Books and Literature

DC Comics Writer and Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns Explains the Comic Books That Inspired Him

Have you walked around a comic book store or convention and wondered why so many people are wearing Green Lantern t-shirts? Geoff Johns might have something to do with that. The comic book writer helmed the series for nine years. He reintroduced Hal Jordan as the famed superhero with Green Lantern: ... More >>

Geek Shit

L.A. Author Da Chen Discusses His Acclaimed Novel My Last Empress

See also: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. L.A. author Da Chen, who is appearing at Book Soup tomorrow, answered some questions on his new novel My Last Empress for our Ask the Author column.

L.A. Indie Book Publishers Are Thriving. How Is That Possible?

Starting a book publishing house in today's economic climate, Anthony Berryman acknowledges, was "insane." He admits, "From a business perspective, it was never a thought that I was going to be a book publisher. I'm a high school teacher. That's what I do."But start a publishing house is just wh ... More >>

Chris Elliott Just Wrote His Own Unauthorized Autobiography

You may know Chris Elliott for his hilarious characters on Late Night With David Letterman or from Get a Life and a whole bunch of movies, but he's also a prolific author, whose new book is called The Guy Under the Sheets: The Unauthorized Autobiography. He's in town for Live Talks Los Angeles's "An ... More >>

Best Sit-Down With Two Comic Geniuses

Q & A With Luisa Weiss: Her New Book, the Future of The Wednesday Chef Cooking in Germany

If you've spent much of the last seven years reading Luisa Weiss' celebrated food blog The Wednesday Chef, as many of us have, it will not surprise you to learn that her new book is a charming read. Nor will it surprise you to learn that she's an engaging reader in real life, as she was when she c ... More >>

Elimination Night by Anonymous: Our Book of the Week

According to the people who track these things, there are roughly 170,000 new books published each year in the United States -- an alarming percentage of which arrive, unbidden, at the L.A. Weekly office. Each week, we'll offer a snapshot of a newish book that's caught our attention. Just as there ... More >>

Arjun Neuman and Kestrel Burley

Sam McPheeters, of the '90s Punk Band Born Against, On His Bizarre Novel About L.A.'s Angriest Chevron Owner

"I wanted it to be like a firework show," Sam McPheeters says about the crescendo of energy and tension in his debut novel, The Loom of Ruin. "It just gets more and more insane." Co-founder of the legendary hardcore punk band Born Against, McPheeters' first novel was just released via Mugger Books ... More >>

Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls Murder Book Shoots to Top of Amazon

​Murder Rap, the book written by former LAPD detective Greg Kading implicating Sean Combs and Suge Knight in the slayings of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls, officially came out today. So far, only LA Weekly has interviewed Kading about his self-published book and the revelations he shares, which ... More >>

Daphna Edwards Ziman, NY Times Bestselling Author of The Gray Zone: Our 'Ask the Author' Interview

Ziman's first novel, The Gray Zone, published by Greenleaf Book Group Press in June 2011.​ Local author Daphna Edwards Ziman garnered a lot of attention for socially aware novel The Gray Zone, which chronicled the fate of kids put in the American foster care system via a fast-paced thriller o ... More >>

An Evening with Max Weinberg

Bloomsday

Food Memoir(s) Review: A Tiger In The Kitchen And The Problematic Food Memoir Genre

​Memoirs have never been easy to pull off. For starters, no matter how interesting we may personally find our own Pinot Noir-enlivened nights, publishers have long gravitated to those authors who are famous enough to keep those Williams-Sonoma book signing lines out the front door. Even if tho ... More >>

Russell Simmons

Andre Codrescu

Artist As Outlaw

The Legacy of Ken Kesey

Adventures: The Journey of DC Comics

Evgenia Citkowitz and Annette Bening

Natasha Vargas-Cooper signs Mad Men Unbuttoned: A Romp Through 1960s America.

Peep Show Reading

Global Touch

The world according to David Mitchell

Adam Jones of Tool Launches New Comic Book Series, Selected as Featured Artist for Alternative Press Magazine's 25th Anniversary Exhibit

http://cosm.typepad.comAdam Jones holds his bronze sculpture​Many know Adam Jones from Tool as one of the world's greatest guitarists, however the L.A.-based musician also has an unrelenting passion for visual arts that spans his entire life. From finding refuge in comic books as a child, to a ... More >>

The Tyranny of the New

Why the future of books might be old books

Bloomsday at The Hammer

The Comfort of Anne Rice's Shadow

The Comfort of Anne Rice's Shadow

HEY NERD -- WANNA A FREE COMIC BOOK?

Jim Lehrer

I WANNA GO TO CHELSEA

A Big Shot Writer in Pasadena

Michelle Huneven's 'Blame' A Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award: Fiction, Not Food Writing

Michelle Huneven​Blame, the third novel of longtime Weekly contributor Michelle Huneven was announced as a finalist for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle award in fiction. Squid Ink couldn't be happier. Sure, Huneven has been writing for the Weekly for what seems like half of forever, incl ... More >>

DON'T FEAR THE WEEPER

Michael Connelly: The Kid Who Couldn't Write

Hammer Conversation

How Fiction Works: King James and the Battle for the Novel

It's James Wood's World and We're Just Reading In It

MORE PROOF THAT MAKING FUN OF PEOPLE CAN LEAD TO A FULFILLING CAREER

Can Authors Riff? Discuss.

Jewish Boys and Comic Books: Zap! Pow! Bam! The Golden Age of Comic Books at the Skirball

View more photos of superhero and comic book rarities in the "Golden Age of Comics" slideshow. There is a pretty amazing collection at the Skirball Cultural Center's new exhibit "Zap! Pow! Bam! The Superhero: The Golden Age of Comic Books, 1938-1950." Some stuff on display just blew my mind, like ... More >>

Singular Sensations

Turning Darkness into Light

Seduction of the Degenerate

Rebel Visions and the underground-comics revolution

Books From Our Contributors

¿Por Qué?

The works of Paco Ignacio Taibo II offer a one-man walking tour of Mexican history

The Prisoner

Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesia's leading writer, out on tour

Global Entropy

Going blind, can't find mommy, whatever . . .

Marketing Memory

Life after publication

The Entertainer

Ian McEwan, after Amsterdam

An Irishman in Malibu

Novelist Brian Moore has left behind his homeland and dodged celebrity in favor of an independend-minded and highly successful literary life.