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Publisher of Ebooks and Commentary January 2019 RSS Feed Home Ebooks Ebook Full List Lionel Rolfe Leslie Evans Phyl van Ammers The Misadventures of Ari Mendelsohn: A Mostly True Memoir of California Journalism Paper Books THE MISADVENTURE OF ARI MENDELSOHN Literary LA The Menuhins: A Family Odyssey Edendale Shaggy Man’s Ramblings: Essays by Leslie Evans More from the Shaggy Man Limited Edition Paper Backlist Still Available Lionel Rolfe’s Books Contact Us Literary LA Cabaret: Honoring the Life and Work of Lionel Rolfe: Sunday, December 8, 2019, 7:30 to 9:00 pm, 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, CA Hits: 92 December 2, 2019 · Posted in Commentary · Comment Literary L.A. Cabaret Sunday, Dec 8 th 7:30 to 9 pm (with reception to follow to 10 pm) Beyond Baroque, Venice, California artists’ links Spoken word performances by Lee Boek https://www.facebook.com/PWImprovT/ Mike Sonksen (aka Mike the Poet) http://theaccomplices.org/portfolio/letters-to-my-city-by-mike-sonksen/?fbclid=IwAR3JgJFashWliZ_K-24N8l806GsjotEu1GOeLA3aw2NJxNqXtIJR1WNSMCw Anna Broome https://www.facebook.com/TheAnnaBroomeRoom/ Musical performances by Sonji Kimmons https://vimeo.com/91019983 Nolan Porter and Patrice Zappa Porter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8H_-c73LxU The Wild Honeys https://www.facebook.com/4wildhoneys/?__tn__=%2Cd%2CP-R&eid=ARADyaYqgnKr7DTpaC0OS82FVEyWpn2nBrs79fLAn4iYjVvtlrgk9bS8oUhlglV_aZjJCGyQAkHWng-0 James Preston Allen https://www.facebook.com/james.p.allen.12 Lorraine Morland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFyzYsl-A7E&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1YrkJ_QiTuStk90cvX0IVgjqO-19lBM20x8VArBOzF-v3Vchbu7B8l13U Tags: no tags The Future of Hits: 148 January 1, 2019 · Posted in Commentary · Comment With the death of Lionel Rolfe, the founder of , on November 6, both the book publishing section and the monthly blog posting are currently on hold. The posts today, January 1, 2019, are the last. The website will stay up at least through early August 2020, so the years of existing posts will stay accessible. , both the book publishing and website, are now the property of Lionel’s daughter, Hyla Douglas. She has not solidified any plans at this time for the future of the project. was created in 2009. Over those nine years it produced 14 books, all of them in ebook Kindle format, and most of them also in paper, through Amazon’s CreateSpace publishing service. For this month for our last set of posts we are offering four chapters from Lionel Rolfe’s books. Novelist Umberto Tosi writes about his decades long friendship with Lionel. There are tributes by Linda Laroche from the Pasadena Weekly and from Mike Sonksen from the Cultural Weekly. There is also a last Honey column in our Notes from Above Ground section, this time on the road to San Francisco traced by early Spanish explorers. Honey van Blossom is the pen name of California Bay Area attorney Phyl van Ammers. And we have one more short piece by the late Katherine Hisako Glascock. Tags: no tags The Last Bohemian: Lionel Rolfe Hits: 172 January 1, 2019 · Posted in Commentary · Comment Photos by Bonnie Perkinson. Mike Sonksen Former Herald Examiner columnist and longtime literary Los Angeles chronicler Lionel Rolfe died in his sleep of a heart attack on November 6 th in Glendale at the age of 76. Beginning his freelance journalism career at 16, Rolfe wrote 9 books and lived almost all his life in California. His best-known book, Literary L.A, first published in 1981 by Chronicle Books, is a pioneering work covering a century of Los Angeles literature. Rolfe’s tireless work on the history of LA writers foreshadowed the explosion of studies on Los Angeles literature years ahead of the curve. Rolfe became immersed in the Los Angeles cultural community while at Los Angeles City College in the 1960s. A devoted denizen of long-gone 1960s coffeehouses like Pogo’s Swamp, Rolfe wrote columns for the Los Angeles Free Press and was later blacklisted for his work with the Communist Party. Read more Tags: no tags Notes From the Underground of Lionel Menhuin Rolfe by Novelist Umberto Tosi Hits: 161 January 1, 2019 · Posted in Commentary · Comment Umberto Tosi [Novelist Umberto Tosi was contributing writer to Forbes, covering the Silicon Valley 1995-2004. Prior to that, he was an editor and staff writer for the Los Angeles Times and its Sunday magazine. He was also the editor of San Francisco Magazine. He published one of his novels, Our Own Kind , serially at .com. They became friends while working at the Los Angeles Times in the early 1970s.] * * * by Umberto Tosi Here we are again, down to the last page of another year’s calendar. Time to celebrate the holidays – and think about what I’ve done, if anything, to make my 2018 worthwhile. I know. It’s been a long while since we relied on actual calendars – although I love them. Like maps, they’ve been swallowed up by our smartphones. But whether marked on 4-color glossy paper or digital screens, it’s still a long way from May to December, as the Noel Coward song goes. The chill rainy dawning of this December strikes me as particularly poignant given the recent death of a long-time friend and esteemed colleague, Lionel Menuhin Rolfe , He passed away on November 6 in a Glendale, California medical facility, at age 76, of a heart attack after many months of complications from diabetes, a stroke and painful infections following a fall. Lionel was prolific author, essayist, raconteur, outspoken leftist, cultural commentator, Jewish contrarian and historian, media gadfly and chronicler of all things California, especially sprawling anomalies and the creative life of Los Angeles. And what else? So many things, but mainly and always one thing – a writer: Actually, he was a writers’ writer. Read more Tags: no tags THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LONGTIME LA JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR LIONEL MENUHIN ROLFE Hits: 132 January 1, 2019 · Posted in Commentary · Comment Linda Laroche In the span of five decades, veteran Los Angeles journalist Lionel Rolfe wrote thousands of news stories and features, covering police, politics, arts and culture for daily, weekly and later online publications. Also during that time, Rolfe authored a dozen books, one titled “Fat Man on the Left,” a self-deprecating description of his own physical appearance and political leanings. Perhaps best known recently in local journalism circles for his work with City News Service (CNS), Huffington Post, Random Lengths and the Pasadena Weekly, Rolfe had been in poor health over the past three years. He died in his sleep on Nov. 6 of an apparent heart attack at a Glendale medical facility, said his daughter, Hyla Douglas. He was 76. Read more Tags: no tags Death in the Desert Hits: 274 January 1, 2019 · Posted in Commentary · Comment Ted and Pat Derby with their jaguar Clyde in 1973. Lionel Rolfe [This piece is from Lionel’s Fat Man on the Left: Four Decades in the Underground (1998). Most of it concerns the shooting death of famous wild animal trainer Ted Derby in Sand Canyon, near Tehachapi on April 14, 1976. Lionel with his then-wife Nigey Lennon covered this story for the Los Angeles Times. Lionel had met Ted Derby and his wife Pat Derby, also a well-known wild animal trainer, when Lionel was working as a reporter for the Newhall Signal , in 1968. In addition to this essay he wrote a long piece about a visit to Pat Derby and her partner Ed Stewart in 2010 at their home in San Andreas, California. The pair had founded the Performing Animal Welfare Society, which operates three sanctuaries for abandoned or abused animals, including elephants, lions, and tigers. Pat died in 2013.] * * * When my dog Rosie died, she died an enigma. She was a loyal protector. She saved my wife’s life early one morn­ing when her old car broke down on a darkened side street, and an angry-looking drunk waving a large cres­cent wrench approached her, muttering angrily. But he stopped when he saw Rosie. Rosie, who was normally a very gentle dog, rose up on her hind legs and gr...