AltWeeklies Wire
3rd Degree: John Deannew
The author and onetime Watergate figure on the crimes of Bush, the real Dick Cheney, and Nixon as environmentalist.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Steve Appleford |
10-19-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Broken Government, John Dean
Phantasmagoric Landscapes Haunt Denis Johnson's New Novelnew
Tree of Smoke, the author's seventh novel and his first since The Name of the World seven years ago, offers all manner of characters with turbulent and twisted psyches in a Vietnam that resembles a sort of historical fugue state.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Anthony Miller |
09-28-2007 |
Fiction
3rd Degree: Ehrhard Bahrnew
The German Literature professor on his new book, and why L.A. is a great place for modernists.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Max D. Baumgarten |
07-27-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
The Boy Who Lived Onnew
With tears and laughter, Harry Potter comes to an end.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Natalie Nichols |
07-27-2007 |
Fiction
3rd Degree: Peter Wardnew
The scientist on climate change, mass extinctions, and other crazy global-warming consequences.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Mindy Farabee |
07-13-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Peter Ward, Under a Green Sky
An American Hymnal for Gastronomesnew
American Food Writing samples culinary history through sumptuous prose.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Anthony Miller |
06-29-2007 |
Nonfiction
3rd Degree: Peter Singernew
The noted bio-ethicist on Jean-Baptiste Oudry, animal liberation, and jailing animal activists as terrorists.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Dean Kuipers |
06-01-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Peter Singer
3rd Degree: Michael L. Weinsteinnew
The former White House counsel on dominionists in the military and the threat to our Constitution.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Dean Kuipers |
05-24-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Hot Type: Summer Book Reviewsnew
Sailing the seas of summer reading.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Anthony Miller |
05-18-2007 |
Books
3rd Degree: Benjamin R. Barbernew
The noted political theorist on the dumbing-down of adults, faux needs and saving capitalism.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Mindy Farabee |
05-11-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Megaton Megalomanianew
Real weapons of mass destruction come back to haunt a world hungry for peace.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Frank Kosa |
04-27-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
A Wild Imaginationnew
The Israeli writer tells strange and riveting tales in The Nimrod Flipout.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Anthony Miller |
04-06-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Etgar Keret, The Nimrod Flipout
Battlegroundsnew
The U.S. of Vertigo Comics' new graphic novel is a tattered remnant of its former self, but it stubbornly, even savagely, clings to the trappings of the culture we have now.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Natalie Nichols |
03-02-2007 |
Fiction
3rd Degree: Max Bootnew
The conservative foreign policy analyst on Bush's "surge," fighting insurgency, and why the Democrats matter.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Mindy Farabee |
02-02-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Max Boot, War Made New
Hunter S. Thompson Was Wrongnew
Strange rumblings from the Gonzo afterlife ... Ralph Steadman ink stains and battle scars ... the suicide solution ... an outlaw's farewell, a son's revenge.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Steve Appleford |
01-02-2007 |
Books
