Photographer Janna Ireland turns her lens toward the extraordinary legacy of architect Paul R. Williams, illuminating a career that reshaped Los Angeles through residences, churches, civic buildings, public housing, and glamorous homes designed for Hollywood figures. The conversation offers an intimate visual exploration of Williams’ artistry and the lasting influence of the first AIA-certified Black […]
Book Soup presents David Duchovny in conversation with Jerry Stahl for an evening centered on Duchovny’s debut poetry collection, About Time: Poems. The deeply personal collection moves through themes of mortality, memory, identity, and family, with Duchovny’s relationship with his father emerging as one of its most intimate and recurring threads. Known across acting, directing, […]
Author and editor David L. Ulin joins Ivy Pochoda at Skylight Books to discuss American Flash Fiction: An Anthology, an expansive collection devoted to the art of telling complete and resonant stories in remarkably small spaces. Bringing together 100 pieces spanning more than 160 years, the anthology explores how writers across generations have used compression, […]
Authors and longtime tech-worker organizers Clarissa Redwine and JS Tan discuss Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry, an inside account of the rise of the tech-worker movement and the backlash it triggered across Silicon Valley. Drawing on firsthand organizing experience and years of research, the book traces campaigns against military […]
Bobby Finger and Lindsey Weber, hosts of the pop-culture podcast Who? Weekly, bring their sharp and irreverent perspective on celebrity to Harmony Gold for a discussion of I Want to Be Famous. The book examines how fame works in the digital era, from social media and algorithmic visibility to the strange new hierarchy separating instantly […]
Author Amy Fusselman celebrates her new novel Cloud Six, a hilarious and moving story about a married couple who die in a plane crash and unexpectedly wake up in the lowest tier of heaven. Guided through a strange afterlife by a rabbit skeleton and confronted by a bizarre demon landlord, Mam and Bunko try to […]
Author Matthew J. Prigge discusses Dog’s Day: The True Story of a Bank Robbery, Gay Liberation, and Toxic Love That Inspired a Hollywood Classic, the stranger-than-fiction account behind the 1972 Brooklyn bank robbery later dramatized in Dog Day Afternoon. The book revisits the story of John Wojtowicz, whose failed heist became a national spectacle and […]
Award-winning author Laleh Khadivi joins Edan Lepucki to discuss Female Life on Planet Earth, a darkly funny and emotionally precise novel about a daughter whose grief is transformed when she discovers that the mother she thought she knew had a hidden and unsettling past. After Ana’s death, Heti receives mysterious photographs that force her to […]
Journalist and author Sam Quinones presents Our Lady of the Angels, a photographic and cultural portrait of the Virgin of Guadalupe across Los Angeles. The project traces how her image has moved beyond churches and religious spaces into streets, storefronts, murals, and neighborhood walls, where she has become a powerful symbol of protection, identity, migration, […]
National Book Award winner William T. Vollmann discusses A Table for Fortune, his monumental four-volume, 3,000-plus-page novel spanning more than half a century of American politics, war, family, and personal upheaval. Moving from the Cold War through September 11 and the War on Terror, the book blends archival history with an intimate family saga centered […]
Washington Post reporter Emily Yahr joins Sarah Rodman to discuss Taylor Swift: The Debut Years, an intimate look at the Nashville chapter that shaped one of the world’s biggest pop stars. The book follows a teenage Swift as she learns to navigate songwriting rooms, record labels, industry gatekeepers, and the competitive country-music world while developing […]
Author and journalist Eric Hendrikx joins actor Tommy Flanagan for a conversation about Motorcycle Life: Stories, Wisdom, and Obsession from Riders Around the World, a visually rich exploration of the people and passions behind motorcycle culture. Built from interviews with more than 100 riders around the world, the book moves across actors, racers, builders, designers, […]
