What are comics? The Sunday funnies are one thing; franchised superheroes are certainly another. Between World War II...
R. Crumb at UCLA Live
Literary classics can be given new life with new artwork, and the Bible itself has undergone a re-inking or several to...
Local Literary Ladies
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum The Pasadena Museum of California Art kicks off Written in California, its new reading series...
West Hollywood Book Fair
Leave it to 826LA to come up with a book event as clever as the Dead Author Panel, in which writers like Sylvia Plath...
Take Local Authors to the Beach
Well, okay, we really mean take books by local authors to the beach, or wherever you do your summer reading. Here are...
Dictionary Man
Did you catch any of the Scripps Spelling Bee last night? If you did, you might be feeling that your vocabulary is...
Get Ready for Books
Tickets for panels at the LA Times Festival of Books (April 25 and 26) became available today. Tickets are free, but...
Celebrate Verse
There is a time to celebrate just about everything in this country. Among the more obscure celebrations listed in my...
What on Earth?
On Monday, April 6, George Preston, director emeritus of the Carnegie Observatories, talks about that stuff that...