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Literary court hound

When I lived in San Francisco, I attended part of Janet Malcolm’s trial re: In the Freud Archives, just as an interested audience member. Cause I’m crazy like that! I’d love now to be at Laura Alpert/JT Leroy’s trial at the hands of the disgruntled film company Antidote (who bought the rights to Sarah and want their money back because the author doesn't exist).

I Can't Believe it's Not Proust!

Recently read: My Lucky Star, a novel that’s part Wodehouse homage, part gay chick lit (a term I have always taken simply to mean “highly derivative of Bridget Jones Diary“), and part House of Barrymore.  It came recommended and while it was lighter than an Olsen twin’s body mass index, it was also wicked funny.  Not for the faint of heart: the unraveling involves a closeted megastar getting caught on film in flagrante delicto with a masseuse costumed as the Oscar statuette.

Is Dewey Decimal future friendly?

Pro: Tomes and Talismans (Giving Battlestar Galactica a run for its money)

Con: Arizona library drops classification