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
Free Period
July 7th, 2012
On the politicization of Wilder, author of 'Little House on the Prairie'
October 10th, 2012
Philip Roth, baseball, and giving up fiction for good
February 9th, 2013
True/Slant: D'Agata the Gambler and the Lifespan of a Debate
December 31st, 2012
What American publication means to Australian writers
June 25th, 2012
During Black October, 67 Aymará were killed by the military while protesting the sale of natural gas to the U.S.
August 26th, 2012
Because riot police aimed their firearms at protesters’ faces, over 80 Egyptians lost one of their eyes.
December 5th, 2011
For every abandoned business, store, school, or church in the city, a new one has been built in the suburbs.
January 16th, 2012
"Why?" is a question that hounds anyone trying to make sense of the violence against women in Guatemala.
March 29th, 2012
Searching for a political meaning in the London "shopping riots."
September 4th, 2011
Once you begin to look for influences, they seem to be everywhere — in the weather, in politics, in literature and art.
August 22nd, 2011
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
