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This Wicked World by Richard Lange. Los Angeles Times, July 5, 2009.

All About Lulu: A Novel by Jonathan Evison. Los Angeles Times, August 3, 2008.

The Boat by Nam Le. Los Angeles Times, July 6, 2008.

God’s Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre by Richard Grant. Los Angeles Times, Mar 9, 2008.

The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World by Eric Weiner. Los Angeles Times, Jan 27, 2008.

Remainder by Tom McCarthy; The Quarterly Conversation, Fall 2007

Fields of Asphodel, A Novel by Tito Perdue. Los Angeles Times, Jul 15, 2007.

Petropolis: A Novel by Anya Ulinich. Los Angeles Times, Feb 18, 2007.

Washed Up: The Curious Journeys of Flotsam and Jetsam by Skye Moody. Los Angeles Times, Nov 26, 2006.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: Twenty-Five Stories by Haruki Murakami. Los Angeles Times, Sep 10, 2006.

Surfing’s Greatest Misadventures: Dropping In on the Unexpected Edited by Paul Diamond and Tyler McMahon; and West of Jesus: Surfing, Science, and the Origins of Belief by Steven Kotler. Los Angeles Times, Jun 11, 2006.