ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - The late novelist Kurt Vonnegut allegedly turned to his pal Joe Heller at a party on Shelter Island, "This hedge fund manager, whose house we are in made more in a single day than you made on Catch 22 over its whole history, Joe." 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - On Friday, there was something of a cosmic joke as Strefan Fauble, who has certainly done his fair share of the customary garrotting of public speakers in Mayor Garcetti's Temple of Democracy, seemed to have had his microphone shut down.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Who wants to be the homelessness beat reporter?   What a grim assignment. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - A respected journalist, Jeff Jarvis, who identifies as a CUNY professor fired off a 19-tweet salute last week, touting the natural scarcity of quality.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - I grew up in the suburbs of New York so started reading a local Gannet chain newspaper as a boy and the New York Times. 

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - Louis “Skip” Miller is an attorney who frequently represents the county of Los Angeles, and the county does not willingly share how much they compensate his law firm, Miller Barondess, LLP, but the county does allow Skip wide latitude when it comes to speaking out in court and to the press.