Ray Bradbury

The Big Read announces $1 million in grants for 2013-14

2013-05-29 11:02:00

The National Endowment for the Arts announced $1 million in grants for the Big Read projects taking place across the U.S. in 2013-14. The Big Read was launched in 2005 to help create one-city-one-book-style projects; for each title on its list, it...

Fantagraphics’ ’50 Girls 50′ pays tribute to EC Comics sci-fi legacy

2013-04-27 11:13:56

Introducing the Los Angeles Times map of Literary Los Angeles

2013-04-16 09:35:00

Just in time for the upcoming Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, The Times' books staff has created an interactive map of Literary Los Angeles, a work in progress. We’ve gathered passages from more than two dozen books set in and around L.A., as...

'American Elsewhere' finds strange doings in a small town

2013-02-15 08:00:00

The town of Wink, N.M., doesn't appear on any official map, the moon as seen from its streets has a pinkish hue, and very odd things lurk beneath the charm of its old-fashioned fa�ade. The exact nature of those lurking things, human and otherwise, is...

Coachella on the high seas

2012-12-20 06:00:00

The S.S. Coachella cruise is the exact opposite of what the landlocked Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival is for most fans. Imagine what that weekend in Indio would be like without the parking hassles and dehydration, but instead with breakfast in bed...

Stephen R. Covey, '7 Habits of Highly Effective People' author, dies

2012-07-16 16:32:34

'Encyclopedia Brown' author Donald Sobol has died

2012-07-16 16:32:42

An unexpected relationship status update

2012-09-15 00:00:00

It's popular these days to have a love-hate relationship with Facebook … or maybe just a hate-hate. The IPO was underwhelming, and no one likes the new timeline or that annoying ticker that flows to the right of the screen. People worry about how...

‘Doctor Who’: Neil Gaiman’s 2013 episode will feature Cybermen

2012-11-07 12:34:21

Downtown L.A. square to be named for Ray Bradbury

2012-12-06 09:34:18

Our favorite Martians: The red planet, a pop culture history

2012-08-08 11:43:10

Mars rover Curiosity: Stunning panorama from Red Planet

2012-08-23 15:13:08

Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" comes to life on this fictional fire department T-shirt. ()

2012-12-19 16:16:02

In 1933, university students in Nazi Germany burned thousands of books by the likes of Helen Keller and Ernest Hemingway as a means of "cleansing" the "un-German" spirit from German culture.

2012-11-05 00:00:00

Ray Bradbury, author of "Fahrenheit 451" and other science fiction classics, died June 5 in Los Angeles at age 91.

2012-08-13 00:00:00