SHORT TAKES
Duff Brenna on Katey Schultz, and other short reviews.
Duff Brenna on Katey Schultz, and other short reviews.
Tao Lin is an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, and artist. His books include Shoplifting from American Apparel (2009), Richard Yates...
Maggie Shipstead is a novelist and short story writer. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at...
Rob Roberge is the author of three novels, including More Than They Could Chew (2005), and a short story collection, Working Backwards from the Worst...
Mary Otis is the award winning author of the short story collection Yes, Yes, Cherries. Here, we talk to her about her collection, shifting from...
Matthew Specktor is the Senior Fiction Editor at Los Angeles Review of Books and the author of three books, including The Sting and That Summertime...
At the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, we sat down with as many authors as possible to ask not about what books they're currently reading...
Mary Jo Bang is an American poet and author of six books, including The Bride of E, Elegy, and The Eye Like a Strange Balloon. Her work has appeared...
Tom Bissell is a prolific LA-based journalist, fiction writer, video game critic, and author most recently of Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and...
Dan Fante is an American author, poet, and playwright. He is the son of acclaimed novelist John Fante and author of the novels 86'd, Chump Change...
Margaret Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, and critic. She's written The Handmaid's Tale, The Blind Assassin, and Oryx and Crake among many others...
Rachel Kushner is a New York-based writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Believer, Artforum, Bookforum, Fence...