Books

A Street Musician's Symphonic Movement

ALAN RICH

Wed, May 7, 2008, 3:00 pm

Down and out at Disney Hall and coming soon to a theater near you

New Fiction: "Sunday"

JOE DONNELLY

Wed, May 7, 2008, 12:00 pm

Laura Branigan, Old Milwaukee and a tough angle on the eight ball: A short story

Sex and the Country: Do Me and Sex for America

HILLARY JOHNSON

Wed, Apr 30, 2008, 12:00 pm

Two collections of erotica feel us up

Loquat: A Short Story

ETGAR KERET

Wed, Apr 23, 2008, 11:58 am

Go on, Henri, go talk to them. You’re a gendarme, they’ll listen to you.” I put…

Teaching for America in Crips Territory: Relentless Pursuit

DIANA WAGMAN

Wed, Apr 16, 2008, 12:00 pm

Hope and little glory at an L.A. high school

The Lost City; The Voyage of the Short Serpent; the Wonder, the Horror

Nathan Ihara

Wed, Apr 9, 2008, 12:00 pm

Two debut novels journey to the farthest reaches

Tobias Wolff: Where Our Story Begins

MARC WEINGARTEN

Wed, Apr 2, 2008, 12:00 pm

In author's tales, adulthood is a struggle

The Age of Dreaming

Judith Freeman

Wed, Mar 26, 2008, 6:30 pm

Nina Revoyr’s silent, eerie new work

Goodbye, Dutton's!

Wed, Mar 26, 2008, 4:00 pm

Writers remember the great Brentwood bookstore on the occasion of its closing

Fiction: The Inner Sanctum

BILLY MERNIT

Wed, Mar 26, 2008, 11:00 am

An excerpt from the novel Imagine Me and You

Richard Price on Cynicism, The Wire and his Lush Life

NATHAN IHARA

Wed, Mar 19, 2008, 12:10 pm

Demeaning streets

Stealing Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie

Wed, Mar 12, 2008, 6:00 pm

Identity issues keep Native author tossing and turning

Rachel Cline's My Liar: Reality Behind Hollywood Fantasy

STACEY KALISH

Wed, Feb 27, 2008, 10:15 am

Acolytes! Action!

The Lies and Follies of Laura Albert, a.k.a. JT LeRoy

Nancy Rommelmann

Wed, Feb 20, 2008, 10:15 am

No exit plan

A. Quincy Jones: High and Low

GREG GOLDIN

Wed, Feb 20, 2008, 10:10 am

Modernist architect sought luxury on a budget

Toby Barlow's Sharp Teeth

Holly Myers

Wed, Feb 13, 2008, 3:59 pm

Baring our canines

Tyranny of the Natural: David P. Barash's Natural Selections

NATHAN IHARA

Wed, Feb 6, 2008, 10:02 am

"Dangerous David" on the wonderful complexities and conundrums of our evolutionary selves

Samantha Hunt's The Invention of Everything Else

JIM RULAND

Wed, Jan 30, 2008, 12:00 pm

Traveling through time with the world's most amazing inventor

Green Dreams: Lydia Millet's How the Dead Dream

MARC WEINGARTEN

Wed, Jan 23, 2008, 12:00 pm

A novel of hope and estrangement

Joe Sacco on Comics, the Arabs and the Jews

SCOTT THILL

Wed, Jan 16, 2008, 12:00 pm

Make it mandatory

Short Story: Freeze!

Etgar Keret

Wed, Jan 2, 2008, 4:00 pm

Suddenly I could do it. I’d say “Freeze!” and everyone would freeze, just like that,…

Our Favorite Undernourished Books of the Year

L.A. Weekly Books Critics

Wed, Dec 26, 2007, 8:00 am

THE DESCENDANTS | By KAUI HART HEMMINGS | Random House (Click to enlarge) …

Holiday Coffee-table Books for the Whole Damn Family

DAVE SHULMAN

Wed, Dec 19, 2007, 6:00 am

Many of us, I’m told, still live in buildings created specifically for human housing. And…

Matt Taibbi on How the U.S. Is Like Ike Turner

MATTHEW FLEISCHER

Tue, Dec 11, 2007, 10:00 am

Matt Taibbi has a singular approach to media criticism. As a writer for the Moscow…

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