“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"
Los Angeles Review of Books
Eric Lax
01.01.0000 - PresentEric Lax is the author of Conversations with Woody Allen; On Being Funny: Woody Allen and Comedy; Life and Death on 10 West; and The Mold in Dr. Florey’s Coat; and coauthor (with A. M. Sperber) of Bogart. His biography Woody Allen was a New York Times best seller. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Esquire, and the Los Angeles Times. An officer of International PEN, he lives with his wife in Los Angeles. He is also on the board of the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
Comics
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
Angilee Shah
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Jon Wiener
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Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More