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  SHORT TAKES

  Duff Brenna on Katey Schultz, and other short reviews....

  LARBJul 19, 2013
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  Tao Lin reads from "Taipei" at Skylight Books

  Tao Lin is an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, and artist. His books include Shoplifting from American Apparel (2009), Richard Yates (2010), and Taipei (2013). Here, he reads from his latest novel Taipei and discusses psychedelic mushroom orgies, the social customs ...

  LARBJul 7, 2013
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  [VIDEO] Maggie Shipstead, "Astonish Me"

  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 Stanford. Her debut novel, Seating Arrangements, was a national bestseller and the winner of the Dylan ...

  LARBJul 3, 2013
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  [VIDEO] Rob Roberge, "The Cost of Living"

  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 Moment of My Life (2010). He's a professor at UCR/Palm Desert's MFA, ...

  LARBJun 24, 2013
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  [VIDEO] Mary Otis, "Yes, Yes, Cherries"

  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 short fiction to the novel, favorite books, and her characters' obsessions.  To see our Festival of ...

  LARBJun 19, 2013
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  [VIDEO] Matthew Specktor, "American Dream Machine"

  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 Sound.   Here, he discusses the Los Angeles, past and present, of his ...

  LARBJun 13, 2013
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  [VIDEO] Festival of Books: Ask the Authors

  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, but about those unshakable few they return to, time and again, for re-reading.  Among ...

  LARBJun 8, 2013
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  [VIDEO] Mary Jo Bang, "The Bride of E"

  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 in New American Writing, Paris Review, The New Yorker, The New Republic, ...

  LARBJun 6, 2013
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  [VIDEO] Tom Bissell and The Perks of Being a Dilettante

  Tom Bissell is a prolific LA-based journalist, fiction writer, video game critic, and author most recently of Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation. Here he talks to us about writing video games, dilettantism vs. expertise, and the enduring cultural import ...

  LARBMay 31, 2013
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  [VIDEO] Dan Fante, "Point Doom"

  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, and Mooch; the short story collection, Short Dog; two books of poetry; the plays The ...

  LARB, Tom LutzMay 29, 2013
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  [VIDEO] Margaret Atwood, "Positron"

  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. Here, we speak with Atwood about her new serial novel, "Positron." Click below for interviews from: RACHEL ...

  LARBMay 21, 2013
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  Rachel Kushner, "The Flamethrowers"

  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, Bomb, and Grand Street. Her debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was a New York Times bestseller and ...

  LARBMay 16, 2013