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Here it is Tuesday again, time for the newest Southern California bestseller lists, fresh through Sunday's sales at local independent bookstores. Politics insider "Game Change" by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin stays atop the nonfiction hardcovers, with former John
Edwards aide Andrew Young rising to #8 with "The Politician." Kathryn Stockett's "The Help" isn't going anywhere — still #1 after all these weeks — but Don DeLillo comes aboard at #3 with "Point Omega." Food does well, as always, with Julia Child cracking the hardcover list. And Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" makes an appearance. Full lists are on the Books and Authors page.
Book notes: Jonathan Kirsch bought on Equator Books' final day, and today hosted a KCRW Politics of Culture discussion on e-books with author Dora Levy Mossanen, NYT columnist Motoko Rich and WSJ tech journalist Peter Kafka....The spring issue of the Los Angeles Review has gone to the printer, per a new blog post from the editors...Carolyn Kellogg talks to science journalist Rebecca Skloot about "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks"....The Vroman's blog has moved to a new address. Bookmark this: blog.vromans.com...Neal Pollack will read "Stretch: The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude" in a yoga class...Red Hen Press's reading at the Geffen Playhouse...Neil Gaiman will write a "Dr. Who" episode...It's fund drive time for KPFK's Bibliocracy...English-speaking writers who choose to write in Spanish...Former White House communications director (under G.W. Bush) Nicolle Wallace sold her first novel, "Eighteen Acres" — "following the first female President and her staff as they take on dangerous threats from abroad and within her very own cabinet" — to Atria for publication in October 2010, per Publishers Lunch.
Plus: Steve Greenberg cartoon on independent bookstores.