Live from Wordstock: James Ellroy

News 2 pm Saturday, Oct. 10 at the Oregon Convention Center: Wordstock this year has been a somewhat smaller affair (in a recession, everything recedes), taking up one rather than two of the Convention Center's cavernous event halls. I had arrived early enough on Saturday to catch the charismatic Barry Sanders read a bit of a polemic against the military-industrial complex, had watched kids' author ...   More