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Around Brentwood and Santa Monica, those little book-box libraries turn out to be far more diverse than the lawn signs.

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Around Movieland, New Interest In An Old Medium As The Pandemic Wears On Deadline 1/25/2021 One of the more unexpected shifts in media habits during the pandemic, at least for me, has been a new interest in those little bird-box book libraries that inhabit front lawns in the quieter neighborhoods here. I regularly pass a dozen of them on a circuit of five or six miles around Santa Monica and Brentwood. Always, I stop to see what they’re offering. Sometimes, bag and sanitizer in hand, I’ll...

Book World: Fictional take on Salinger lets much of the mystery be Mark Athitakis, The Washington Post Dec. 31, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail By Jerome Charyn - - - In an alternate-universe version of 2020 - and who wouldnt want one of those? - we were talking a lot more about J.D. Salinger. By the end of the year we were supposed to have had new books featuring Holden Caulfield, the Glass clan and more, according to a 2013 oral history of the reclusive author. But no new books materialized. Perha...