Louisa Ermelino
 Louisa Ermelino is a writer and journalist, the author of three novels: JOEY DEE GETS WISE, THE BLACK MADONNA, and THE SISTERS MALLONE. She has worked at People, Time and Instyle magazines and has taught creative writing at Columbia University. User Stats
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Who is Charles Pero?July 19, 2007 | Link This | Email this | Comments (4)
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Ravioli...Better than puppies?July 11, 2007 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0) Tough question but ravioli these days, especially here in New York, is a seriously incredibly delicious food. There are certainly some of you out there who were subjected to the canned variety.. echhhhh... sorry for you... but this is a blog about books so how have I been going on about puppies and now ravioli? I'm not explaining the puppies (just look at the pictures) but the ravioli interest was sparked by a book: The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken by Laura Schenone who won a James Beard award for A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove. The book is a quest for a family recipe and it's a wonderful memoir of family connections and difficulties and food and obsession. Particularly seductive is that Schenone's Italian roots are in Liguria, a place very different from red sauce Italy. This is the land of basil and potatoes and walnuts and wild ...Read More Recent Posts
Bulldog Puppies...Not just Any Old PuppiesJune 29, 2007 | Link This | Email this | Comments (3)
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James Ellroy and Joseph Wambaugh get down and dirty in L.A.May 4, 2007 | Link This | Email this | Comments (1) "L.A. Come out on vacation, leave on probation," Ellroy tells a standing room only crowd on Saturday at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, where he introduced Joseph Wambaugh, the writer, who like Ellroy, has put L.A. cops and robbers on the literary map. Wambaugh (Hollywood Station) handsome in a suit and tie looking every bit the detective he once was, is the perfect foil for the flamboyant Ellroy, who appears stage left promising anyone buying a thousand copies of his books "sex with every person on the planet you desire." Two thousand gets you more of the same with the added "every night and a free pass into heaven." Three thousand.. well, you get the idea... the crowd's in love. Ellroy (L.A. Confidential, The Black Dahlia, White Jazz), who's back living in his hometown, credits reading Wambaugh in the 70's (The O...Read More Recent Posts
War and PeaceApril 20, 2007 | Link This | Email this | Comments (3) Could you get a better title? Tolstoy knew his stuff. And yesterday, Sonny Mehta feted Knopf's new translation by husband and wife team Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky at The Russian Tea Room on 57th Street. The private fourth floor room was incredibly ornate, not a spot of wall or floor wasn't painted, carpeted, embellished, a Czarist Russian fantasy, and I was told that rooms exist beyond this one with bears and easter eggs and basically, "You ain't seen nothing yet." There were huge bound manuscripts of the new translation and galleys are expected soon. Just mentioning War and Peace begs the question: have you read it? The informal survey around my table resulted in a series of "no's". I wonder, should I have also asked about Gogol's nose? Has Gogol shot up the Amazon.com list with the release of Jhumpa L...Read More
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He's a farmer for one, part of a 100 year old family operation that started near Buffalo, New York, moved down to Del Ray, Florida and today has farms all over the U.S. and Central America. But this is a book blog, right? So two, Charles Pero is a thriller writer whose book ideas "just come to him" and in no time flat he's got his chapters outlined and he's ready for the next inspiration. Publishing didn't come so easily, but he figured, like farming, if he kept working, he'd get that perfect pepper. Can you grow a book the way you grow a pepper? He wrote through two years of rejection, (three more; all about serial killers) and now his first book, 
