California Literary Review

David Loftus

Native Oregonian David Loftus has lived in Europe and Boston and traveled in Asia and West Africa. He has been a full-time newspaper reporter and has authored three books. Currently, Loftus writes occasional free-lance book reviews for THE OREGONIAN as well as the CALIFORNIA LITERARY REVIEW. He also blogs at www.americancurrents.com. After spending much of his adult life as a writer, copyeditor, and proofreader, with only occasional forays on the stage, he started working seriously as an actor in his late 40s, in 2005. For the past seven years, he has read literature aloud to live audiences every month at a coffee shop, an event he calls "Story Time for Grownups." By 2009, Loftus had become a full-time freelance writer and actor and was regularly doing print modeling jobs and acting in commercials, industrial videos, and indie films in 2010. In early 2012 he also launched a political talk radio show which he hosts on Sunday nights but which is also archived for later listening or download at any time on BlogTalkRadio.com. Loftus lives in Portland with his wife Carole and dog Pixie, a seven-pound toy fox terrier. Wordpress Hacks

Stories By David Loftus

Movies

In Character: Actors Acting by Howard Schatz

By David LoftusMay 17, 2022

Imagine 32 famous actors looking you straight in the eye and flirting with you. (Marlee Matlin!...
Music

Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles

By David LoftusMay 16, 2022

Oh, no—the cry is almost involuntary—not another Beatles book! What more could anyone possibly say? The...
Books

Book Review: Broken Harbor by Tana French

By David LoftusMarch 31, 2022

Right out of the gate, French displayed a gift for rich psychological plots, complex characterizations, and...
Biography

The Story of AC/DC by Susan Masino

By David LoftusOctober 16, 2021

Rock biographies, particularly of bands, are an odd subgenre. With an individual singer or instrumentalist, the...