On Michael Heizer's large-scale LACMA installation
February 15th, 2013
On Naguib Mahfouz's 'Karnak Café'
August 15th, 2012
On the Los Angeles Proust Project Meetup
May 29th, 2013
"The Ghost of Books: Past, Present, and Future" is an experiment not in terror and not necessarily Dickensian.
December 23rd, 2011
Navel-gazing with a social purpose
September 4th, 2012
A Roundtable (Part 1)
June 14th, 2013
A Roundtable (Part 2)
June 15th, 2013
Harrison Gray Otis: a biography in progress.
July 15th, 2011
Our sit-in 46 years ago was a guerrilla raid; this is Wall Street under siege by the Lilliputians.
October 21st, 2011
"Los Angeles became a carnival of repression."
April 30th, 2012
The parallels between 'The Pilgrim's Progress' and the 'Book of Mormon'
October 30th, 2012
On the life and legacy of a champion boxer
March 21st, 2013
Because riot police aimed their firearms at protesters’ faces, over 80 Egyptians lost one of their eyes.
December 5th, 2011
"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
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
