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Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Spotlight
In writing novels, Jessica Jones' Krysten Ritter gets to explore the psychology of the "unlikable characters" she's famous for onscreen
Krysten Ritter has played complicated women like Jessica Jones onscreen, but it's in her novels that the actress gets the chance to "dive" even further
Jules Chin Greene
Somewhere Beyond the Sea author TJ Klune "lowkey wants magic to be real" - until he can make it happen, he writes magical realism
At the LA Times's Festival of Books, Klune explained why writing magical realism has been an important exercise for him since he was young
Jules Chin Greene
The abundance of reality TV on platforms like Netflix comes with an immense dark side: a lack of basic worker protections
At the LA Times's Festival of Books, The Bachelorette's Rachel Lindsay and Emily Nussbaum of The New Yorker discussed the harmful structures behind reality TV
Jules Chin Greene
To go on ABC dating show The Bachelor, you have to pass an all-day psychological evaluation from a studio-appointed psychologist
At the LA Times's Festival of Books, Rachel Lindsay revealed the rigorous process that contestants on The Bachelor must go through to get cast on the show
Jules Chin Greene
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In writing novels, Jessica Jones' Krysten Ritter gets to explore the psychology of the "unlikable characters" she's famous for onscreen
Krysten Ritter has played complicated women like Jessica Jones onscreen, but it's in her novels that the actress gets the chance to "dive" even further
Jules Chin Greene
Somewhere Beyond the Sea author TJ Klune "lowkey wants magic to be real" - until he can make it happen, he writes magical realism
At the LA Times's Festival of Books, Klune explained why writing magical realism has been an important exercise for him since he was young
Jules Chin Greene
The abundance of reality TV on platforms like Netflix comes with an immense dark side: a lack of basic worker protections
At the LA Times's Festival of Books, The Bachelorette's Rachel Lindsay and Emily Nussbaum of The New Yorker discussed the harmful structures behind reality TV
Jules Chin Greene
To go on ABC dating show The Bachelor, you have to pass an all-day psychological evaluation from a studio-appointed psychologist
At the LA Times's Festival of Books, Rachel Lindsay revealed the rigorous process that contestants on The Bachelor must go through to get cast on the show
Jules Chin Greene
Even as Hollywood's book-to-screen pipeline intensifies, novelists feel like "the Amish" in Los Angeles, says Danzy Senna
At the LA Times's Festival of Books, Danzy Senna shared some amusing insights about working within Hollywood as both a screenwriter and a novelist
Jules Chin Greene
No, you're not imagining things: Gen Z is shaking up how reality shows like The Bachelor function within our world
Unlike older generations, Gen Z contestants on shows like The Bachelor were brought up on a diet of reality TV
Jules Chin Greene
Krysten Ritter's next novel will be a "psychological thriller" that plays more with characters who are "bad" people
Krysten Ritter will stay in the vein of her Jessica Jones character with the next novel she's writing
Jules Chin Greene
Nnedi Okorafor says her new novel Death of the Author "most personal autobiographical work" yet, while still being her trademark science fiction and fantasy
At the LA Times's Festival of Books, Nnedi Okorafor broke down how her new book, Death of the Author, blended elements of her life from a high-achieving Nigerian American family
Jules Chin Greene
For Krysten Ritter, what's the difference between writing a novel and acting? Beyond the obvious, not much
At the LA Times's Festival of Books, Krysten Ritter broke down how her career as a novelist differs from her work as an actress in shows like Marvel's Jessica Jones and Breaking Bad
Jules Chin Greene
There's an urgency to writing queer genre fiction today says The House in the Cerulean Sea author TJ Klune: "We have to speak up"
TJ Klune, the writer of The House in the Cerulean Sea and The Bones Beneath My Skin shared inspiring words relevant to the dark times we live in at the LA Times's Festival of Books
Jules Chin Greene
ABC's The Bachelor can't be saved from its "archaic form" unless it adapts to audience tastes, says former Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay
At the LA Times's Festival of Books, Rachel Lindsay from The Bachelor and The Bachelorette pointed out the elements that make ABC's dating show, well, dated
Jules Chin Greene
Hollywood isn't in the market for original movies or TV shows, so Marvel's Jessica Jones star Krysten Ritter is creating her own as books first
Krysten Ritter has revealed that her turn from acting to writing novels has been the result of Hollywood's adverse relationship with original material
Jules Chin Greene
