“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
Authors
Antonio Damasio
"The action of biological drives, body states and emotions may be an indispensable foundation for rationality."
Robert Darnton
“By seeing the way a joke worked in the horseplay of a printing shop two centuries ago, we may be able to recapture that missing element—laughter"
Jasmin Darznik
"A bride, I realized with a start, she'd once been this stranger's bride."
Meghan Daum
"Like a social smoker whose supposedly endearing desire to emulate Marlene Dietrich has landed her in a cancer ward"
Hilary Davidson
Her crime fiction and mystery novels are inspired by her career as a travel writer.
Lydia Davis
“Art is not in some far-off place.”
Arne De Boever
Philosophy/Critical Theory Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Nicholas de Monchaux
"Like a modern bridal gown, the brilliance of the shuttle on her maiden voyage shrouds the complex realities of a human story"
Genres
Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
Angilee Shah
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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
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More