The South African apartheid and the burning of books
It’s been twenty-four years since the apartheid reign in South Africa had been put to rest, and since today is a spooky day, we’re going to talk about another chilling… Read more »
Writing advice from Ray Bradbury
Are you chipping away at that novel but hitting a road block or two? Well, take some top-notch writing advice from the great Ray Bradbury. Among many gems in this… Read more »
Working with Ray Bradbury was “sort of like working in the washing machine of the future”
“The only thing you’re ever gonna own in your life is your work.” So says the great Ray Bradbury—sci-fi visionary, narrator-of-the-future, and Last Interview Series participant—in this little-seen CBC interview from 1968. Bradbury,… Read more »
This is the Soviet Ray Bradbury cartoon you’ve been waiting for
Ray Bradbury: science fiction author, namesake of a patch of Mars, and Last Interview series participant. In 1950, a twenty-nine-year-old Bradbury published There Will Come Soft Rains, which would become one of… Read more »
Why was Ray Bradbury’s home demolished? An interview with architect Thom Mayne
When news broke earlier this week that the Los Angeles home where Ray Bradbury lived for fifty years, the dominant reactions were frustration and grief. Responses on Twitter to a… Read more »
Ray Bradbury’s home in Los Angeles is being demolished
Ray Bradbury’s home in the Cheviot Hills neighborhood in Los Angeles, where the science fiction pioneer lived and wrote for 50 years, is being torn down by the developer who… Read more »
Ray Bradbury’s weird art collection sells for almost $500,000
Ray Bradbury’s strange and somewhat disturbing collection of sci-fi-inspired art sold at auction last week for $493,408. Bradbury, who passed in 2012, revolutionized science fiction writing and was best known… Read more »
Movies you might not have known were written by novelists
Last week saw the highly-anticipated release of the film The Counselor, and since the film hit theaters on October 25th the reviews have been pouring in. Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning… Read more »
Ray Bradbury biographer reveals unfinished manuscript in tribute
In a tribute to Ray Bradbury published on his blog this month, biographer Sam Weller (author of Listen to the Echoes) alludes to an unfinished manuscript the Fahrenheit 451 author was trying to… Read more »
Literary L.A.: 72 suburbs in search of an author
The L.A. Times just unveiled an interactive map of literary L.A., just in case you happen to be there for the L.A. Times Festival of Books. Or, if you’re not, you… Read more »