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Destiny and Desire: A Novel

Carlos Fuentes

One of literature’s masters offers a wild, riveting saga that explores passion, magic and corruption in modern Mexico, mixing ancient…

Revolution 2.0:
The Power of the People is Greater Than the People in Power

Wael Ghonim, Reza Aslan

Wael Ghonim was a little-known 30-year-old Google exec when he launched a Facebook campaign to protest the death of an…

Two Novelists on Memory, Identity, and Place

Percival Everett, Steve Erickson

From a hippie commune in Denver to a city in Ethiopia, these two acclaimed Los Angeles novelists go to great…

From Exile to Home:
Los Angeles Literary Life 1945 to 1980

Lawrence Weschler, David L. Ulin

In the years since World War II, the literature of Los Angeles, like much about the city, has shifted, becoming…

An Evening with Eddie Huang

Eddie Huang, Constance Wu

Constance Wu interviews Eddie Huang about family, food, and broken hearts, and his latest memoir, DOUBLE CUP LOVE.

Viet Thanh Nguyen on Narrative Scarcity

Viet Thanh Nguyen, Maxine Hong Kingston

In this short clip,  Viet Thanh Nguyen describes the narrative economy in which he and other Asian Americans writers are working…

Eddie Huang on Dominant Culture

Eddie Huang, Constance Wu

Chef, food personality, bestselling author of Fresh Off the Boat, and inspiration behind the hit television show of the same…

The Un-Private Collection

Jeff Koons, John Waters

Artist Jeff Koons and filmmaker/author/photographer John Waters discussed Koon’s innovative and ever-changing art making practice, which ranges from sculpture to…

Words Will Break Cement:
The Passion of Pussy Riot

Masha Gessen

Through the trial of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot, Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen, author of PUTIN: THE MAN WITHOUT…

The Warrior’s Return:
From Surge to Suburbia

David Finkel, Albert "Skip" Rizzo

When we ask young men and women to go to war, what are we asking of them? When their deployments…