Curious readers got a glimpse behind the art of creating literature when Carlos Ruiz Zafón visited MOCA for a Zócalo Public Square event on May 24.
Zafón, who splits his time between Barcelona and Los Angeles, is the author of the New York Times bestselling The Shadow of the Wind, the recently published The Angel’s Game, [...]
UCLA Live’s “Titans of the Graphic Novel” event brought two highly influential voices of graphic narrative to the same podium on April 23. The effect was startling and instructive.
Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic and the syndicated strip Dykes to Watch Out For, said it best: Words and pictures are, when combined, [...]
Harvey Pekar and Alison Bechdel will speak at UCLA Live’s “Titans of the Graphic Novel” event on Friday, April 23, at 8 p.m. at Royce Hall. They will explore the power of graphic novels as a confessional medium.
Pekar’s autobiographical “American Splendor” comics gained a cult following and were adapted into a 2003 feature film with [...]
Jeffrey Compton, Executive Editor of a new book called “Arts America: Enjoying the Best Art Museums, Theater, Classical Music, Opera, Jazz, Dance, Film, and Summer Festivals in America,” offers up some tips for Culture Spot readers, both LA residents and visitors.
Los Angeles is a one of the great cultural centers of the United States [...]
In the heyday of Kindle and Google Books, print literature often goes the way of the handwritten letter – which is to say, the digital way. Narrow Books, owned and operated by LA locals Christopher Lepkowski and Mark Dischler, goes the way of literary art.
With bindings and paper to give a stationery enthusiast goosebumps, titles [...]
The film adaptation of his Coraline is Oscar-nominated for Best Animated Feature Film, his Graveyard Book won 2009’s Newbery Medal, and his bees won him a blue ribbon for honey in the county fair. Neil Gaiman, ladies and gentlemen, is a talented man.
During his appearance at UCLA Live on Feb. 4, Gaiman assured the audience [...]
What are comics? The Sunday funnies are one thing; franchised superheroes are certainly another. Between World War II and the rise of television, a pastiche of super-heroism and sexy, gory pulp fiction made the heyday of widely read comics, but the period was quickly censored into obscurity.
R. Crumb, UCLA Live’s most recent literary guest, is [...]
Literary classics can be given new life with new artwork, and the Bible itself has undergone a re-inking or several to appeal to new, or younger, audiences. “The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb,” though – “all 50 chapters!” brags the cover – is not illustrated for kiddie appeal. God’s wrinkled brow and the [...]
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
The Pasadena Museum of California Art kicks off Written in California, its new reading series co-sponsored by Vroman’s Bookstore, on Thursday, Oct. 22, at 7 p.m. Sarah Shun-lien Bynum will read from “Ms. Hempel Chronicles,” a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award. “Ms. Hempel Chronicles” is a novel-in-stories about a seventh-grade English teacher [...]
Leave it to 826LA to come up with a book event as clever as the Dead Author Panel, in which writers like Sylvia Plath and Henry Miller will discuss current issues in literature. That is just one of the hundreds of events scheduled as part of the eighth annual West Hollywood Book Fair on Sunday, [...]
