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L.A. Times Book Review Section — The Folded In Future

According to Rachel Deahl at PW Sam Zell (and presumably the rest of the Tribune Co. employees with their insane capitalization) has finally had his way with the standalone L.A. Times Book Review section and is folding it into the Calendar Section. (Man, that seems like an insult—couldn’t they at least fold the ...

Steve Wasserman Interview

Critical Mass has a really interesting interview with Steve Wasserman following up on some of the ideas Wasserman wrote about in Goodbye to All That, a long piece on book reviewing he recently published in the Columbia Journalism Review. Both the article and the interview are worth checking out, and although bloggers will ...

Steve Wasserman Back to Reviewing (At Least In Part)

Steve Wasserman, the former book review editor of the L.A. Times and current literary agent, has been appointed book review editor for Truthdig, the 2007 Webby award winner for best political blog. According to GalleyCat he will begin writing a weekly review column in October. Wasserman has excellent taste in literature, ...