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Festival of Books: author Janelle Brown
Jacket CopyGracious and funny author Janelle Brown will be at the L.A. Times Festival of Books this weekend. The L.A.-based novelist will be talking about her 2008 debut "All We Ever Want is Everything" and the upcoming "This Is Where We...... -
Bret Easton Ellis talks about his novels and the films they spawned
Jacket CopyThere was a big turnout Sunday afternoon at the Festival of Books session featuring Bret Easton Ellis in conversation with music journalist Erik Himmelsbach. Ellis’ seventh novel, “Imperial Bedrooms,” will be published later this year — the... -
The unfortunate spread of James Frey
Jacket CopyOn Saturday, the French Consulate, with assistance from UCLA's department of French and Francophone studies, presented a day of literature from France and Los Angeles. The events, which were either in English or in French with English translation, were... -
Live Review: Cold War Kids at the Wiltern
Pop & HissOn the new song “Santa Ana Winds,” Nathan Willett of the Long Beach band Cold War Kids invokes another artist fond of bare, venomous depictions of Southern California. “In between is a basin like the great divide, where the 110...... -
Cover Story: Queens of the Lo-Fi Age, L.A.'s emerging female-powered rock scene
Brand XIt's the night after New Year's Eve and hundreds of kids are crammed into the Smell, the downtown DIY tabernacle of the Los Angeles avant-garde. A sweating mass of art students, skate punks and subterranean scene staples ecstatically moshes to a... -
The literary and literal allure of jasmine
L.A. at HomeThis weekend I noticed the first jasmine flowers bursting out of their slender pink buds and was reminded of how I wound up in Southern California. It was a passage in Joan Didion's 1967 essay "Goodbye to All That" that convinced me to move to Los Angeles... -
LATFOB: author and editor Stephen Elliott
Jacket CopyThe L.A. Times festival of books is coming up on April 24-25. As a preview, Jacket Copy is talking to some of the authors who will be there. This week, we heard from biographer Carol Sklenicka, fictioneer Aimee Bender and...... -
Festival of Books: Comedian and author Julie Klausner
Jacket CopyAs a preview for the L.A. Times Festival of Books, coming April 24-25, Jacket Copy is talking to some of the authors you can see there. Comedian and author Julie Klausner -- seen on TV on "Best Week Ever," on...... -
California's calamity in waiting
Kevin Starr is University Professor and professor of history at USC. His latest book is "California: A History."THINKING catastrophically should come naturally in this year of disaster. Instead, most California policymakers have distracted themselves with relatively minor matters, as with the recent special election. Meanwhile, this state remains vulnerable to...Tags: Floods, Pakistan, Sacramento, Dennis Sullivan, Disasters
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As Dynasty Evolved, So Did Power in L.A.
Times Staff WritersIn the days after he paddled into the Pacific to help scatter his father's ashes, 52-year-old Harry Chandler returned to his Hancock Park home and began rummaging through old family papers and photographs. He was looking, in a sense, for his legacy,...Tags: Small Businesses, Invention and Innovation, Justice and Rights, History, Crime, Law and Justice
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Chelsea's rant control
Maybe you were privy to an e-mail that was circulated, perhaps, by Chelsea Clinton this week. According to a post Tuesday by Emily Bazelon of the online magazine Slate, the e-mail's subject heading was "a must read ... send to every woman you know." The...Tags: Hillary Clinton, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Sport Shooting, Justice and Rights, History
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The last true conservative
By common consent, William F. Buckley Jr., who died Wednesday, was the father of modern conservatism. But he also ended up as one of the Bush administration's most trenchant critics. His death not only represents the loss of one of America's leading...Tags: Iraq, Journalism, Iraq War (2003-2011), Nazi Party, George W. Bush
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