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Scott Timberg

Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles, CA, United States

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  • Zócalo Public Square
  • Salon.com
  • Al Jazeera English

Past articles by Scott:

Fascism is on the minds of book buyers — and publishers are taking notice

College students, book buyers and publishers are taking a renewed interest in the bad old days of interwar authoritarianism, as well as books about threats to the present. Several scholars have started a crowd-sourced website called the New Fascism Syllabus. → Read More

Andrew Bird’s ‘My Finest Work Yet’ isn’t afraid to celebrate discomfort

The new album’s inspiration is politics, especially issues around gun safety and climate change, which have been focused by the arrival of Bird’s young son. But here, too, he doesn’t want to do things the obvious way. → Read More

Former Everything but the Girl singer Tracey Thorn finds creative inspiration in ordinary suburbs

English musician Tracey Thorn, best known as half of the band Everything but the Girl, shares how growing up in the suburbs exposed her to the post-punk scene who were interested in "deconstructing the image of the pop star." → Read More

How the 2020 presidential campaign is causing election-year uncertainty — and excitement — for book publishers

Book publishers are consumed with excitement, anxiety and uncertainty about what the 2020 presidential campaign year will deliver. → Read More

The slightly twisted vision of Edward Carey and his imagined Madame Tussaud

In 'Little,' author and illustrator Edward Carey spins the somewhat mythic tale of Madame Tussaud, a petite orphan who survived the French Revolution creating waxworks — “She’s the tiny girl you’d go to if you needed a severed head on a pike” — before founding her famous museum. → Read More

The 2008 economic crash hit L.A.'s cultural institutions hard. 10 years later, many are bouncing back — and thriving

How have L.A.'s cultural institutions and arts community endured a decade since the 2008 financial meltdown? It’s been a period of great institutional abundance, growing cultural confidence, and a staggering cost of living, especially for the artists who make it all happen. → Read More

Choreographer David Roussève shines a light on Duke Ellington's unsung arranger Billy Strayhorn at a REDCAT premiere

Choreographer David Roussève presents a work inspired by Billy “Sweet Pea” Strayhorn, who wrote such hits as "Take the 'A' Train, "Chelsea Bridge" and "Lush Life" for Duke Ellington’s orchestra, but was a relatively unknown African-American gay man living in Harlem in the '40s to the '60s. → Read More

J.C. Gabel's indie press gamble, Hat & Beard

The L.A.-based independent publisher Hat & Beard Press, run by the irrepressible J.C. Gabel, has a business plan as unusual as its art books. → Read More

Composer Max Richter wants fans to spend the night in Grand Park

Max Richter, the composer and keyboard player for two all-night performances of "Sleep" this weekend in Grand Park, doesn’t even care if the audience stays awake. → Read More

Eels' Mark Oliver Everett disputes the 'sad band' tag: 'All I’ve tried to do is reflect life'

Mark Oliver Everett of the Eels has been in something resembling hibernation for the last four years, largely dropping out of the music career that’s sustained him for a quarter century. He talks about this and more. → Read More

Mariachi opera sings an immigrant's tale of love and loss, in potent political times

"Cruzar la Cara de la Luna" has the pleading duets about yearning and loss, the lonely arias of memory and romance — all the usual bits one expects in traditional opera, but with one key difference: a musical language that's more Mexico than Italy. → Read More

A master pop interpreter, Bryan Ferry shares his secret — to approach a song 'the way jazz players do'

Ahead of his appearance at the Hollywood Bowl, Bryan Ferry reflects on a restless career, from Roxy Music to jazz bandleader. → Read More

Cécile McLorin Salvant looks for the contradictions in jazz

In her own work, young jazz singer Cecile McLorin Salvant looks at modern heartache and independence with a sound steeped in tradition. → Read More

Historian Kevin Starr Was an Affectionate Connoisseur of California's Contradictions

California has had many chroniclers—some critics, some boosters, some cheerleaders, some dour polemicists. It’s only natural that a vast state defined by its extremes—political, geological, economic, and otherwise—would rarely be portrayed from the center. But one of the paradoxes of the Golden State is that the greatest historian of California, someone who absorbed the writing of previous… → Read More

Leave it to Cory Doctorow to imagine a post-apocalyptic Utopia

It's clear that Cory Doctorow's novel 'Walkaway' is about ideas, alternatives and imagining a better near-future → Read More

Shakespeare died 401 years ago, but original scripts from his era live on in a new digital archive

On Sunday, the Folger Shakespeare Library will open the Digital Anthology of Early English Drama, which includes centuries-old scripts and images by the likes of Christopher Marlowe. → Read More

Finding the music in Beckett, the drama in Schubert: Let the L.A. Phil's experiment begin

Los Angeles Philharmonic: Staged readings of short Beckett plays will be interspersed with Schubert lieder sung by, among others, rising soprano Julia Bullock → Read More

30 years after his death, James Baldwin is having a new pop culture moment

The late, great African American writer James Baldwin is the literary man of the moment, 30 years after his death, including the Oscar-nominated documentary "I Am Not Your Negro." → Read More

Shepard Fairey on street art: “It has the ability to reach people who are not a captive audience”

The artist talks about a new book about a New York street-art event, Obama and fighting corporate control → Read More

Words act like wild animals: “We don’t understand that no language could ever sit still”

Salon speaks with Columbia University linguist John McWhorter about his lively new book "Words on the Move" → Read More