Soft Skull Press

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First Reported May 01 2012 - Updated May 01 2012 - 1 Documents

Review: Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

By There were more than four hundred authors at the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. The participants ranged from Rodney King (whose video taped severe beating twenty years ago by sadistic police officers resulted in a riot that caused over ... [ Published May 01 2012 by High Times ]
First Reported Apr 20 2012 - Updated Apr 20 2012 - 1 Documents

Books: Bestseller written âas a jokeâ

LOS ANGELES — A year ago, Adam Mansbach was an award-winning novelist and aspiring screenwriter wrapping up a two-year teaching job at Rutgers University. That was before his off-colour picture book, Go the F—to Sleep, became an international phenomenon, ... [ Published Apr 20 2012 by Kitchener Record ]
First Reported Apr 10 2012 - Updated Apr 10 2012 - 1 Documents

Our Town Short Story Contest Reminder!

Don’t mind me, I’m just writing to you from my chaotic hutch of doom. We're painting the living room (By which I mean my Significant Other is painting the living room and I'm complaining about the smell.) So everything we own is shoved in one corner of ... [ Published Apr 10 2012 by Chicago Sun-Times ]
First Reported Apr 05 2012 - Updated Apr 05 2012 - 1 Documents

Desperately seeking survival

This article is excerpted from the new anthology from Soft Skull Press. When I was 13, my parents drove us 45 minutes from our home on a rural wooded peninsula to a suburban-mall movie theater to see ?Desperately Seeking Susan.? I wasn’t eating popcorn: ... [ Published Apr 05 2012 by Salon ]

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...of talking and traveling I had to do," said Mansbach, who spent three months last spring and summer doing at least six hours of interviews per day. "If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback. But with this book, there was so much attention that it was impossible for me to be adversely affected by the negative stuff."

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Review: Los Angeles Times Festival of Books [ Published May 01 2012 by High Times ]
Books: Bestseller written âas a jokeâ [ Published Apr 20 2012 by Kitchener Record ]
There's plenty to keep author Adam Mansbach awa... [ Published Apr 18 2012 by San Luis Obispo.com ]
Our Town Short Story Contest Reminder! [ Published Apr 10 2012 by Chicago Sun-Times ]
Desperately seeking survival [ Published Apr 05 2012 by Salon ]
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