Subtitled an “intimate history,” writer Alex Espinoza tells history intimately indeed — closely, credibly, personally — in his new book, Cruising: An ...

Cultural historian Lisa Duggan has written a small, perfect book which accomplishes so much in only a few pages, with irony and wit, humor and insight...

The poet, naturalist, fiction and nonfiction writer Charles Hood is a friend of this program, and a go-to expert and exemplar of all kinds of writing,...

Susan LeTempa is back, with Volume 3 of her incredible series from Prospect Park Books, Paperback LA:  A Casual Anthology.  This one is, titled, joyfu...

This week my guest on Bibliocracy Radio is the veteran journalist and investigative historian Julia Flynn Siler. In her newest, she tells multiple sto...

Bibliocracy Radio is back after KPFK’s fund drive, celebrating community support for smart books and lively conversation with a show featuring The Com...

This week on Bibliocracy I share my interview with novelist Nina Revoyr, taped at last weekend’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on the campus of ...

What sort of story, and storytelling results from the practice of poetry, autobiography, journalism, photography, political analysis and the imaginati...

This week, Sunday at 5 PM on KPFK 90.7 FM: A celebration of Slaughterhouse-Five. Of all the reasons to share books, reading, literary culture on the r...

My guest this week has written an authoritative, entertaining and critically important collective biography which explains so much of our recent histo...