April seems to be film festival month here in Los Angeles. Both the French film festival COLCOA and the Indian Film Festival just ended. The Israel Film Festival is...
If you haven’t read any Bellow yet, you will love it and want to read his oeuvre. If you’ve read several of Bellow’s novels, you’ll find this a most...
Women and power. Women in leadership. No one has talked about these subjects in such an accessible and conversational way as Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook.
Cairo-based journalist Shereen El Feki explores the changing attitudes of sex and intimacy in the Arab world, in her new book, Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a...
Kim Masters, KCRW’s host of The Business, will sit down with Lawrence Wright to discuss his latest book, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief.
Welcome to our 17th season of Writers Bloc Presents. For those of you who have been with us from the beginning, and to those of you who are joining us for the first time, you will see that our mission is simple and straightforward: to bring to Los Angeles our favorite writers and thinkers, to hear and see how they think. The writers who have spent an evening with Writers Bloc have at least one thing in common: they have made a significant impact on our cultural, literary or political landscape.