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Los Angeles writers on Los Angeles

By Carolyn Kellogg
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Late last year, dozens of Los Angeles writers converged at the Guadalajara Book Fair, which was celebrating the city as its international guest. Zócalo Public Square caught mystery writers Denise Hamilton and Gary Phillips, food guru Jonathan Gold, novelists Mark Danielewski and Luis Rodriguez and even book editor David L. Ulin on video and asked about their favorite books and films about Los Angeles.

-- Carolyn Kellogg

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Carolyn Kellogg

Carolyn Kellogg is a prize-winning writer who served as Books editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years. She joined the L.A. Times in 2010 as staff writer in Books and left in 2018. In 2019, she was a judge of the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Prior to coming to The Times, Kellogg was editor of LAist.com and the web editor of the public radio show Marketplace. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from the University of Southern California.

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