December 2012
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Do Epigraphs Matter? by Rachel Sagner Buurma
Excerpt from noir masterpiece Lament in the Night (1925) by Shoson Nagahara
Let Us Eat Cake: On the UC system’s new logo by Aaron Bady
Threat Level: Against Homeland by Richard Beck
Earth, Under Repair, Forever by Kim Stanley Robinson
A Gruesome ‘Sabbath’: Roth’s Vile, Brilliant Masterpiece by Matthew Specktor
What Happened...
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Silly Theory (Or, the Second Time as Farce) by J.A. Stein
Pomp and Exceptional Circumstance (How Students are Forced to Prop up the Education Bubble by Malcolm Harris
Five Reasons to Read Edith Wharton by Claire Miye Stanford
The “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marks
Twilight on the Tundra by Julia Phillips
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THE LARB FUND DRIVE'S GREATEST HITS: Evan Kindley...
It’s odd now to reflect that Maria Bustillos’s first appearance in the pages of the Los Angeles Review of Books was as the object (or maybe it’s better to say “catalyst”) of a lengthy critique by Sven Birkerts. Maria — who, unbeknownst to any of us at the time of the publication of Sven’s piece, is a native daughter of Los Angeles — has since become one of our...
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THE LARB FUND DRIVE'S GREATEST HITS: Kate Wolf on...
I was more than intrigued when Erik Morse proposed a series of interviews about the legacy and theory of hotels in this city. Beyond my personal recollections of happily eating grilled cheese sandwiches with my grandparents at the coffee shop counter in the Beverly Hills Hotel when they visited from the East Coast when I was a kid; or gazing at the hulking remains of the Ambassador Hotel before...
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Thank You: The LARB Fund Drive Crosses the Finish...
All week, the Los Angeles Review of Books has been raising money to help us stay strong in 2013. We were challenged with a matching grant that would get us to $20,000. Today we reached that goal, and in fact we exceeded it, thanks to you.
We are deeply grateful to all of our sponsors, including:
Cinefile, City Lights, Green Apple, Iconoclast, Obvious State Literature-Inspired Fine Art Prints,...
November 2012
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THE LARB FUND DRIVE'S GREATEST HITS: Clarissa...
The Fairy Tale Project, as we’ve come to know it at LARB, was conceived in collaboration with Young Adult Section Editor Cecil Castellucci. We were both very excited by the idea of studying the lasting resonance of these ancient stories, which snuck like stowaways through the centuries, hiding in the nurseries during the dark ages, when stories about sex and romantic love were shunned....
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Attention Angelenos: Support Your LARB Today
We have a final giveaway for our LA-based readers, generously donated by Cinefile Video: a Gold Membership, which includes 10 free rentals. Peruse the best selection of films (new releases, Criterion favorites, etc.) and support a legendary LA spot with a $50 donation to LARB.
Every dollar you give directly supports our ongoing mission to publish the best that is thought, written, painted or...
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Chris Ware Prints Get a Good Home
Matt M. made the donation that put us over the top for our Wednesday fundraising goal. He’ll receive this one-of-a-kind “blue line” proof from Chris Ware’s Building Stories. When we told Matt the good news he emailed to say, “I’m happy to support the Los Angeles Review of Books bringing book reviews and discussion into the 21st Century. I appreciate the variety of...
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THE LARB FUND DRIVE'S GREATEST HITS: Jonathan Hahn...
When I learned that Jon Wiener was publishing a collection of interviews with Gore Vidal, I could think of no better person to review the book than Michael Kammen. The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian is not only one of the great cultural archivists of our time, he has also weighed in on Vidal’s work and legacy on multiple occasions. My hope was to create a dialogue of sorts between these three...
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THE LARB FUND DRIVE'S GREATEST HITS: Lisa Jane...
Byron Coley and I just missed one another at New York Rocker and L.A Weekly but I’ve long appreciated his work and hoped for a chance to do something together. Last year, it occurred to me that Ed Sanders new book, Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side couldn’t be better served than by Byron. Coley has...
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Graphic Design: Now in Production
Julia Lupton interviews her twin sister Ellen Lupton, a curator of “Graphic Design: Now In Production,” on view through January 6, 2013, at the Hammer Museum. Here’s an excerpt:
But design in California goes beyond movies, malls, and theme parks, and you’ll see oppositional and artisanal kinds of work in the show as well. In the late 1990s, for example, Dave Eggers famously deployed his...
