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A number of writers have begun to exult in print about the uncanny realms where the influences of pulp and pop (comic books, science fiction and fantasy, mysteries, rock & roll) meld with those “higher” and more established echelons of literature
Booking Passage and Crossing Paths
A few years ago at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, I saw an image that summed up the entire festival: Nation editor and publisher Victor Navasky crossing paths on the UCLA quad
The Satirical Intellectual
Alexander Theroux on the paradoxes of love and the importance of plenitude and redemption
Typing in Neon
One author's determination to publish and be damned (maybe for eternity)
Reworking Her Magic
'Lust for Life' plumbs the literary grimoires of Kathy Acker
Site-Seeing
'Hollywood Escapes' is your guide to personal movie-location adventures
Odyssean Task
'The Suitors' delves into Homer's tale for a modern rumination on desire
THE ART OF LIVING AND DYING IN 2005
Reading in the days of ecstasy, awe, accident, disappointment, and magical thinking
YOUR SUMMER 'COVER STORY'
'Tis the season to read ... but why? And what? And where?