Los Angeles’s Liberty Hill Foundation will honor Walter Mosley with its Upton Sinclair Award on May 20. Mosley, author of more than thirty books, is celebrated worldwide for his Easy Rawlins mysteries. Set in inner-city Los Angeles after World War II, they feature an out-of-work black war veteran who reluctantly becomes a private detective and [...]
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST “The Goldman Sachs scandal has done the unthinkable,” says HAROLD MEYERSON of the Washington Post op-ed page: “It’s made it possible that legislation reining in Wall Street’s casino may actually be enacted.” But the odds are still against real reform –And the problem isn’t just Republican [...]
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST L.A. Times Festival of Books Preview: DAVID ULIN, book editor of the L.A. Times, talks about BookFest highlights, including his own sessions with Dave Eggers and Elif Batuman. BookFest schedule, info HERE. Tickets required but free from Ticketmaster: HERE. My session: “Does the American economy have [...]
Stephen Ambrose, the best-selling historian who wrote or edited more than a dozen books about Eisenhower as general and president, based his fame in large part on what he said were his interviews with Ike – but now, eight years after Ambrose’s death, an official at the Eisenhower Library in Abeline says the interviews never [...]
A prominent British historian has found a new way to get in trouble: Orlando Figes, a historian of Stalin’s Russia at Birkbeck College, London, and a contributor to the New York Review, has admitted that his wife has been publishing hostile comments about rival historians at Amazon.co.uk under a pseudonym. The practice of using a [...]
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST From the Center for Obama Studies at KPFK: DAVID REMNICK, editor of The New Yorker, talks about his new book The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama. He’s speaking Thursday at 7:30pm at the Writers Guild Theatre, 135 S. Doheny Dr., Beverly Hills– tickets [...]
LISTEN ONLINE TO THIS SHOW – SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Only one State Department official has resigned in protest over our war in Afghanistan: MATTHEW HOH. Now he has been awarded The Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling. At a time when Afghanistan was still looked at as the “good war,” Hoh came forward, publicly and at great [...]