L.A. Times: Off the Shelf

Off the Shelf: Writes on Writing is a new feature on L.A. Times Books that debuted during the 2009 Festival of Books. So far, the Friday weekly features Tod Goldberg (“Dungeons & Dragons, and iPhones and pizza”), Nahid Rachlin (“A room of her own: A writer remembers her childhood writing room in Iran.”), Taylor Antri (“When second novels go bad”), and Art Spiegelman (on “Creative Block”).