April 22, 2018
Cockburn for Congress
Leslie Cockburn, author of Baghdad Solitaire, has secured enough delegates to make her the Democratic Party's nominee for the U.S. Congress in Virginia's 5th District.
April 11, 2018
"Thank You, Mr. Trump"
Leslie Cockburn, author of Baghdad Solitaire, explains why she is running for Congress.
April 19, 2017
The Ten Best Santa Barbara Novels
Life in the land of exhausted beauty. We asked A&W author D.J. Palladino to pick his ten favorite novels set in his hometown of Santa Barbara, which is the location for his own novel, Nothing That Is Ours:
April 2, 2016
A Kinship Spanning the Ages
In Among Women: Lives of Challenge, Courage and Faith in Biblical Times, Sister Carol Perry tells the stories of the familiar and the unfamiliar, the powerful and the powerless, the married and the widowed, and the saintly and the sinful women whose lives we cannot ignore.
May 4, 2015
MY FIRST TIME IN HOLLYWOOD!
Author Cari Beauchamp talks about her new anthology Welcome to Hollywood: Stories from the Pioneers, Dreamers and Misfits Who Made the Movies.
May 4, 2015
ROBERT ROPER: TROUBLE IN BERKELEY
A world-famous epidemiologist suspected of serial murder? That has to be a first.
April 14, 2015
VIDEO OF THE SAVAGE PROFESSOR BY ROBERT ROPER
Want a feel for the Berkeley in which Robert Roper's The Savage Professor is set? Check out this video by Geore Csicery and Tal Skloot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqSb44oENo4.
March 21, 2015
Charles Fleming: Hardboiled Hollywood
1947. Movie studios. Tough Guys. Starlets. Murder.
March 21, 2015
A visit to the Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Every independent bookstore in Southern California is unique. But none more so than the Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse in Flintridge La Canada, tucked up against the towering San Gabriel Mountains at the north end of the San Fernando Valley. What makes this bookstore so special is that you can actually see books being made there.