The LA Times Festival of Books panel coverage is finally making its way out of exhausted minds and onto the blogs of those who attended the literary sweat fest. I'm knee-deep (but really?) in my write-up for the second panel I attended (only six more to go) and will have it up later this afternoon.
I've been linking to some excellent coverage at the newly created column to your left (tippy top) in an attempt to re-create the experience for those who could not attend. If you've written up a panel that I've not yet gotten to or didn't even make it to, let me know. The idealized goal: at least one link to each of the fiction panels.
As I'll be providing a steady stream of panel write-ups throughout the week (which inherently means they won't all be up today) - I offer you Ed's panel write-up not of the book fest but from Columbia University. The subject and inevitable disagreements (which I thought were over, for the most part) flow from the painful but, it seems, still relevant topic: Blogging - Good or Bad for Literary Culture? While Birkerts annoys just as much as he did the last time I wrote about him, I'm pleased to see that Jenny Davidson appears to be just as intelligent as her blog implies.
