Carolyn Kellogg
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The 14 best poems or poetry books about L.A.
The 14 most essential L.A. poems or poetry collections, including those by Wanda Coleman, Robin Coste Lewis, Sesshu Foster, Bukowski, Brecht and more. → Read More
The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: Essays
The 13 most essential L.A. essays or essay collections, from Didion and Babitz and D.J. Waldie to Jan Morris, Jonathan Gold and a few rediscovered classics. → Read More
The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: Nonfiction
The 14 most essential works of nonfiction include histories by Kevin Starr, Carey McWilliams, Reyner Banham and, ruling them all, Mike Davis' 'City of Quartz.' → Read More
The 14 best memoir and biography books about L.A.
The 14 essential L.A. life stories, from Hollywood tell-alls to immigrant sagas, hard lives (Luis Rodriguez) and spectacular flameouts (Freeway Rick Ross). → Read More
Down the true-crime rabbit hole with novelist Rebecca Makkai
Makkai, author of "The Great Believers," explains why her followup, "I Have Questions For You," tackles podcasting, murder and boarding school. → Read More
Why Salman Rushdie's new novel 'Victory City' matters
Salman Rushdie, who was nearly killed last summer for his work, has a new novel out, "Victory City." Here's why his writing will endure. → Read More
Review: Cormac McCarthy's 'The Passenger' and 'Stella Maris'
Cormac McCarthy's 'The Passenger' and 'Stella Maris' display his brilliance in full, exploring math, physics and incest in a brother-sister story. → Read More
Hua Hsu on Bay Area friendship, mourning in memoir 'Stay True'
Hua Hsu found his best friend at UC Berkeley -- and lost him soon after. He talks about "Stay True," his new paean to friendship, music and identity. → Read More
In a New York cathedral, Joan Didion is memorialized — as a Californian
At a memorial service Wednesday for Joan Didion, who died in December, Vanessa Redgrave read, nephew Griffin Dunne remembered and Patti Smith sang. → Read More
Bar crawl with 'Dirtbag Massachusetts' author Isaac Fitzgerald
It's easy to lose count of his many lives (and many beers) on a Staten Island bar crawl with 'Dirtbag, Massachusetts' author Isaac Fitzgerald. → Read More
The glamour and the underbelly of the hippest party house in 1960s L.A.
The glamour and the underbelly of the hippest party house in 1960s L.A. → Read More
Why L.A. is the best outdoor reading room in the world
Some people look at Griffith Park and break out the trail shoes. For readers, L.A.'s outdoor spaces are balmy invitations to crack open a book. → Read More
AWP writers conference returns post-pandemic. Some highlights
Writers gathered again, post-pandemic, in Philadelphia for the return of their largest convention. Here's an AWP rundown by the numbers (more or less). → Read More
A Margaret Atwood Q&A on feminism and 'The Wizard of Oz'
The author of 'The Handmaid's Tale' and a new essay collection explains the 'woman problem' embedded within L. Frank Baum's 'Wonderful Wizard of Oz.' → Read More
Margaret Atwood talks of nonfiction book 'Burning Questions'
Margaret Atwood unpacks the essays, speeches and appreciations in her deep and deeply entertaining new nonfiction collection, 'Burning Question.' → Read More
Imani Perry on how the racial sins of the South belong to us all
The writer and Princeton scholar on "South to America," her personal and historical tour of the region, and why so many liberals are wrong about it. → Read More
Norman Mailer is far from canceled. He's history
As Skyhorse announced it will pick up a posthumous essay collection Random House didn't want, it's worth considering what Mailer is. He isn't canceled. → Read More
Gary Shteyngart on new pandemic novel "Our Country Friends"
Over lunch and cocktails, the satirical and melancholy novelist unpacks his raucous new Hudson Valley pandemic-era novel, "Our Country Friends." → Read More
Dave Eggers thinks technology is a little like an obsessive boyfriend
The San Francisco impresario and techno-skeptic delves into the Amazon animus that drove his new novel, 'The Every,' a sequel to dystopia 'The Circle.' → Read More
Review: 'Bewilderment,' new climate novel by Richard Powers
The author of "The Overstory," among other novels that ambitiously blend storytelling and science, takes a more intimate turn with "Bewilderment." → Read More