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DAY ONE<\/h3>\n

6:15 A.M.<\/strong> After the heat wave of late September, Los Angeles is experiencing a cold and rainy snap. I\u2019m discovering that my new apartment, which is big enough for lots of books, is also drafty and uninsulated in the special way of LA buildings from the 1920s. So when I wake up, staying in bed seems like a very good idea; I read about eighty pages of Antonya Nelson\u2019s Bound<\/a><\/em> before forcing myself up, into the day. I wasn\u2019t sure about the book at first\u2014it\u2019s a little slow to start\u2014but I was very sorry to have to put it down. I leave it on my bedside table.<\/p>\n

9:00 A.M.<\/strong> I\u2019m up and blogging about a poetry festival I won\u2019t go to, because it\u2019s tomorrow, and three thousand miles away.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>11:00 A.M.<\/strong> I get an invitation to moderate a conversation between Dennis Lehane and Tom Franklin. Hell, yes! I\u2019ve moderated panels and done some onstage interviews\u2014Richard Russo, James Ellroy, John Waters\u2014and what I love is the possibility for serendipity and detour, the moment that could only have evolved from that particular strand of conversation. I saw Lehane at the Brooklyn Book Festival; he\u2019s smart and funny onstage, fast. And I liked the beginning of Tom Franklin\u2019s book, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter<\/a><\/em>, which I stopped reading because someone else was reviewing it. My first thought is all the reading I\u2019ll get to do to prep for the discussion. My second thought is, What will I wear? Because scooting into a high director\u2019s chair in a dress can be tricky.<\/p>\n

\"\"6:00 P.M.<\/strong> After several hours at the office, I head to Book Soup<\/a> to see Ben Greenman read from Celebrity Chekhov<\/em>. Book Soup is one of LA\u2019s major independent bookstores, right on the Sunset Strip, with bookshelves crammed under high ceilings and a robust selection of literary fiction and art\/film books; they don’t waste much room on pap. It also has a strange, L-shaped reading area. The author stands in a corner, with ten chairs in front of him, in five rows of two; off to his right, a similar setup. Ben does fine; no celebrities have shown up to protest the Chekhovian inner lives he\u2019s given them. Afterward I try to prove to him that LA is not weird and drag him to Musso & Frank for a drink. In the spirit of his book, we riff on rock-star corollaries of contemporary writers: William T. Vollmann = Sonic Youth, David Foster Wallace = Kurt Cobain. Ben isn\u2019t satisfied with my Bono counterpart, Dave Eggers. Suggestions are welcome. <\/p>\n

DAY TWO<\/h3>\n

3:40 A.M.<\/strong> Alarm #1 goes off.<\/p>\n

3:45 A.M.<\/strong> Alarm #2 goes off.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Happy Nobel Prize in Literature day! It\u2019s so early my body hurts. I drag myself into the living room: couch, laptop, streaming from Sweden. The tech is way better this year than last year. The new laureate is, as everyone now knows, Mario Vargas Llosa, who I haven\u2019t read but whose name I at least recognize. I spend the predawn hours researching him\u2014significant, yes, problematic, also yes\u2014so I can write a newsy story. There\u2019s a long profile of him from 1997 in the LA Times<\/em> archives. It\u2019s a great piece, but it throws two things about newspapers into sad relief: how few stories our international reporters get to write about cultural figures now, and how little space there is for all stories today. The Vargas Llosa piece is twice as long as the features I write. I have plenty of time to contemplate this, because after the sun is up, I discover that someone else<\/a> is writing the Nobel story after all.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>11:00 A.M.<\/strong> Our newsroom is made up of vast rows of desks under bright lights, like those in All the President\u2019s Men<\/em> and The Wire<\/em>. In Inventing LA: The Chandlers and Their Times<\/a><\/em> (the book accompanied a PBS documentary<\/a>) former LA Times<\/em> staffer Bill Boyarsky\u2014who admirably gave police chief Daryl Gates hell in the paper\u2019s pages\u2014describes the evolution of the paper, including its significant ambitions during the sixties and seventies. The furniture and typing machines have changed, but the architecture remains the same. Tour groups come through\u2014mostly teenagers and retirees\u2014to look at journalists in action, which can\u2019t be all that exciting. The one exception is the test kitchen, which has a big glass window overlooking sleek new counters, large stoves and white-jacketed chefs. The book section, where I sit, is between the test kitchen and the elevators, so the tour groups bunch up nearby. They whisper about our fantastic stacks of books with envy and wonder (at least, that what I\u2019d like to think they\u2019re whispering).<\/p>\n

6:00 P.M.<\/strong> I head to the LA County Museum of Art<\/a> for a hybrid performance, part of the Angel City Jazz Festival. Images by Ed Ruscha, music by Nels Cline, and poetry by David Breskin. Breskin uses a form called a ghazal, which is new to me, and for my taste it\u2019s a little too rhythmic and rhyme-y. Or at least, it is in part one; by part two, I\u2019m struggling to stay awake. But I am certain that Cline\u2019s music is terrific.<\/p>\n

DAY THREE<\/h3>\n

\"\"6:00 A.M.<\/strong> Yikes, another Nobel to another literary figure. The Peace Prize has been awarded to Chinese writer and reform advocate Liu Xiaobo<\/a>\u2014I hope this means he\u2019ll get out of prison sooner, not later. Blogging ensues.<\/p>\n

11:00 A.M.<\/strong> Press preview at the Huntington Library<\/a>. Henry Huntington leveraged businesses in trains, real estate, and utilities to become one of Southern California\u2019s earliest tycoons. Later in his life, not necessarily in this order, he retired, collected rare books, and married Arabella, an art lover who was the richest woman in America (and also his uncle\u2019s widow). Their home and estate in San Marino, south of Pasadena, is now the Huntington Library, Art Gallery, and Botanical Garden. It\u2019s hard to imagine, wandering through it, what it was like to live in the house and to own so much land. Huntington built his library to house a collection that includes a Gutenberg Bible and a very early complete, gorgeously illuminated manuscript of Chaucer\u2019s The Canterbury Tales<\/em>, both of which are on display.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Which makes the preview interesting: It\u2019s the unveiling of a new Charles Bukowski exhibit<\/a> just down the hall.<\/p>\n

The not-so-staid-after-all Huntington has been acquiring the papers of twentieth-century writers: Its collection now includes Christopher Isherwood, Jack London, W. H. Auden, and Octavia Butler.<\/p>\n

I have mixed feelings about Bukowski, but how I feel isn\u2019t what matters when I meet Linda Lee Bukowski, his widow. The event had mostly wound down: The ham-on-rye sandwiches, set outside in the returned fall heat, had been snapped up by other journalists. Linda stood inside the lobby, talking to two Huntington staffers, one of whom vouched for me as I approached, saying I was from the LA Times<\/em>. Linda responded with a wry comment about my former editor there, David L. Ulin.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because Ulin wrote<\/a> in the Times<\/em> that Bukowski was \u201ca hit-or-miss talent, capable of his own brand of small epiphany but often stultifyingly banal.\u201d As far as I know, Ulin\u2019s opinion hasn\u2019t changed, but I try to tell Linda that if she met him, she\u2019d like him. Diminutive and with delicate bone structure, she bounces energetically and raises her fists. \u201cMaybe after I give him a punch in the nose,\u201d she laughs.<\/p>\n

Carolyn Kellogg is a staff writer at the<\/em> Los Angeles Times. Check back tomorrow for the second installment of Kellogg\u2019s culture diary.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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