cannon private eye movie "Shamus," filmed in a Hollywood age when leading men had chest hair and big mustaches instead of sallow vampire skin and infection-green eyes.
    A long time ago, some poor writer took on the task of novelizing the screenplay of the Burt Reynolds-Dyan Cannon private eye movie "Shamus," filmed in a Hollywood age when leading men had chest hair and big mustaches instead of sallow vampire skin and...

    Tags: Literature, Arts and Culture, Small Businesses, Books and Magazines, Burt Reynolds

    4. Jan 15, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. A little Latino bookstore in Palm Springs says adios

    The last little Latino bookstore in downtown Palm Springs is in its last days.
    The last little Latino bookstore in downtown Palm Springs is in its last days. Until recently things were going pretty well for the owners, Luciano Ramirez, a retired teacher and school administrator, and his wife, Tonia.When they opened Latino Books...

    Tags: Books and Magazines, Nora Roberts, Services and Shopping

    5. Jan 13, 2013 |Column| Daily American

  5. Echoes From The Past

    The first black-and-white Zenith television set arrived at our Berlin area farm home in 1952 during my preschool years. 
    The first black-and-white Zenith television set arrived at our Berlin area farm home in 1952 during my preschool years.    In the early 1950s we were fortunate if we had two or three stations to choose from and along with Leave it to Beaver, Howdy...

    Tags: Dale Evans, News Media, Entertainment, Books and Magazines, Roy Rogers

    6. Jan 4, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  6. Booksellers' catch-22

    If you've ever walked into a Barnes & Noble, you have no doubt noticed the new releases pyramid front and center.
    If you've ever walked into a Barnes & Noble, you have no doubt noticed the new releases pyramid front and center. If a book is in the news or written by a celebrity author, you will find it in this display. I always give it a quick circle and often...

    Tags: Books and Magazines, Douglas Adams, Magnificent Mile, Joseph Heller, Services and Shopping

    7. Jan 11, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Winter book preview

    Looking ahead to books in 2013 is a little like predicting the Los Angeles weather: sunny, pleasant, better than average. The fiction fields are fertile, the nonfiction skies clear and the young adult books are fresh like spring rain.
    Looking ahead to books in 2013 is a little like predicting the Los Angeles weather: sunny, pleasant, better than average. The fiction fields are fertile, the nonfiction skies clear and the young adult books are fresh like spring rain. We'll see new...

    Tags: The Reluctant Fundamentalist (movie), Literature, Orson Scott Card, World War Z (movie), Foods and Beverages

    8. Dec 18, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Penguin settles in e-book price fixing case

    Penguin has settled with the Department of Justice in the e-book price-fixing case brought against Apple and five publishers this year. Three of the other publishers involved &38212; Hachette, Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins — have already agreed...

    Tags: Books and Magazines, Prices, Services and Shopping, European Union, Media Industry

    9. Jan 11, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Has the e-book bubble burst?

    I like Nicholas Carr. His 2008 Atlantic cover story <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/">&ldquo;Is Google Making Us Stupid?&rdquo;</a> (expanded two years later into <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/27/entertainment/la-ca-carr-shirky-20100627/2">&ldquo;The Shallows,&rdquo;</a> a 2010 Pulitzer finalist) helped catalyze a key idea: the distracting nature of digital culture, which encourages us to read widely but not necessarily deeply, flitting from concept to concept, piece to piece, like mosquitoes on a pond.
    I like Nicholas Carr. His 2008 Atlantic cover story “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” (expanded two years later into “The Shallows,” a 2010 Pulitzer finalist) helped catalyze a key idea: the distracting nature of digital culture, which...

    Tags: Books and Magazines, Arts and Culture, Customs and Tradition, Services and Shopping, Book

    10. Dec 17, 2012 |Story| Daily American

  10. 'Fifty Shades' dominates publishing in 2012

    AP National Writer
    NEW YORK (AP) — The story of 2012 in publishing was the story of "Fifty Shades of Grey," in more ways than one. E L James' erotic trilogy was easily the year's biggest hit, selling more than 35 million copies in the U.S. alone and topping...

    Tags: Amazon Kindle, E-Commerce Industry, U.S. Department of Justice, Amazon.com Inc., Books and Magazines

    11. Dec 1, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  11. First editions: A rare present

    Never mind the Morlocks. For a book lover, the most chilling scene in the 1960 screen adaptation of "The Time Machine" is the one in which the Time Traveler is taken to the decrepit library of the Eloi race. "I can learn all I want about you from books," he exults. But when he picks up one of the neglected tomes, it crumbles to dust in his hands. "Yes," he states ruefully, "they do tell me all about you."
    Never mind the Morlocks. For a book lover, the most chilling scene in the 1960 screen adaptation of "The Time Machine" is the one in which the Time Traveler is taken to the decrepit library of the Eloi race. "I can learn all I want about you from books,"...

    Tags: Stephen King, Entertainment Events, Ernest Hemingway, J.K. Rowling , Jack Kerouac

    12. Jun 1, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  12. A rare encounter

    Tribune columnist
    You are reading this and so I assume that you love books and that you will be attending next weekend's orgy of all things literary, aka Printers Row Lit Fest. It was founded in 1985 by the indomitable Betty Cerf Hill as a means to, as she said, "bring...

    Tags: Books and Magazines, Services and Shopping, Chicago Tribune, Book

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