L.A. Interchanges: A Brown & Queer Archival Memoir

<h4>Tom Zoellner is the author of five nonfiction books, including Train: Riding the Rails that Created the Modern World. He is the co-author of The New York Times bestselling book An Ordinary Man, and his book Uranium won the 2011 Science Writing Award from the American Institute of Physics. His writing has appeared in Harper’s, The Atlantic, Time, Foreign Policy, Departures, The Wall Street Journal, Men’s Health, the Oxford American, and many other places. A professor of English at Chapman University, he lives in Downtown Los Angeles.</h4>

Tom Zoellner

Leaving Your Lane: A Conversation with Lydia Otero

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

The Road to Unforgetting: Detours in the American South, 1997–2022

The Gravitas of the South: A Conversation with Pete Candler

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa

Art &amp; Architecture

Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime

Darkness of Hearts: On Anjan Sundaram’s “Breakup”

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia

Play Me Some Mountain Music: On Emily Hilliard’s “Making Our Future”

Republicans and the Purple Crayon: How to Fix Partisan Gerrymandering in Wisconsin and Elsewhere

Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia

“Which Stranger Are You?”: On Gregg Mitman’s “Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia”

Freewaytopia: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles

Mulholland

Roads to Everywhere

The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups

A State of Unwholesome Fermentation: On William J. Bernstein’s “The Delusions of Crowds”

Aida Baghernejad is a freelance cultural journalist, moderator, and podcaster who writes and speaks in German and English about music and food for all kinds of regional, national, and international publications. She is co-host on the English-language podcast 55 Voices of Democracy from the Thomas Mann House and Los Angeles Review of Books and founder and host of the podcast Pasta &amp; Politics, produced in collaboration with Edition F. In 2019, she received the International Music Journalism for the best German-language text of the year, was nominated for the Listen to Berlin Award in the journalism category in 2019 and 2020 and for the Alternative Media Award in the power category in 2021. Mostly she lives in Berlin, sometimes in London, but mostly on the internet.

Aida Baghernejad

“Nation-Building Is No Mean Task”: A Conversation with Khin Zaw Win

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America

The WPA Guides as a Literary School

Going to Trinidad: A Doctor, a Colorado Town, and Stories from an Unlikely Gender Crossroads

He Loved Everyone in Trinidad: On Martin J. Smith’s “Going to Trinidad”

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

Gender &amp; Sexuality

Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad

The Rwanda Myth

Tom Zoellner is the author of five nonfiction books, including Train: Riding the Rails that Created the Modern World. He is the co-author of The New York Times bestselling book An Ordinary Man, and his book Uranium won the 2011 Science Writing Award from the American Institute of Physics. His writing has appeared in Harper’s, The Atlantic, Time, Foreign Policy, Departures, The Wall Street Journal, Men’s Health, the Oxford American, and many other places. A professor of English at Chapman University, he lives in Downtown Los Angeles.

Tom Zoellner

Articles