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Scott Timberg on Creative Destruction

Book Events

I’ve got a handful of readings and discussions behind Culture Crash. Here they are.

January 13: LA Central Library, ALOUD series, Los Angeles (Full/Stand by)

January 17: Politics and Prose, Washington, D.C.

January 21: McNally Jackson, New York City

March 1: Powell’s City of Books, Portland

March 15: Skylight Books, Los Angeles, with Janet FitchCultureCrash Evan cover

April 18/19: LA Times Festival of Books/ USC, Los Angeles

There will be at least one more West Coast event.

I urge you to buy my book from your favorite local independent bookstore; you can also order it from Powell’s of Portland, here.

Scott Timberg

I'm a longtime culture writer and editor based in Los Angeles; my book "CULTURE CRASH: The Killing of the Creative Class" came out in 2015. My stories have appeared in The New York Times, Salon and Los Angeles magazine, and I was an LA Times staff writer for six years. I'm also an enthusiastic if middling jazz and indie-rock guitarist. (Photo by Sara Scribner) Read More…

Culture Crash, the Book

My book came out in 2015, and won the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award. The New Yorker called it "a quietly radical rethinking of the very nature of art in modern life"

I urge you to buy it at your favorite independent bookstore or order it from Portland's Powell's.

Culture Crash

Here is some information on my book, which Yale University Press published in 2015. (Buy it from Powell's, here.) Some advance praise: With coolness and equanimity, Scott Timberg tells what in less-skilled hands could have been an overwrought horror story: the end of culture as we have known … [Read More...]

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