Paul Teetor

Starting at 6 a.m. Tuesday, Los Angeles will be Irish for a day. The rest of the year, not so much. While Los Angeles has several Irish organizations like the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Brothers of St, Patrick, there is no Irish enclave similar to Chinatown, Koreatown or Mariachi......

Books by children of Hollywood stars are an established literary genre with two basic subgenres: Mommy/Daddy was an abusive, selfish monster (Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Bing Crosby) or Mommy/Daddy was a saint who never did anything wrong (Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn). Now Robert Crane has invented a third subgenre, albeit......

If the many memorable sentences that F. Scott Fitzgerald scribbled in his too-short lifetime, none has worked itself into American received wisdom as much as this line from his novel The Last Tycoon: “There are no second acts in American lives.” Yet that is precisely what Fitzgerald attempted to do......

Richard Pryor was a bad-ass motherfucker who could handle his shit onstage or on screen like a champ. But unfortunately for him and those around him, he was a drug-addled shit-storm in real life. That, in the street-smart terms Pryor famously used, is the fascinating story Scott Saul tells in......

There are more than half a million Iranians living in L.A., which is why it is sometimes referred to as Tehrangeles. It's also why The Luminous Heart of Jonah S. should be required reading for anyone who thinks The Shahs of Sunset — that inexplicably popular reality show featuring shallow,......

Hector Tobar, much like the miners he writes about, successfully surmounts two huge obstacles in his new nonfiction masterpiece, Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free. The first hurdle is that, since the disaster at the......

Peter Mehlman’s first novel, It Won’t Always Be This Good, is not the post-Gatsby, Great American Novel that we’ve all been waiting for — the story that captures the hopes, the fears, the rhythms and resentments of a younger generation. But it is something almost as noteworthy: the Great American......

In the beginning, Greg Glassman created the workout known as Fran: 21 thrusters, followed by 21 pull-ups, then 15 of each, then nine of each. Then he vomited. And it was good — like breathing fire. Thus the essence of CrossFit was born: high-intensity, full-body movements that obliterate the distinction between......