LINKS

People and things that inspire us

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• AUTHOR'S & ILLUSTRATOR'S SITES •
• BLOGS • BOOK STORES • PUBLISHERS • OTHER SITES •

AUTHOR'S & ILLUSTRATOR'S SITES

Haruki Murakami
• The masterful writer's official website •
www.harukimurakami.com

Miranda July
• visual and performance artist, writer and filmmaker •
www.mirandajuly.com

Mary Rechner
• The author of "Hot Springs"•
with links to her other work
www.maryrechner.com

Me and You and Everyone We Know
• Miranda July's wonderful film •
The winner of the Camera D'or at Cannes opens on June 17
www.meandyoumovie.com

Learning to Love You More
• web site and series of non-web presentations comprised •
of work made by the public in response to assignments
given by artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher.
www.learningtoloveyoumore.com

NavaLubelski.com
• Selected artworks by Nava Lubelski •
www.navalubelski.com

The Starving Artist's Way
• easy projects for low budget living by Nava Lubelski •
make it easy, make it fast, make it cheap
www.thestarvingartistsway.com

BLOGS

Miranda July's Blog
• chronicling her journey through the release of her film •
Me and You and Everyone We Know
meandyou.typepad.com

Ash Tree
• the journal of writer Henry Baum •
hbaum.blogspot.com

Fishbowl LA
• Michael Sonnenschein's gossip blog about Los Angeles media •
www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla

The Elegant Variation
• Mark Sarvas's acclaimed literary blog •
marksarvas.blogs.com

Moorish Girl
• Laila Lalami's blog of literary news and commentary, •
plus the odd cultural or political link
moorishgirl.com

BOOK STORES

Skylight Books
• Los Feliz's independent bookstore •
www.skylightbooks.com

Small World Books
• The independent book store on the Venice boardwalk •
www.smallworldbooks.com

Powell's Books
• The great Portland based (and online) independent bookstore •
www.powells.com

Dutton's Bookstore
• LA's wonderful independent bookstore •
Now also in Beverly Hills
www.duttonsbrentwood.com
www.duttonsbeverlyhills.com

Pegasus Books
• Independent Booksellers in Berkeley and Oakland Since 1971 •
www.pegasusbookstore.com

Counterpoint Records and Books (and the Harmony Gallery too)
• New and used books/records in Los Feliz for more than 20 years •
www.counterpointrecordsandbooks.com

Cow Books
• Tokyo's best independent bookstore. Specializing in out-of-print •
books focusing 1960-70s social movements, progressive politics,Protest,the Beat Generation, and first editions of forgotten modern authors.
"Everything for the Freedom"
www.cowbooks.jp

Atlantis Books
• The best bookstore in Santorini, Greece •
www.atlantisbooks.org

Book Sense
• a family of independent-bookseller websites •
www.booksense.com

PUBLISHERS

Tin House
• Sets the bar high for literary quarterlies•
www.tinhouse.com

Future Tense Books
• Check out the books by this excellent independent press •
www.futuretensebooks.com

Hobart
• Never fails to delight and confound •
www.hobartpulp.com

826LA
• They publish books, but mostly they're •
an incredible drop-in tutoring resource in Los Angeles
www.826LA.org

Small Spiral Notebook
• One of the best of its kind. Check it out. •
www.smallspiralnotebook.com

Gertrude
• Check out this cool mag coming out of Portland •
www.gertrudepress.org

Ballyhoo Stories
• Both the print and online editions are beautifully designed •
Each issue has an odd and intriguing theme
www.ballyhoostories.com

Contemporary Press
• Raw words, well done •
"Fuck Literature" is their motto
www.contemporarypress.com

Miranda Literary Magazine
• I shall try and tell the truth, but the result will be fiction •
www.mirandamagazine.com

OTHER SITES

Good Boy ... Bad Boy
• "a venue of never-ending complexity •
and continuing interest"
www.goodboy-badboy.com

Post Secrets
• Anonymous secrets revealed on post cards •
www.postsecrets.com