Jon Wiener

Jon Wiener is a professor of history emeritus at UC Irvine. His most recent books are Set the Night on Fire: L. A. in the Sixties, co-authored with Mike Davis, and Historians in Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower. He is a contributing editor to and on the board of directors of Los Angeles Review of Books, a contributing editor to The Nation, and host of a weekly afternoon drive-time interview show on KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles.

Articles

Writing About L.A. in the Sixties with Mike Davis
Jon Wiener remembers working with the incomparable Mike Davis.
Jon WienerNov 11, 2022
“Street Cop” and Cartoon Controversies: A Conversation with Art Spiegelman
Jon Wiener speaks with Art Spiegelman on his latest illustrations, lockdown, and not looking for controversy (but finding it anyway).
Jon WienerSep 7, 2021
- Comics
We Need a New Federal Writers Project: A Conversation with David Kipen
Jon WienerJul 23, 2021
Set the Night on Fire
LARB presents an excerpt from Mike Davis and Jon Wiener"s "Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties."
Jon Wiener, Mike DavisApr 14, 2020
- History
- Politics
Avital and Nimrod: Sexual Harassment and “Campy Communications” at NYU
Jon Wiener examines the Avital Ronell scandal, and questions some of Avital's defenders about how their opinions have changed.
Jon WienerAug 20, 2018
Remembering Robert Silvers: An Interview from the Archives
In remembrance of Robert Silvers, the Los Angeles Review of Books republishes this 2013 interview with the late NYRB editor.
Jon WienerMar 22, 2017
- Nonfiction
Hillary’s Biggest Decision
Jon WienerOct 28, 2016
Greil Marcus on Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize
Is it literature: who cares?
Jon WienerOct 22, 2016
- Literary Criticism
- Music
Trump's Art of the Deal and Roy Cohn: “Always Hit Back”
Roy Cohn’s advice to Donald Trump.
Jon WienerOct 20, 2016
- Politics
Decommissioned Words: An Interview with Richard Ford
Don’t say hydrate when you mean drink.
Jon WienerDec 7, 2014
- Fiction
“Drop the Pen!”: An Interview with Laura Poitras
In January 2013, Edward Snowden reached out to Laura Poitras. He signed his emails “Citizenfour.”
Jon WienerOct 23, 2014
I Hate Genre: An Interview with John Banville/Benjamin Black
Jon Wiener talks with John Banville about Benjamin Black.
Jon WienerMar 15, 2014
When Nixon asked Haldeman about Philip Roth
Nixon pardoned Lt. Calley for massacring 22 men, women, and children in Vietnam, and came out against abortion the same week. Philip Roth responded.
Jon WienerJan 25, 2014
My Favorite Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy Theory
Who killed Kennedy? His evil father!
Jon WienerNov 20, 2013
You Don’t Need a Weatherman
Bill Ayers whitewashes his own history yet again.
Jon WienerOct 29, 2013
Joan Didion, One Week after 9/11
Didion, on the first plane out of New York after 9/11
Jon WienerSep 11, 2013