The Bradbury Era
Bradbury addresses every reader with a fatherly clarity. He’s instructive, in the profound sense of passing experience on.
June 11th, 2012“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Books That Made Us: James and The Giant Peach
May 31st, 2012
Between the Georges
He seemed poised at last for the first-class recognition he had worked for so vigorously his whole life.
December 4th, 2011
Books That Made Us: The Phantom Tollbooth
The adventure in The Phantom Tollbooth doesn’t change; it’s the meaning we find in it that evolves.
November 17th, 2011
Brumaire
On Occupy Cal and the fight over public education in California.
November 13th, 2011
The Battle of the People's Kitchen
At first I was skeptical about Occupy Riverside. But the more I heard about what was going on downtown, the more enthusiastic I became.
November 13th, 2011
Big Tent
As the tent city grows, a community has sprouted, igniting human interaction in ways that are often anathema to Los Angeles’s sprawl.
November 12th, 2011
Be Thou the Voice
So it is with memoir; the facts take a backseat to the truth of memory, to the quality of feeling.
September 8th, 2011
Books That Made Us: Charlotte’s Web
Sometimes a book comes along and you feel so lucky that somebody pressed it into your hands to read that you read it right away.
August 24th, 2011
Black Blood: Ross Macdonald and the Oil Spill
An offshore oil platform stood up out of its windward end like the metal handle of a dagger that had stabbed the world and made it spill black blood.
April 22nd, 2011
Buster Keaton and the World of Objects
Given the choice between a book and a baseball bat, there is no choice for Buster. He’ll take the bat every time
April 19th, 2011
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