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2020 LA Times Festival of Books: Week 2 Preview

Posted on October 27, 2020 by Casey Lewis

MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2020 Marlon James, Author of “Black Leopard Red Wolf”, Winner of the Inaugural Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, in Conversation with Tananarive Due 6:00pm “Marlon James, winner of the inaugural 2019 L.A. Times Ray Bradbury Prize … Continue reading →

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2020 LA Times Festival of Books: Week 1 Review

Posted on October 26, 2020 by Casey Lewis

Happy Monday Beat Fam. We hope you had a great time last week participating in the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Let us know your thoughts on your event(s) in the comments below! Keep an eye out later today … Continue reading →

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2020 LA Times Festival of Books: Week 1 Preview

Posted on October 18, 2020 by Casey Lewis

Happy Sunday, L.A.! This morning the Los Angeles Times and the University of Southern California will push forward with the LA Times Festival of Books. In honor of the festival’s 25th anniversary, organizers have arranged twenty-five virtual events featuring an … Continue reading →

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The Ultimate Autobiographical Interview with Mrs. C: Marion Ross’ “My Days: Happy or Otherwise”: From Bogie and Bacall to TV Mother of us All!!!

Posted on February 28, 2019 by Jennifer K. Hugus

Marion Ross: Upon conjuring her image, one might primarily envisage a most neatly coiffed raven up do, grounded by a commensurately elegant petticoated skirt under a full body apron, and the all-around genteel vintage American allure of the most feminine … Continue reading →

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Photo Essay: LA Times Festival of Books

Posted on April 29, 2017 by Elise Thompson

The sun was shining mightily on the LA Times Festival of Books last weekend. There were countless interviews and panels to attend, but that wasn’t the whole show. Writers signed books, vendors plied their wares, and chefs demonstrated their specialties. Oh, … Continue reading →

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LA Times Festival Of Books: Emerging from the Underground: Surviving Punk Rock

Posted on April 26, 2017 by Bob Lee

The LA Times Festival Of Books is a highly anticipated event for this town’s literary types, but this year’s edition brought an onslaught from a strange new subgenre of author – the punk rock memoirist. While Dave Grohl interviewed his … Continue reading →

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Book-Ness with K.P.-Ness: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

Posted on July 22, 2016 by K.P. Rennie

“We all need to create the story that will make sense of our lives.” – “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City,” by Nick Flynn I will often choose a book based on the title or the dedication alone. With this … Continue reading →

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Book-Ness with K.P.-Ness: The Adderall Diaries

Posted on July 15, 2016 by K.P. Rennie

This is the story of a book → that was made into a movie → that was made into a movie about making the movie → and the film festival that was started because of the movie about the movie.  … Continue reading →

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Book-Ness with K.P.-Ness: Chuck Palahniuk

Posted on July 1, 2016 by K.P. Rennie

Here are two more suggestions from my “List of books I have read more than once, from authors I adore.”  These are by Chuck Palahniuk, author of “Fight Club” and many other books. “CHOKE” Chuck Palahniuk holds a special place … Continue reading →

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Book-Ness with K.P.-Ness: “Diary of a Teenage Girl”

Posted on June 24, 2016 by K.P. Rennie

Phoebe Gloeckner’s “Diary of a Teenage Girl” is “An Account in Words and Pictures” of Minnie, a fifteen-year-old who is having an affair with Monroe, a 35-year-old man who is also her mother’s lover. What makes this story so different from … Continue reading →

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