Erika Schickel is an essayist, humorist, book critic, playwright, solo performer, teacher, columnist and the author of You’re Not the Boss of Me: Adventures of a Modern Mom. Her writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The LA Weekly, LA City Beat and Bust Magazine has been collected into several literary anthologies. Her 1997 radio drama Wild Amerika was produced by LA Theatre Works for “The Play’s the Thing” and Erika continues to perform one-woman shows and readings around Los Angeles in addition to writing the “I On LA” column for LA Observed.com.
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
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"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
