A Conversation with Naomi Klein AT SOME POINT in 1999, I interviewed the author and journalist Naomi Klein about No Logo: Taking Aim at...

Back in April, I had a chance to speak with Cathy Park Hong at our fundraiser--published now to drum up interest in the next Luminary...

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In The LARB Quarterly Issue no. 38, EARTH, I wrote about financial thrillers and how you get people to care about tax loopholes and...

This weekend, LA Review of Books is paying tribute to Mike Davis. Davis was mythically angry, but his work also made a shared history of...

LA RB Film Editor Annie Berke and I spoke with Caleb Zakarin, Assistant Editor of the New Books Network on their podcast and an Angeleno,...

At The Los Angeles Review of Books. In the postwar Fordist compromise, employers needed workers to master their jobs and stick around, at...

I neglected to post this when it happened, but Matt Seybold's The American Vandal podcast gathered me, Sarah Mesle and Aaron Bady to talk...

If you can join us in person in January, I hope you will. Incoming EIC is me. In the LARB newsletter, my friend and the phenomenal...

In November, I flew to New Orleans for The American Studies Association's annual meeting, on the theme The Roof Is On Fire. I got to...

I wrote about Synanon, and a strange set of personal connections I have to the history of that group, for this talk. Fingers crossed I...

I published this essay in Rare Bird Press's anthology of essays about Didion, Slouching Towards Los Angeles: Living and writing in Joan...

The Lit Lit Fair at Hauser Wirth last weekend was super energizing. I spoke at LARB's panel about print and the Quarterly, picked up some...

He has a lot of insight into how nostalgia is its own trap — about what it means to love a city that doesn't know how to handle its own...

It has taken me 25 years, in a way, to write this essay. The past few weeks—scratch that—the past few years have been triggering for many...

(posted in 2020) My brilliant, dashing, loving father, Charles Chihara, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of California,...

A conversation about gig work, all work, listening to workers, and porn, with The American Vandal and Dr. Heather Berg

In Distinktion, Journal of Social Theory, in November I finally published "Radical Flexibility: driving for Lyft and the future of work...

https://marktwainstudies.com/theshush/ My friend and colleague Matt Seybold invited me and Kyla Wazana Tompkins onto his truly excellent...