Janet Fitch is a Los Angeles native and the author of White Oleander and Paint It Black. Her latest novel is a two-part epic, The Revolution of Marina M. and Chimes of a Lost Cathedral.
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What It Means to Wander
Janet Fitch takes a tour of “Ways of Walking,” a collection of essays edited by Ann de Forest....
Between Irritation and Oyster: On Bob Blaisdell’s “Creating Anna Karenina”
Janet Fitch is enlightened by Bob Blaisdell’s biographical study of Tolstoy, “Creating Anna Karenina.”...
Remembering Scott Timberg
Los Angeles lost a beloved local writer and his friends remember him....
The Russian Soul: Janet Fitch on Eugene Vodolazkin
"Laurus" is no seamless dream of Russia's past but a very clever, self-aware contemporary novel that nevertheless holds that dream deep in its heart....
Les Plesko, 1954 – 2013
LES PLESKO It is with enormous sadness that I tell you that Les Plesko, one of UCLA Extension Writers’ Program’s ...
VIDEO: The Question of Nonfiction
Six writers talk about truthiness in nonfiction....
The Middle Years: Michael Cunningham's "By Nightfall"
Ah, Middle Age. Ye despised state....
