Janelle Brown will be reading tonight at Skylight Books @ 7:30pm | Photo by Margo Silver Janelle Brown's debut novel, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, is just out and it's generating serious buzz for its funny, yet painful look at a family that can no longer keep up appearances. Brown will be reading tonight at Skylight Books @ 7:30pm. You moved from the Bay Area to Los Angeles not too long ago. Why......

Gorgeous floral spikes at the Getty | Photo by oscalito via Flickr Monday Stephanie Klein presents and signs Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp 7pm @ Book Soup Tom Zimmerman discusses and signs Paradise Promoted 7pm @ Vroman's Paul Roberts discusses The End of Food with Lisa Brenneis & Bill Fujimoto 7pm @ Central Library Tuesday Jeffrey Lewis presents and signs Adam the King 7pm @ Book Soup Stephanie Klein discusses & signs Moose:......

Any Angeleno worth their salt knows this city can be both bright and happy or sinister and dark by quick turns or subtle steps or shameless spirals. There is much to celebrate about LA and much to shy away from - which makes it the ideal city-as-character in many a writer's novel. A few new books are out that feature LA and they're on our radar to check out this month. Latinos in Lotusland: An......

Thank God for the New York Times and its latest scintillating trend piece, which bravely goes out on a limb to inform readers that as crazy as it may sound, Koi and Republic aren’t the only two restaurants in Los Angeles. What? A New York publication writing arrogantly and stupidly about some aspect of Los Angeles culture? Stop the presses! In her New York Times regional trend essay Los Angeles: Where Stars Are in the......