Joseph Lapin

When I moved to Los Angeles a year ago, I swore that I would never be caught dead on a celebrity-homes tour. I couldn't care less whether the Kardashians lived in a mansion with an infinity pool or a gingerbread house constructed by sugarplum fairies. The buses cruising the streets......

"Good-bye crowbar and ski mask. Hello computer and offshore account." --Nick Santora, Fifteen Digits. Fifteen Digits, Nick Santora's second novel, is one of those stories where you're rooting for the main character, Rich Mauro, to stop falling into a spiral of crime and self-destruction. And you'll think from the first......

"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 will be released on......

"A poetry reading is like a painting," Philip Levine says in regards to his upcoming reading in downtown Los Angeles. "Somebody asks you, 'What do you hope to accomplish with that painting?' Come on." He starts to laugh. "You want it to be admired. ... I go there with my......

"In L.A., people high-five, which is weird," says Todd Zuniga. "In Paris, people just look dourly at everyone. Then they don't have sex with you." Dressed in a gray suit and a red tie, Zuniga is standing before a packed crowd at sports bar Busby's East, bantering with co-host Melinda......