"As for characterization, I have made my people rather “characterless” for the following reasons:   The word  character  has com...

In all the author evenings I attended for the PEN USA EV Fellowship, the idea that now more than ever the impetus is on the writer to promo...

I was at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books this past weekend. It's at USC now (I miss the times when it was at UCLA, when the w...

I've been obsessing with this clip every since I stumbled upon the GIF of this scene on my new favorite (albeit strange and perverse) bl...

They have everything your bones ache for. You want to consume them. You want them to be your friend. Your mother. Your father. Your lover. Y...

I looked for inspiration and when I found it, it looked annoyed. “What do you want from me?” Inspiration said. “The usual,” ...

Julius Shulman I don't think of traffic, or smog, or Hollywood or the vain and vapid people who make the city intolerable at times. ...