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Oscar Villalon and the S.F. Chronicle

This is pretty depressing news: San Francisco Chronicle books editor Oscar Villalon is leaving the paper, having taken a buyout. Buyouts have been looming at the paper, which has been suffering from worsening financial woes along with other major dailies throughout the country. Villalon’s last day will be Friday, and it is ...

Fall Roundup from the San Francisco Chronicle

In today’s San Francisco Chronicle Oscar Villalon has a Fall preview, with a decent—and useful—list at the end of forthcoming titles. Of course most of the books features are the “big” titles—like Alice Sebold’s latest, which is destined to be the kind of crap that I mentioned ...