Tananarive Due's Blog

• In Memoriam: The Los Angeles Times Book Review

  July 22, 2008

  •      According to today's electronic edition of Publishers Weekly, a former newspaper staffer says that the Los Angeles Times is planning to discontinue its stand-alone book review section.  Instead, book reviews will run in the Calendar section.       As a former reporter who watched a venerable newspaper slowly shed skin after skin (I still miss Tropic, the Sunday ...
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• Hollywood meets the bookstore

  July 2, 2008

  •      I've wanted to be a writer since I was four--in fact, in my first "book," entitled "Baby Bobby" (Hey, write what you know!), I somehow realized that I needed to write an author bio and synopsis on the back of the book.        "Baby Bobby is a book about a babby.  The auhtor is Tananarive Due."        At least I spelled my name right. ...
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