E.L. Doctorow

UC Irvine MFA Writers: Your Clip-and-Save Review

The end of the academic year approaches, which finids Mr. Bib looking forward to the arrival of annual literary journals sponsored by local colleges and universities. Alas, The Ear, Irvine Valley College's magazine is long gone as, it appears, is Orange Coast Review, out of OCC. Still UC Riverside p ... More >>

OC Bookly: OC Bookstores, Part I--You Should See What It's Like in There

The Bibliofella (see photo, right) never passes up even the least opportunity to invoke his earliest literary heroes, writers whose work helped transform the goofy adolescent I once was into, well, the adult goof I am today, a person for whom the truth-telling of novels, short stories, essays and po ... More >>

Syncopation Nation

Ragfest

Future Perfect

The vision of Arthur Millers American Clock

Imagining Orange County

Its not the O.C., not Disneyland, not Newport. Eight writers imagine the real place you call home

Cleveland Rocked

Vote for Change and Vote Often

Of Ants and Men

Big Old Jews

Once upon a time, literary giants bestrode the Earth