Janet Fitch is a Los Angeles native and the author of White Oleander and Paint It Black. Her latest novel is a two-part epic, The Revolution of Marina M. and Chimes of a Lost Cathedral.
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Between Irritation and Oyster: On Bob Blaisdell’s “Creating Anna Karenina”
Janet Fitch is enlightened by Bob Blaisdell’s biographical study of Tolstoy, “Creating Anna Karenina.”...

Remembering Scott Timberg
Los Angeles lost a beloved local writer and his friends remember him....

Radio Hour: Lesley M.M. Blume on Ernest Hemingway, Laura Albert recommends, and Janet Fitch reads
Subscribe on iTunes or Listen to KPFK This week Tom and Laurie talk with Lesley M.M. Blume about her new ...

The Russian Soul: Janet Fitch on Eugene Vodolazkin
"Laurus" is no seamless dream of Russia's past but a very clever, self-aware contemporary novel that nevertheless holds that dream deep in its heart....

Les Plesko, 1954 – 2013
LES PLESKO It is with enormous sadness that I tell you that Les Plesko, one of UCLA Extension Writers’ Program’s ...

VIDEO: The Question of Nonfiction
Six writers talk about truthiness in nonfiction....

The Middle Years: Michael Cunningham's "By Nightfall"
Ah, Middle Age. Ye despised state....
