James Frey

How Pasquale Rotella Built His Rave Empire

The man behind EDC is not going away, felony charges be damned

Charlotte au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood

Reading Charlotte Silver's new memoir, Charlotte au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood is like being in an art museum, gazing at images of another time and place. And that's what Silver, 31, had in mind when she wrote this remembrance of her early years growing up in her mother's four-star ... More >>

There's No Center Like PEN Center

Turning a Negative Into a Positive

Three new photography exhibits explore the accidental artistry of pre-digital techniques

I Am Number Four

Stage Raw: Loveland

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater Feature on La Razon Blindada and A Wolf Inside the Fence and NEW REVIEW GO LOVELAND ​Photo by Leland Auslender What a rare experience it is, when a character that's as maniacal, sexually overheated and as transparently off the rails as a ... More >>

Stage Raw: Voombodian Women from Outer Space!

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater FEATURE on Happy Ending and WaterVOOMBODIAN WOMEN FROM OUTER SPACE! Staged reading of Barry Schwam's new play at Sierra Madre Playhouse, 87 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., in Sierra Madre. Sun., 7:30 p.m. $5 (626) 355-4318 AN EVENING WITH PAT BOONE, ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Something to Crow About, Waiting fr Lefty and more

Stage Raw: Waiting for Lefty

NEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater FEATURE on Neighbors, at the MatrixNEW REVIEW GO WAITING FOR LEFTY ​Photo by Thomas MikuszThis dynamic 1935 one-act launched the career of playwright Clifford Odets, became an important social document, and solidified the reputation of the Group Theatre. Seeing it now, ... More >>

The Tyranny of the New

Why the future of books might be old books

Been There. Done What?!

Jillian Lauren opens up about her life as a teenage harem girl in Brunei

I Am Ozzy: Soon-To-Be Classic Quotes from Ozzy Osbourne's Upcoming Autobiography

​There are some amazing sentences in Ozzy Osbourne's new autobiography, I Am Ozzy. In fact, the book starts off with a classic disclaimer: Other people's memories of the stuff in this book might not be the same as mine. I ain't gonna argue with 'em. Over the past forty years I've been loaded ... More >>

Reporter, Examine Thyself: The Night of the Gun

David Carr fact-checks his own life with unflinching seriousness . . . and that's the problem

Fake Memoirist Channels Sherman Alexie

Margaret Seltzer's untruths and consequences

Sherman Alexie on Margaret Seltzer

Margaret B. Plagiarizin'? A little over two years ago, in the midst of the Oprah/James Frey fiasco, I wrote an expose called Navahoax that outed award-winning "Navajo" memoirist Nasdijj as being Tim Barrus -- a middle-class white guy from Lansing, Michigan, who was also a failed writer of gay porn ... More >>

The Life and Death of JT LeRoy

Lies and follies of Laura Albert

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

No exit plan

The Meat Puppets' Magic Brother Missing

Cris Kirkwood returns from the near dead, and the Meat Puppets are back

Faking It

Hallström’s Hoax isn’t fully committed to the con

Film Reviews

Barnyard, Brothers of the Head, The Night Listener and more

Poor, Solitary, Nasty, Brutish and Short

Chris Abani and the literature of suffering

Pellicano's Rat Pack

Loose lips and sinking ships

Un-a-Frey-ed of the Truth

Truth to Oprah Power

Memoir and Mystery

Bernard Cooper’s Bill From My Father

Emotional Truth & Brother Leader

Navahoax

Did a struggling white writer of gay erotica become one of multicultural literature’s most celebrated memoirists — by passing himself off as Native American?

Free James Frey!

In defense of the post-truth memoir

A Christmas Caroline

This Christmas, I had hoped to fly back to London, gorge myself on Mum's turkey and sip sherry with my long lost Brit posse. But Fate, it turned out, had other plans in store... 24 hours before my Christmas Eve flight was due to depart, I wandered in to a psychic's den on Hollywood Boulevard in Lit ... More >>

Pit Bulls and Tigers and Bears — Oh My!