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Sister Aimee and her Angelus Temple have come to epitomize the chicanery that marked L.A. religion 1920s-style. In her heyday, McPherson he...

22. The Slap  by Christos Tsiolkas I don't know the name for this genre - suburban realism? a la Tom Perrotta? - but I always enjoy it...

"There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it." - George Bernard Shaw T...

Not too long ago, someone asked me to make a mix of 20 of my favorite songs. In no particular order, here they are. Happy Thanksgiving! Th...

14.  Bluets  by Maggie Nelson I love what Maggie Nelson is doing with prose. Bluets doesn't have the macabre power of Jane: A Murder ,...

"The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you." - Nancy Astor I would have been in serious trouble if...

Check out more Echo Park/Silverlake photos from Paul Furlong's collection . Check out more Bunker Hill photos from George Mann .

"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it." - Mar...

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"There are years that ask questions, and years that answer." - Zora Neale Hurston Can you j udge a book by its cover ? The 50 Best...

"Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a li...

Skylight has been kind enough to post a recording of the reading here .

"No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one." - Elbert Hubbard It's true - Tim Tykwer is adapting C...