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Highlights from the LA Times Festival of Books
The Festival of Books has nonstop programming happening in 13 conversation rooms and on nine stages. In an ideal world I would have been in multiple places at once, but am instead constrained by the...
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Literary Los Angeles: Against not-entirely inaccurate stereotypes
Los Angeles is a large city. I suppose this comes as no surprise–we talk about it often and show its wide expanses in film and television, and yes, books. I often think of Joan Didion and her...
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A Literary Long Weekend in Los Angeles
Los Angeles still comes to mind for most as a place of palm tree-lined streets, movie stars, and perhaps, a cultural wasteland. In a vastly diverse city of millions, those images have their space, but...
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Bookselling in the 21st Century: When Your Store is a Photo Op
We joke at The Last Bookstore, where I work, that we signed on to work at a bookstore, but ended up working at an amusement park. During the summer and the weeks of school breaks in spring and winter,...
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The World’s Most Beautiful Bookstores, Gathered in One Place
The first thing I noticed upon entering Livraria Lello in Porto, Portugal was its famed staircase. Curvy and red, it rises from the floor as if by magic. Word has it that J.K. Rowling herself was...
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Finding Octavia Butler’s Pasadena
Some of Octavia E. Butler’s Los Angeles can be found in her fiction: Kindred has characters who live in Altadena, Parable of the Sower begins in a post-apocalyptic wasteland version of L.A., and Mind...
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