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I soon will be heading out for the Doubletree (I hope the 280 is flowing on this unseasonably warm day). I know I will be seeing some of you. Looking forward to it!

A great intellectual, wit and writer has passed on. The City and the Pillar really was a groundbreaking queer novel; I am particularly partial to his Julian, on the that wonderful if historically doomed emperor. He wrote the screenplay for Ben Hur, too, sneaking in that homo subtext. I am old enough to remember him on TV talk shows, from an era ( Read more... )

I thought this message from Michael Berube might be of interest to some ( Read more... )

Maintenant is a cool little neoDada-inspired lit journal/anthology series. I've published poems in their last two anthologies. It's put out by Three Rooms Press in NY ( Read more... )

The Bodhi Tree Bookstore (West Hollywood) is finally closing as of today. That will be a great loss to Angelenos. In the wayback I spent many pleasant and inspiring hours in the oasis it provided in the City of Lost Angels.http://wehonews.com/z/wehonews/

The paperback edition is handsome! It's great that Scarlet Imprint is making this available in an affordable, yet aesthetically pleasing, edition. Glad to get my contributor's copy yesterday!

Press Release: Barbara Lee Comments on Occupy Oakland ( Read more... )

In light of last night's brutality against Occupy protesters in Oakland, please consider signing this petition for the Oakland municipal government ( Read more... )

It looks like the government will finally end the No otter zone for the southern California coast that was established long ago to satisfy the oil industry and the sea urchin harvesters ( Read more... )