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Death doula and author Alua Arthur celebrates life in ‘Briefly Perfectly Human’
Alua Arthur wrote the book on really living in the face of dying.
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Why do we eat some animals and love others?
Your culture often means the difference between a creature winding up as your friend – or the food on your plate.
What Michelle Huneven’s novel ‘Search’ says about religion, recipes and Southern California
The Altadena-based writer talks about drawing inspiration from where she's spent most her life, 'I don’t mind being a regional writer. Altadena contains multitudes.'
Susan Straight talks new novel ‘Mecca’ and the interconnected lives of Southern Californians
“Southern California is this huge, sprawling space,” says Straight, “but for my characters, there are all of these connections that come through geography and family.”
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How Joan Didion influenced writers of all identities
Immediately after Joan Didion’s recent death came the critiques and remembrances by other writers. It didn’t take long for me to notice that nearly all the writers given space and...