Jeff Dietrich
"Here in Los Angeles anyone without an automobile is de facto a second-class citizen."
“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Authors
Frank Dikotter
"Understanding the complexity of human behavior in times of catastrophe is one of the aims of the book."
E.J. Dionne
"To me, in a self-governing democratic country, it’s a fundamental mistake to draw an absolute line between government and community."
Michael Dirda
"We turn to books in the hope of better understanding our selves and better engaging with the meaning of our experiences."
Franklin W. Dixon
"'Very funny,' Chet said sourly. 'Har-de-har-har with the Hardy boys.'"
Cory Doctorow
“Science fiction writers are pretty useless as fortune-tellers, but who needs fortune-tellers?"
Timothy Donnelly
"A pity the selfsame vehicle that spirits me away from factories of tedium should likewise serve to drag me backwards into panic"
John W. Dower
"Periodicals that regularly featured accounts of Japanese atrocities gave negligible coverage to the genocide of the Jews."
Authors
Jayne Cortez
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Mike Davis
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Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Genres
Comics
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Literary Fiction
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Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More