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Bella Gaia at Cal Tech

April 24, 2017 by Scott Timberg

[contextly_auto_sidebar] About a week ago, I saw something called Bella Gaia at Cal Tech's Beckmann Auditorium. I'm still not sure what it was. (At the very least, this was a film with live dancers and musicians in some places.) Overall, it struck me as a cross between a '70s planetarium show, Koyaanisqatsi, and a Thievery Corporation concert. I'll very much look forward to whatever … [Read more...]

Robinson Jeffers and Big Sur

September 8, 2009 by Scott Timberg

"NO major American poet has been treated worse by posterity than Robinson Jeffers," poet/critic dana gioia wrote in 1987, lamenting the lack of scholarly attention, an up-to-date selected poems, or a full-dress biography of this california writer who was once read voraciously and still inspires environmentalists. a few things have changed since then, but the great poet of california's central … [Read more...]

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

March 2, 2009 by Scott Timberg

TODAY i'm wishing a happy 105th to one of the greatest writers this country has known, and one i've come to appreciate more as i've revisited him for the sake of my son. (i only regret that the good doctor did not have the good fortune to be born an aquarius.) there are many wonderful authors for little kids -- lucy cousins, eric carle, byron barton, ezra jack keats -- but for an adult who loves … [Read more...]

GREAT OVERLOOKED NOVEL

January 15, 2009 by Scott Timberg

Over the last couple years i covered books, mostly novels, almost exclusively, and there's no way anyone can read everything. but let me call james howard kunstler's "world made by hand" my favorite undersung novel of '08, or something along those lines. the book is the tale of a little village in upstate new york in a world suspiciously like ours, but after resources have run out almost entirely. … [Read more...]

FIRST POST: BACK FROM THE DEAD + NYT

January 7, 2009 by Scott Timberg

Hi Gang, I'm glad to report that after a period of enforced silence I'm back with a few stories I'm proud of.Here's the first, a New York Times piece on a 70s cult novel called "Ecotopia."The novel is not as well written or nuanced as Ursula Le Guin's "The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia," which by coincidence i reread at about the same time (that is tough company)... but it's a "novel of ideas" … [Read more...]

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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