Los Angeles Review of Books Issue 1

Ben Ehrenreich — The Death of The Book
On Bruno Schulz, Marshall McLuhan, Jacques Derrida, and other bibilionecrophiliacs.

David Shields — Life is Short; Art is Shorter
On the many ways of being a writer.

Laurie Winer — Magicland
On the literary imagination of Glenn Beck.

Joshua Clover — Autumn of the Empire
On Richard Duncan, Robert Brenner, Giovanni Arrighi, and the financial crisis.

Louise Steinman — Yizkor Bukher
A review of Jacob Glatstein's The Glatstein Chronicles.

Lisa Jane Persky — Skin Deep
On literary tattoos.

Geoff Nicholson — Buster Keaton and the World of Objects
Portrait of the artist as a Human Mop.

Jean Stein — Larry Flynt at Home
Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern, and Larry Flynt get into trouble.