ALOUD AT CENTRAL LIBRARY
Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 7 pm
A conversation with screenwriter Millard Kaufman, whose debut novel, Bowl of Cherries,was published last year by McSweeney’s. The .mp3 podcast is available at the link above.
Monthly Archives: April 2008
Appearance at the Los Angeles Times 2008 Festival of Books
LOS ANGELES TIMES FESTIVAL OF BOOKS
Saturday, April 29, 2008, 10:30 am
Moderator, A History of Violence, featuring David A. Bell, Mark Kurlansky, Scott Martelle, and Andrew Nagorski. Flash video provided by C-SPAN’s BookTV at the link above.
Real to Reel Conference
REAL TO REEL: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WORLD WAR II
Friday, April 11, 2008, 8:30 am – 10:30 am
Moderator, Hollywood Goes to War: The Battle of San Pietro and the Memphis Belle. A conversation featuring Pulitzer-prize winning author Rick Atkinson and producer Catherine Wyler, daughter of William Wyler.
Recent & Forthcoming Projects
- “Walt Whitman and Photography,” for “click! photography changes everything,” a Smithsonian Photography Initiative (SPI) project, Marvin Heiferman, curator.
- “Leo Braudy’s Favorite Moments of Horror vs. Terror in Film,” The Book of Lists: Horror, eds. Amy Wallace, Del Howison, and Scott Bradley. HarperCollins, October 2008.
- Preface to E.F. Kitchen, Suburban Knights: A Return to the Middle Ages. Book of photographs of the Society for Creative Anachronism. Forthcoming.
- “Secular Anointings: Fame, Celebrity, and Charisma in the First century of Mass Culture.” In Constructing Charisma, eds. Edward Berenson and Eva Giloi. New York: Berghan, forthcoming.
- “From Subjects to Citizens.” In War in the Gender Zone, ed. Drew Gilpin Faust, University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming.
- “Cultures and Communities” In the Blackwell’s A Companion to Los Angeles, eds. William Deverell and Gregory Hise. Oxford: Blackwell’s, forthcoming.