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By David Kipen
A couple of weeks ago at Village Books in Pacific Palisades, they were selling books like it was going out of style. Some came for the inscribed... More >>
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Two books cut to the core of an L.A. obsession: female beauty
By L.J. Williamson
Fragrant steam rises from an enormous vat of tea, and steeping in the brew at this Koreatown spa are three plump Korean grandmas. Their nudity,... More >>
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The Legacy of Ken Kesey
By David Weddle
It's been nine years since the death of Ken Kesey, the author whom Tom Wolfe proclaimed "one of the most important American writers of the second... More >>
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An interview with the late Nobel laureate
By Scott Foundas
Click here for the extended version of Scott Foundas' interview with Jose Saramago.In September 2008, on assignment for this newspaper, I traveled... More >>
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An interview with the late Nobel laureate
By Scott Foundas
In September of 2008, on assignment for this newspaper, I traveled to the Canary Islands to interview the man whom, until June 18 of this year, I... More >>
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The world according to David Mitchell
By Scott Timberg
To those who like David Mitchell, he's the greatest novelist of his generation, heir to the polymath Thomas Pynchon — an ingenious, crafty... More >>
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Why the future of books might be old books
By Nathan Ihara
Click here for Nathan Ihara's list of perfectly aged summer reading.Last month much ink was spilled (and pixels burnt) on Bill Clegg's Portrait of... More >>
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Perfectly aged titles to read this summer
By Nathan Ihara
Click here for Nathan Ihara's feature The Tyranny of the New.After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie (1931) by Jean RhysIf your bedroom has ever felt too... More >>
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Jillian Lauren opens up about her life as a teenage harem girl in Brunei
By Gendy Alimurung
The girl is young and pretty, of course. They all are, the women in the sultan's harem. But this one is different. She is a rebellious punk rocker... More >>
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By F.x. Feeney
If originality is, as Vladimir Nabokov suggests, the true measure of greatness in an artist, then the argument can be made that J.D. Salinger... More >>
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It’s Angel Time for the famed author
By Gendy Alimurung
Anne Rice will never write about vampires again. Not even with these tragically hip, newfangled bloodsuckers lurking about, dating high school... More >>
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... written by and for straight women
By Gendy Alimurung
Click here for “Hot off the Press: A Gay-Romance Sampler.”Click here for “Pen Names and Prejudice,” by Gendy Alimurung.On... More >>
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By Gendy Alimurung
Click here for “Man on Man: The new gay romance, written by and for straight women,” by Gendy Alimurung.From James Buchanan’s... More >>
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By Gendy Alimurung
Click here for “Man on Man: The new gay romance, written by and for straight women,” by Gendy Alimurung.Take society’s worst... More >>
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Juicy Tidbits of a '60s Cult
By Doug Harvey
The Satanic Ritual Abuse (or SRA) conspiracy fad of the 1980s may have torn apart families, destroyed the lives of innumerable innocent people and... More >>
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An excerpt from John O' Brien's novel, Better
By John O'Brien
John O’Brien, the author of Leaving Las Vegas, committed suicide in 1994 at the age of 33. Akashic Books is now publishing his novel,... More >>
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Debra Gwertner's memoir, Live Through This
By Nancy Rommelmann
“For People magazine,” says Barry Lopez, watching as a photographer arranges a group of women before the Eugene, Oregon, condominiums... More >>
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The writer has a well-regarded short-story collection under his belt, and now a novel, This Wicked World, is about to break
By Joe Donnelly
Also read: "Devil Rain," a fiction excerpt from the forthcoming novel "This Wicked World" by Richard Lange, to be published by Little, Brown and... More >>
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From the forthcoming novel This Wicked World
By RICHARD LANGE
Also read about the author: "Something Wicked," a profile of Richard Lange by Joe Donnelly. Oscar awoke from a dream of heaven. Opening his... More >>
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By Nathan Ihara
Rudolph Ditzen took the pen name Hans Fallada in 1913 to protect his family — his father was a respected judge — from embarrassment at... More >>
