Stuttering John Melendez is famous for his crazy hijinks on The Howard Stern Show and later for joining The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. His book Easy For You To […]

Shawna Kenney is the author of I was a Teenage Dominatrix and co-author of Live at the Safari Club. She teaches at UCLA Extension and co-runs a writing retreat in […]

Ben Loory is the author of Tales of Falling and Flying, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day, and The Baseball Player and the Walrus. He has never watched […]

David Ulin is the author of The Lost Art of Reading: Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time and Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles. He edited the Books […]

Matthew Stokoe is the author of Cows, High Life, Empty Mile, and Colony of Whores. We connected years ago when I ran CherryBleeds.com, but this was our first meeting in […]

Seth Greenland is the author of The Hazards of Good Fortune. His other books include The Bones, The Angry Buddhist, and I Regret Everything. Greenland has also worked in TV […]

Alan Black is the author of Kick The Balls and co-author of The Glorious World Cup. He runs The Edinburgh Castle, a pub in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District that tends […]

Glen David Gold is the author of I Will Be Complete and Carter Beats the Devil. Our chat includes San Francisco vs. Los Angeles, punk rock, X, stalking John Doe, […]

Liska Jacobs is the author of Catalina. It’s a really good book and she’s a kick to hang out with. We chat about writing amazing books, craft, misconceptions of Los […]

Mark Haskell Smith is the author of Blown, Heart Of Dankness, Naked at Lunch, Salty and more. He’s a professor at UC Riverside’s Low Residency MFA program and just a […]