Saturday, May 9




Crossover stars shouldn’t be products

This weekend, the writer behind "Mean Girls" and "30 Rock" and the recent winner of the SAG and Golden Globe awards for best comedic actress is going head-to-head with two stoners and Neil Patrick Harris. Tina Fey tackles her first leading lady role in "Baby Mama," out this Friday along with "Harold and Kumar 2." Read more...


Write or wrong?

For the first time in its 13-year history, the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books will focus on the writing process. Read more...


Q&A with Tobias Wolff

As one of the nation's leading short story writers, Tobias Wolff is a man of few words, though his prose is never sparse or airy. Read more...


Soundbite: Cut Copy

A popular Internet meme of early 2008 featured a seemingly unnewsworthy Australian TV report on a destructive house party thrown by Corey Worthington, a charmingly laconic Melbourne teenager adorned with self-proclaimed "famous" sunglasses. Read more...