Letter from Berlin
September 16th, 2012
“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Life in the Anthropocene: Washing Down Our Taste for Oil
Bayou towns are still feeling the effects of the BP spill two years later.
September 15th, 2012
Literary Lout: Martin Amis Once Again Faces the Critics
A look at his past work and his newest novel, 'Lionel Asbo: State of England'
September 12th, 2012
Levine y yo: In Praise of Poet Philip Levine
On the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet
September 2nd, 2012
Letter From Bolivia: Waiting With the Aymará
During Black October, 67 Aymará were killed by the military while protesting the sale of natural gas to the U.S.
August 26th, 2012
LARBlog: Castellucci’s Class Notes
Free Period
July 7th, 2012
Letter from Australia
What American publication means to Australian writers
June 25th, 2012
Letter From Guatemala
"Why?" is a question that hounds anyone trying to make sense of the violence against women in Guatemala.
March 29th, 2012
The Lyrical Essay
The moment came when the essay began to confuse itself with the article…
March 18th, 2012
Living with Linsanity
Racial difference was an integral part of Linsanity since the beginning and, as the phenomenon grew, the issue would continue to snowball.
March 6th, 2012
Life in Storage: Of Capitalism and A&E's "Storage Wars"
On the American culture of accumulation, and the author's addiction to A&E’s "Storage Wars."
February 4th, 2012
Letter From Detroit
For every abandoned business, store, school, or church in the city, a new one has been built in the suburbs.
January 16th, 2012
Love, Boxing, and Hunter S. Thompson, Part 1
His last words to me as he opened the door and stepped into the hallway were: "Feel free to use any of this in the script."
January 15th, 2012
Love, Boxing, and Hunter S. Thompson, Part 2
I decided to get high.
January 15th, 2012
L.A. Woman
What truly sets Babitz apart from L.A. writers like Joan Didion or Nathanael West is that a part of her still buys the Hollywood fantasy.
December 18th, 2011
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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
Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Charles Yu
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Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
Comics
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More