LA Review of Books on KCRW

New Nonfiction that Reads like Fiction

KCRW — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:44:00 -0700

Three new books on power and excess read like novels, full of larger than life characters, regular plot twists, conspiracies and connivances, reversals and revelations.

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Three Great Novels from Local Writers

KCRW — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:44:00 -0700

Percival Everett, Marisa Silver, and Alex Espinoza all write about Los Angeles and all have deep ties to Southern California.

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Crying and Doing Nothing

KCRW — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Tom Lutz discusses two nonfiction books on tears and a collection of stories by one of our best known slacker authors.

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Telling Stories

KCRW — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:44:00 -0800

Two important authors kick off book tours here this week, legendary fiction writer Jamaica Kincaid and nonfiction provocateur David Shields.

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A New Nonfiction Scandal

KCRW — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:44:00 -0800

We've had William Frey, Mike Daisy, and John D'Agata, now it's Dave Eggers's turn.

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Jonestown; Sweet Tooth; Exotic Pets

KCRW — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:44:00 -0800

Three new books, one an oral history of one of the most horrific events of the 1970's, and two novels -- one from England and one from Los Angeles.

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Our Dark Places and Our Aesthetic Categories

KCRW — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:44:00 -0700

Two novelists and a literary critic take us from the dark, perverse, and murderous to the zany and cute.

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Hot Spots

KCRW — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:44:00 -0700

Three books from the world's desert regions -- Egypt, the Southwest US, and L.A. itself.

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Coping

KCRW — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 18:03:00 -0700

Three takes on the psychology of over-medication: a history of psychiatry, an exuberant novel full of self- medicaters, and a memoir of recovery on the margins.

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The Story

KCRW — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:44:00 -0700

Three books, three genres, three ways to tell stories of redemption or its impossibility.

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Two Great Novelists

KCRW — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:44:00 -0700

An old master, Richard Ford, and a newly established one, Alix Ohlin, both understand what it means to tell a story.

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Summer Reading

KCRW — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:44:00 -0700

Tom Lutz on engaging summer reads from Southern California writers Steve Erickson, Dana Johnson, Seth Greenland and Aimee Phan.

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17th Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

KCRW — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Tom Lutz previews the 17th Annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, which kicks off Saturday, April 21, at 10am on the campus of USC.

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Antonio Damasio and Paul Cain

KCRW — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:44:00 -0700

LARB's Tom Lutz discusses two new titles: Antonio Damasio's Self Comes to Mind and Paul Cain's The Complete Slayers.

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