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Cari Beauchamp was a Hollywood film historian and acclaimed author who was a fixture at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.

It's the band's 1991 hit, "Under the Bridge," from album 'Blood Sugar Sex Magik' that made the Red Hot Chili Peppers what they are today.

This year’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the annual literary event in Los Angeles, includes a stellar lineup of UC Riverside authors. UCR faculty and alumni will be participating in this literary festival, which takes place at the University of Southern California April 22-23. More than 500 authors, poets, artists, chefs, celebrities, and musicians will participate in this year’s festivities.  Tickets: events.latimes.com 

Do you want a satire fiction author that will keep you up late at night? Don't look too far! This article highlights 20 masterful authors like Carl Hiaasen.

After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books has returned in person to the USC campus Saturday for a two-day...

After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books has returned in person to the USC campus Saturday for a two-day...

The international Chowdhury Prize in Literature, presented by USC, Kenyon College and the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Foundation, will go to a midcareer writer.

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The days of Ancient Greece may have been the golden age of Democracy, but for comic playwrights, it was the age of ‘Rude Talk’. Mixing history, literary criticism, and dirty jokes, Mark Haskell Smith pays tribute to a slew of forgotten Greek writers in his latest book ‘Rude Talk in Athens’ that will feed the intellect as well as tickle the funny bone. 0 Shares

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