As noted by Publishers Marketplace earlier this morning, a publicist friend of San Diego Union-Tribune book review editor Arthur Salm passes word along that, months after the public outcry over cuts to his section, the veteran journalist has been reassigned by his editors to a metro beat. (After which, it's rumored, the book reviews might get cut even further under new editor Bob Pinkus.) But that doesn't mean Salm's giving up the literary life—he'll be leading an in-store discussion with legendary crime writer Joseph Wambaugh Saturday afternoon at the Mysterious Galaxy bookshop.

An attempt to contact Salm and confirm the new assignment, or to learn whether he'd be doing more such events in the future, was unsuccessful.