Summer Heat in Fiction
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eudora Welty, Joan Didion and E. B. White describe how summer heat affects their characters and their environment
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eudora Welty, Joan Didion and E. B. White describe how summer heat affects their characters and their environment
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, author of FAREWELL TO MANZANAR, discusses her classic memoir at the Santa Monica Public Library.
PEN America seeks to protect the First Amendment Rights of journalists by publishing their Online Harassment Field Manual.
John Waters describes his hitchhiking journey across America in CARSICK, conquering his fears by imagining the worst and the best that could happen.
Dig into our interview Susie Bright, editor of the latest addition to the Akashic Noir Series, SANTA CRUZ NOIR, that "further reveals the seedy underbelly of the left coast."
Extraordinary and quite prolific contemporary American writer Alice Hoffman excels in weaving magical realism into her works of fiction; these passages from her novels THE RULES OF MAGIC and BLACKBIRD HOUSE help the reader appreciate how Hoffman builds her literary magic.
HBO's upcoming film, Fahrenheit 451, is certain to be a great film; the great Ray Bradbury novel remains a school classic 65 years after publication.
A collection of THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD quotes from Zora Neale Hurston's masterpiece. These are the passages that most moved one reader and the Literature Book Club whose members read the book together.
A reader revisits her favorite childhood book, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle. The experience was akin to visiting an old and dear friend, who had new things to teach after the years.
How a best-selling author's ex-boyfriend is using threats of public sexual humiliation to win money in a legal settlement against her.
