AltWeeklies Wire
The New Gay Romance, By and For Straight Womennew
One evening, a small crowd gathers at the Hustler Hollywood store on Sunset Boulevard for a reading of James Buchanan’s new romance novel, Personal Demons. In the book, a gay FBI agent is about to make love to his boyfriend, an LAPD officer.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
12-18-2009 |
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The Year in Reading About Foodnew
When I look over at the nightstand, taking quick inventory of what I've been reading over the last few months, the pile is depressingly salted with books on the death and dying of the ocean.
L.A. Weekly |
Jonathan Gold |
12-19-2008 |
Books
Infinite Loss: David Foster Wallace and the Troublesome, Inescapable 'I'new
"Was he a good writer?" asked the young sales clerk at Borders.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
09-19-2008 |
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Tags: David Foster Wallace, obituaries
Fake Memoirist Channels Sherman Alexienew
Margaret Seltzer's untruths and consequences.
L.A. Weekly |
Matthew Fleischer |
03-14-2008 |
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Bukowski's Ruin?new
Claim that the author was a Nazi sympathizer delays effort to save his bungalow.
L.A. Weekly |
Matthew Fleischer |
11-26-2007 |
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Inside L.A.'s Indie Booksellersnew
Like Darwin's finches, the city's booksellers have found niches and creative ways to stay alive in a tough business and an even tougher town.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
05-18-2007 |
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The Fearless Personal Inventorynew
Urban archaeology and the pleasures of mortification.
L.A. Weekly |
Joshuah Bearman |
12-11-2006 |
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Sex in the Age of Ironynew
Whip-smart women dominate in a call girl's memoir, Belle de Jour, and Shelley Jackson's novel, Half Life.
L.A. Weekly |
Nathan Ihara |
07-13-2006 |
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Crazed Catholicsnew
Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code is a work of fiction, but it makes sense of an absurd and chaotic world -- people like that, and they respond.
L.A. Weekly |
Greg Burk |
05-18-2006 |
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Octavia Butler, 1947-2006new
Butler's work was grounded in the reality of a grim, racist Pasadena that Jackie Robinson, another native son, hated and never wanted to return to.
L.A. Weekly |
Jervey Tervalon |
03-02-2006 |
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