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Anne Rice: Interview with the Vampire Killernew

Anne Rice will never write about vampires again. Not even with these tragically hip, newfangled bloodsuckers lurking about, dating high school girls and coming out of the closet, demanding equal rights. She has told enough vampire stories to last her an eternity.
L.A. Weekly  |  Gendy Alimurung  |  12-28-2009  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

He Survived the Pickup-Artist Scene, Now He Wants to Survive the Apocalypsenew

Neil Strauss' own press materials call him "the world's most legendary pickup artist," but his new game is all about learning to survive not dating disasters but actual life-threatening, end-days disasters, an obsession that brings plenty of its own worries.
L.A. Weekly  |  Gendy Alimurung  |  03-20-2009  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

Matt Taibbi on How the U.S. Is Like Ike Turnernew

Taibbi has single-handedly brought Rolling Stone to a place of political relevance not seen since the days of Hunter S. Thompson. His new book is a compendium of his best pieces since joining the magazine in 2005.
L.A. Weekly  |  Matthew Fleischer  |  12-14-2007  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

Between the Lost and the Foundnew

Daniel Alarcon and his novel of the disappeared.
L.A. Weekly  |  Daniel Hernandez  |  03-23-2007  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

Places That Make You Shakenew

Inside the origins of Matheson's novel of addiction.
L.A. Weekly  |  Tom Christie  |  02-12-2007  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

A Full Lifenew

Messud discusses marriage to a critic, diapers and The Emperor's Children.
L.A. Weekly  |  Michelle Huneven  |  08-24-2006  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

Village Musenew

Ali discusses her new novel.
L.A. Weekly  |  Margy Rochlin  |  06-22-2006  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

The Spider and the Waspnew

We speak with John Updike about his Terrorist.
L.A. Weekly  |  Mehammed Mack  |  06-01-2006  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

The Beaver Trapnew

Allan MacDonell survives 20 years at Hustler.
L.A. Weekly  |  Dave Shulman  |  06-01-2006  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

Mean Snacks and Monkey Shitnew

We talk bananas with George Saunders.
L.A. Weekly  |  Alec Hanley Bemis  |  05-11-2006  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

I Am Not a Housewifenew

Even women who can’t stand what Flanagan has to say concede that she’s a terrific writer -- her trenchant wit and breezily fluid prose make Maureen Dowd’s look like the work of a shrill amateur.
L.A. Weekly  |  Ella Taylor  |  04-13-2006  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

Fatherless Manhattannew

Murphy navigates calamity with virtuosic language and bone-dry humor, resulting in a wholly unsentimental but peculiarly hopeful portrait of family love.
L.A. Weekly  |  Michelle Huneven  |  03-09-2006  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

The American Nightmare: Will We Be Eclipsed by the European Union?new

Jeremy Rifkin elaborates on his assertion that the European Union, and not the United States, is the humanist dream factory of tomorrow.
L.A. Weekly  |  Brendan Bernhard  |  09-17-2004  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

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