BOOKCLUB NEWS & LINKS
| Jan 2010 |
 LA Times, January 20,2010
ROBERT B. PARKER DIES AT 77; BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF 'SPENSER' PRIVATE-EYE NOVELS
Robert B. Parker, the best-selling author whose long-running "Spenser" private-eye novels updated the genre of hard-boiled detective fiction in the 1970s, has died. He was 77.
Parker died Monday of a heart attack at his home in Cambridge, Mass., said his longtime literary agent, Helen Brann.
"He was at his desk, working on a new book — a new Spenser," Brann said.
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| Dec 2009 |
Starting Tuesday, December 8, our book club will be meeting at 7:30 PM every SECOND TUESDAY of each month at the Canoga Park BORDERS Books Store, located on the northeast corner of Canoga Avenue and Victory Boulevard.
 LA Times, December 10, 2009
THE PLOT THICKENS OVER AUTHOR'S ESTATE
Swedish crime novelist Stieg Larsson left no will when he died five years ago, so everything passed to his father and brother. His companion of 30 years, whom he never married, got nothing.
 LA Times, December 17, 2009
CLOSING IN ON THE LETTER Z
A talk with Sue Grafton about her latest Kinsey Millhone mystery, 'U Is for Undertow.' For the series' first half, people bet that she couldn't finish it. 'Now,' she says, 'they are rooting for me.' |
Apr
2009 |
LA TIMES FESTIVAL OF BOOKS
Dates:
Saturday, April 25,
10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Sunday, April 26,
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Tickets:
Tickets are free! Tickets will be available on April 19 through ticketmaster.com. They are needed for indoor panels and speaker sessions. More...
Parking:
Parking on the UCLA campus is $9. Free shuttle bus services will connect the outlying UCLA parking lots with the main festival entrances.
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| May 2009 |
A NOVEL LOOK AT NORTH KOREA — In January of 2008 we read a novel by James Church about the most interesting Inspector O, a north Korean detective. Written on the LA Times, May 2 front page a very interesting article about Inspector O and his creator, James Church. It's an interesting read. |
Jan
2009 |
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Jan
2009 |
MYSTERY BOOK CLUB NOW ON BARNES & NOBLE LOCAL STORE WEBSITE: The Promenade Barnes & Noble website now shows our Mystery Book Club schedule online. Gotta appreciate that! Thanks for getting us on the site, Barnsie Bear! WH BARNES & NOBLE WEBSITE |
Jan
2009 |
LA Times — Author Appreciation (in memoriam)
UNDER ANY NAME DONALD WESTLAKE WAS A GRANDMASTER
His natural ability to observe human behavior and to follow an idea, no matter how bizarre, through to its proper, rightful finish echoed the vision of an architect, the array of moves available only to a chess grandmaster. That he could accomplish all this beneath the veneer of elegant mischief and make it look effortless in the process is all the more astonishing.
LA Times — Authors & Ideas
HOLLYWOOD RARELY DID DONALD WESTLAKE JUSTICE
One of the enigmas in the long and rich career of Donald E. Westlake was that this author of more than 100 novels, many of them popular, accessible and plot-driven works of crime fiction, both grim and comic, received such a spotty handling by Hollywood. |
May
2008 |
SUSAN BRAUN, our esteemed leader for the Mystery Book Club at the Barnes & Noble in the Woodland Hills Promenade, who has led a mystery book club at neighborhood book stores for many, many years, has removed to Washington State. Our May meeting with her was our last. While she had given us plenty of notice of the plans she and her husband had made to buy a home in the northwest it still came as a shock to us all. She has told us that she has already hooked up with a new book club up there and will continue to stay connected to us when she returns to southern California to visit family and electronically. |
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