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Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/20\/a-week-in-culture-carolyn-kellogg-book-reporter-and-blogger\/\">here<\/a> to read the first. <\/em><\/p>\n<h3><div id=\"attachment_6498\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/carolynkellogg1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"314\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6498\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/p><\/div>DAY FOUR <\/h3>\n<p><strong style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">7:00 A.M.<\/strong> I wake up to finish <em>Bound<\/em> by Antonya Nelson, and then spend the rest of the day running errands, sorting through books that have arrived, and trying to wrap my head around what to say in my review. It\u2019s due Monday and runs next Sunday.<\/p>\n<h3>DAY FIVE<\/h3>\n<p><strong style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">1:00 P.M.<\/strong> It\u2019s back to Book Soup, this time for my friend Cecil Castellucci\u2019s midday reading from her young-adult novel <em>Rose Sees Red<\/em>. I give Cecil a ride to the airport\u2014she\u2019s off to Wordstock in Portland\u2014and head right back to Book Soup. There are plenty of other places to go for readings and signings in Los Angeles, I swear, but it\u2019s become Book Soup week. This time, Lorin Stein <a href=\"http:\/\/westhollywood.patch.com\/articles\/editor-of-paris-review-brings-literary-entertainment-to-weho\">talks to a full house<\/a> about <em>The Paris Review<\/em> with David L. Ulin. Nobody gets punched in the nose.<\/p>\n<h3>DAY SIX<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Screen-shot-2010-10-21-at-11.01.11-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Screen-shot-2010-10-21-at-11.01.11-AM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6588\" \/><\/a><strong style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">6:00 A.M.<\/strong> Up and trying to finish the <em>Bound<\/em> review and blog at the same time. Coffee helps.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">5:00 P.M.<\/strong> Leave the paper to drive the hour-plus to UCLA for the <a href=\"http:\/\/mhpbooks.com\/event.php?id=476\">Look at This F*ing Panel: A Sociological Discussion on the Hipster<\/a>, a follow-up to one held last year in New York. The audience, mostly students, is not overly hipsterized, except for the proliferation of crocheted hats, which can only be an unfortunate fashion statement on an eighty-degree day.<\/p>\n<h3>DAY SEVEN<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/600full-gavin-mcinnes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/600full-gavin-mcinnes-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6590\" \/><\/a><strong style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">6:00 A.M.<\/strong> Writing up the hipster panel for<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/jacketcopy\/2010\/10\/hipster-pornography.html\"> Jacket Copy<\/a>, Tao Lin and his fans in the audience look good, and my admiration for Gavin McInnes, shirtless and full of counterintuitive interruptions is too subtle. Alas, McInnes, a cofounder of <em>Vice Magazine<\/em>, later <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Gavin_McInnes\/status\/27166219291\">tweets<\/a> that my review is \u201cwimpy,\u201d which I tell myself is marginally better than \u201cboring,\u201d his other critique.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">11:30 A.M.<\/strong> At my desk at the paper, trying to sort out ongoing login problems and prepping for the Man Booker Prize announcement. There are people in London gathered at a gala event; me, I\u2019m frustrated that the BBC, which is broadcasting it, isn\u2019t making the stream available in the U.S. Luckily, someone tweets a version of the feed I can see. It\u2019s jittery, a hack I think, but it does the trick. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">1:50 P.M.<\/strong> Howard Jacobson wins for <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Finkler-Question-Howard-Jacobson\/dp\/1408809109\">The Finkler Question<\/a><\/em>. I don\u2019t know diddly about the man or the book, but I slam out a blog post and then race for feedback for a print piece.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Jonathan-Safran-Foer-001-e1287673474953-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6592\" \/><strong>2:30 P.M.<\/strong> All hail Jonathan Safran Foer, a longtime fan of Howard Jacobson who quickly responds to my query about his Booker win. If you want someone to say nice things about your writing, you\u2019d have a hard time finding someone better than Foer, who is effusive, articulate, warm, and sincere.<\/p>\n<p>Foer would probably never tweet that an event review was wimpy.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that it\u2019s hard to value Foer and McInnes simultaneously. The sincerity and the grand prank, the kindly thoughtful and the baldly obnoxious. Can I admire them both? Because I do.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Getty-Museum-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6594\" \/><strong style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">5:00 P.M.<\/strong> It\u2019s back in the car for another hour-plus drive to the west side, this time to the Getty. No matter how bad the traffic, by the time I get to the top of the hill, I always feel at ease and liberated. It\u2019s the views, and Richard Meier\u2019s grand architecture, arrogance and all, and the vastness of the project. Like the Huntington Library, this is a space built from the proceeds of tycoonery of an earlier generation; but the Getty\u2019s recent construction, and its hilltop isolation, makes it seem all the more impossible. Was this really created? Do we really get to go here?<\/p>\n<p>And am I really getting five minutes to talk to Steve Martin?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Steve_Martin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Steve_Martin-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6596\" \/><\/a>There was some last-minute reconfiguring about who was going to cover the event (it was me, and I <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/jacketcopy\/2010\/10\/steve-martin-and-frederick-tuten-on-writing-and-art.html\">blogged<\/a> it). Someone else at the paper has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Self-Portraits-Fictions-Frederic-Tuten\/dp\/0393079058\/\">Tuten<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Object-Beauty-Novel-Steve-Martin\/dp\/0446573647\">Martin\u2019s<\/a> new books, but there I was, afterward, being ushered into the greenroom. Steve Martin shook my hand, asked my name, then looked at me as if he wasn\u2019t sure if I was the right person (maybe I wasn\u2019t). In the short interview, I asked Tuten and Martin questions with my iPhone recording on the table between them\u2014yes, there\u2019s an app for that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tutenmartin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tutenmartin-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6598\" \/><\/a>Behind me, around two walls, other interviewers waited their turns. I\u2019d never been surrounded by other journalists before while conducting an interview, and when it was over I felt odd, like I\u2019d been asking questions naked. I couldn\u2019t figure out why, at first, but then I realized that an interview, when it\u2019s done to be transcribed and shaped later, is a process with room for fits and starts, for returning from a different angle, for saying the wrong thing, even when that might be the way to discover the most interesting answer (this, of course, is ridiculously obvious to anyone who reads <em>The Paris Review<\/em>\u2019s interviews). It\u2019s strange to have others watching the process.<\/p>\n<p>Not that five minutes is room for anything much. Tuten is gracious and thoughtful; Martin a bit wary. He takes one of my questions sideways and explains how he\u2019s exacting in his writing so readers (he slows down) actually take note &#8230; of what they just &#8230; read. \u201cIn fact, my greatest horror is a sentence that I know just went by, and they didn\u2019t really note what was just said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I look up from my notebook: \u201cI\u2019m sorry, what?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It gets a laugh\u2014it\u2019s an obvious joke, but the timing wasn\u2019t bad, and it\u2019s the kind of moment that can help an interview along. Martin relaxes a little bit\u2014he can trust me not to completely miss the point\u2014but just a few minutes later we\u2019re done.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s the long drive back to Echo Park, and my alarm is set for 5:15 A.M. 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