• Where I’m Calling From: Philip Seymour Hoffman, 1967-2014

    Today on the blog we revisit a piece from LARB Channel Avidly on the passing of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, in …

    Notes to a Visiting Author: “Make This Thing Worth Your While!”

    Photo: Chapel Hill local and YA author Sarah Dessen at a reading at Flyleaf Books Flyleaf Books is located in …

    To Die and Live in Studio City

    By Alex Harvey Back in 1939, Aldous Huxley’s first Californian novel, After Many a Summer Dies The Swan, satirized the …

    Bastille Day in Beverly Hills: The Revolution, Televised

    Photo: Ernest and Celestine, New Video Group, 2014 Today’s post was originally published by LARB Channel Marginalia.  By Ted Scheinman We were …