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Weekly Literary Supplement

Summer reading

Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 3:57 pm

(Illustration by Jesse Lefkowitz)
(Illustration by Jesse Lefkowitz)
Weekly Literary Supplement: Summer Reading

Sticks and Bones: CLAIRE MESSUD on Donald Antrim’s anti-redemptionist memoir.

The L.A. Word: BRENDAN BERNHARD on A.M. Homes away from home.

New fiction from T.C. BOYLE's upcoming book, Talk Talk.

It's a Bad Bad Bad Bad World: NATHAN IHARA on selling tomorrow in The Futurist.

The Spider and the Wasp: MEHAMMED MACK talks with John Updike about his Terrorist.

Timothy Liar: LEWIS MacADAMS on the new Timothy Leary biography.

Graphic Oddballs: DOUG HARVEY on unknown comic visionaries in Art Out of Time.

JIM RULAND on Lost’s classic, Flann O Brien's The Third Policeman.

Hans and Fooligans: BRENDAN BERNHARD on a literary guide to the World Cup.

The Beaver Trap: DAVE SHULMAN on Allan MacDonell’s Prisoner of X, recounting his decades at Hustler.

 

All Hopped Up at The New Father's Office

By Jonathan Gold

Sang Yoon's latest is bigger and probably better than the original. But can you get a seat?

Fried Chicken Wonderland

By Jonathan Gold

Northeast LA: The golden triangle

Behind the Scenes at the Sundance Labs

By ELLA TAYLOR

Building a better screenwriter

Speed Racer On the Fast Track to Nowhere

By J. HOBERMAN

Anime on overdrive from the Wachowski brothers

Brix @ 1601: The Newest Home of Rock-Star Sommelier Caitlin Stansbury

By Jonathan Gold

Plus food from former Hollywood Roosevelt chef Michael McDonald ... wined and dined in Hermosa Beach

Bad Rap: How Aspiring Hip-hop Star Herbie Gonzalez Got Pegged as a Manhattan Beach Murderer (163)

By PAUL TEETOR
Wed, Apr 9, 3:50 pm

Anatomy of a false confession

Have Movie Stereotypes Returned? (30)

By STEVEN MIKULAN
Wed, Apr 23, 11:59 am

Back in black (and yellow) face

Doomscraper? Here Comes Hollywood's First-Ever Mega-Skyscraper (11)

By PATRICK RANGE MCDONALD
Wed, Apr 30, 4:30 pm

A community thrown into shadow and vistas of the Hollywood sign could be destroyed

Billboards Gone Wild: 4,000 Illegal Billboards Choke L.A.'s Neighborhoods (11)

By CHRISTINE PELISEK
Wed, Apr 23, 6:00 pm

Is City Hall corrupt, or just inept?

Griddle Me This (7)

By Jonathan Gold
Wed, Mar 25, 1998, 12:00 am

Japanese pizza in Torrance

L.A.'s Newest Gay Night Out: Tom Whitman's Cherry Pop

By PATRICK RANGE MCDONALD
Wed, May 7, 11:59 am

Opening of West Hollywood's "ridiculously fun" Saturday-night party at the Ultra Suede club

Lakers Beat: Team Dinner

By MICHAEL KRIKORIAN
Wed, May 7, 11:58 am

Crowd at Mozza saw the Lakers squad gather in a private dining room to study the Jazz-Rockets game over pizza. Guess who paid?

Art Openings

By SIRAN BABAYAN
Mon, May 5, 2:02 pm

For the week of May 9 -15, 2008

New Fiction: "Sunday"

By JOE DONNELLY
Wed, May 7, 12:00 pm

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

Prodigy Schmodigy

By DOUG HARVEY
Wed, Jul 19, 2006, 12:00 pm

Don’t ask if 6-year-old Marla Olmstead is a painting wunderkind. Look at the work

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Blogs

Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily

Primetime Pilot Panic: 'Filthy Rich' OKed
Sun, May 11, 9:20 pm

LA Daily

Narco war update: El Chapo's son goes down
Sun, May 11, 4:04 pm

Play

The Kidz In the Hall Demonstrate the Power of A Good Rolodex
Fri, May 9, 4:00 pm

Catch of the Day

Record turnout
Fri, May 9, 7:34 am

Style Council

The Kids In the 'Secret Show' Hall
Thu, May 8, 9:41 am

Slideshows

JIm Howser Mere Inches Solo Show

At Merry Karnowsky Gallery

Cute Overload at the Family Pet Expo

Kittens, puppies, ducks and all sorts of

The Bookish Set

By GENDY ALIMURUNG
Wed, May 16, 2007, 12:30 pm

Inside the indie booksellers

Miranda July's Childlike, Unchildlike Art

By NATHAN IHARA
Wed, May 16, 2007, 12:00 pm

Making things

Topsy the Elephant

By Stephan Clark
Wed, May 16, 2007, 12:00 pm

Fiction: New Voices

The Good Word

By KATHERINE KARLIN
Wed, May 16, 2007, 12:00 pm

Fiction: New voices

Thwack!

By SANDI TAN
Wed, May 16, 2007, 12:00 pm

Fiction: New voices

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