William Faulkner

5 Great Restaurant Bars in Los Angeles

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (coming out Oct. 3), we'll be bringing you periodic lists of some of the best things we've found to eat and drink around town. Ice cream sandwiches and bowls of tsukemen, fish tacos and dan dan mian, cups of boba and glasses of booze. Read on. Are you th ... More >>

Venice Update: Kelly Reichardt's Night Moves, James Franco's Child of God, and More

Musso & Frank: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

You're Talking Crazy Now

Sex Farce Meets Diplomacy in Mutually Assured Destruction; Solo Show Mental Creatures Explores Artistic Ambition

The Jacksonian With Ed Harris and Bill Pullman, at Geffen Playhouse

Is Musso & Frank the True Crossroads of Hollywood and Literature? Richard Schave Wants to Find Out

Simone PazRichard Schave with wife Kim Cooper at Musso & Frank​At Hollywood's Musso & Frank Grill, legend has it, giants of American literature -- Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, William Saroyan, Dorothy Parker, Nathanael West, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, Charles ... More >>

6 HBO David Milch Faulkner Adaptations We'd Like to See (With Suggested Casting)

Famed television writer and former Yale English instructor David Milch announced this week that he's agreed produce some of William Faulkner's works for HBO. There's no word yet on what he'll do, but he's clearly got a lot to work with -- nineteen novels, a hundred plus short stories, and some scree ... More >>

L.A.'s Best Cocktails

Our 55 favorites and where to find them

William Eggleston, Superstar

So much more than a "poet of the mundane"

Somewhere, Under the Rainbow

Randy Newman's Harps and Angels, and NET's L.A. Micro-Fest

Yellow: Salvation Complex

Del Shores' sentimental new comedy-drama

CAN'T WE JUST ALL AGREE THAT L.A. SUCKS? (EXCEPT FOR YOU, HOLLYWOOD BOWL)

Where to Drink Now: The New Cocktailian's Guide

The New Cocktailians

The farmers market–loving, sleeve garter–wearing ladies and gentlemen of the bar taking over L.A.'s restaurants one glass at a time

Stage Raw: You've Come to the Right Place

Heath Ledger's Final Days Among the Masses

L.A. Art Collective Struggles to Go On After Actor's Death

Edna O'Brien: Ireland's Other Literary Heavyweight

Author's life has inspired comparisons to her novels' passionate protegées

Discovering Jandek: his oeuvre & some typical Jandek jams

The sounds Jandek documents on his records are clearly intentional, yet it'd be nearly impossible to argue those sounds provide anything more than a voyeuristic peek into one man's unhinged psychic rollercoaster. What are we supposed to think of ugly music that remains ugly no matter how much we lis ... More >>

Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Curse of the Fuku

Jack Pendarvis' Your Body Is Changing

Sons of FIRPO: Jack Pendarvis and his not-so-lovable losers

Burial in the Sky

Hunter S. Thompson goes up in smoke

London Falling, Hollywood Calling

Rupert Thomson’s Divided Kingdom and Daniel Fuchs’ L.A.

Cain Is Not Abel

Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog at the Taper

Watch Them All Fall Down

Domino dancing to communism’s collapse

Writing Los Angeles

When the city joined the literary conversation

A Rose for Michael

Robbie Conal Imagines Trent Lott

The Contender

Director Alejandro González Iñárritu, from Mexico to Hollywood

Complex Oedipus

Rita Dove spins Sophocles’ tragedy into a Great American Saga

Bloody Mama

A hard-boiled classic resurfaces

Justice

Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, Dorothy Dandridge and lawman Bill Tilghman

Musso & Frank Grill

Why You?

Writing about race

Fulfillment

A Publishing Memoir

Liver

And the end of being hip