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The Murder behind the Myth: Jayne Anne Phillips talks to MaryAnne Kolton
Jayne Anne Phillips' new novel is based on an actual murder turned myth.
MaryAnne KoltonOct 11, 2013
PODCAST #44: Nick Antosca, "The Girlfriend Game"
Colin MarshallOct 9, 2013
PODCAST #43: Leslie Cockburn, "Baghdad Solitaire"
Colin MarshallOct 1, 2013
Three Questions for Orlando Ricardo Menes
Daniel A. OlivasSep 24, 2013
Three Questions for Alvaro Huerta
As social scientists and public intellectuals concerned with the plight of those on the bottom, Alvaro Huerta says, we need to think big and bold.
Daniel A. OlivasSep 24, 2013
PODCAST #42: Gabe Durham, "Fun Camp"
Colin MarshallSep 23, 2013
As Unclear as Life Itself: An Interview with Cristian Mungiu
Costica BradatanSep 21, 2013
The Dolorous and Beautiful World of Anthony Reynolds
Author and former "Jack" singer/songwriter Anthony Reynolds discusses the intersections between pop music and poetry.
Erik MorseSep 18, 2013
Not Suffer the Suffering Artist: Elissa Bassist Interviews Michelle Orange
When asked to create “a sort of personal crest — a motto accompanied by a representative sketch,” she drew “a gothic tableau of laid out in a coffin. eneath it inscribed the Dean mantra: Live fast, die young, have a beautiful corpse.”
Elissa BassistSep 17, 2013
Sherlockian Girl Goes Wilde: An Interview with Lyndsay Faye
Lyndsay Faye builds on her award-winning first novel with Seven for a Secret, with writing Otto Penzler and others find astonishing.
Nancie ClareSep 15, 2013
PODCAST #41: James Greenberg & James Morrison
Colin MarshallSep 15, 2013
Joan Didion, One Week after 9/11
Didion, on the first plane out of New York after 9/11
Jon WienerSep 11, 2013
The Author Looks Inward: A Conversation with Jonathan Lethem
Acclaimed author Jonathan Lethem, whose latest novel, Dissident Gardens, is published this month, discusses genre and grandmothers, politics and sense of place, language and literary influences with LA Review interviewer Brian Gresko.
Brian GreskoSep 8, 2013
PODCAST #40: Richard Rayner
Richard Rayner discusses Los Angeles with Colin Marshall
Colin MarshallSep 4, 2013
Maximum Bob: An E-Mail Conversation with Bob Shacochis
An extensive interview with Bob Shacochis on the publication of his first novel in a decade.
Askold MelnyczukSep 2, 2013
A Functional Form Has Its Own Beauty: An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson
McKenzie Wark interviews Kim Stanley Robinson
McKenzie WarkSep 2, 2013