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Being Frank: My Time with Frank Zappa

Being Frank: My Time with Frank Zappa

Nigey Lennon

Expanded From The Original Classic

Since his untimely death from prostate cancer in 1993, the legend of iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa has continued to grow. The decade following his...

Bread and Hyacinths: The Rise and Fall of Utopian Los Angeles

Bread and Hyacinths: The Rise and Fall of Utopian Los Angeles

Paul Greenstein, Nigey Lennon, and Lionel Rolfe

Exciting and well reviewed biography of Job Harriman (1861-1925), socialist attorney who challenged the power of General Harrison Gray Otis, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, was almost...

Fat Man on the Left: Four Decades in the Underground

Fat Man on the Left: Four Decades in the Underground

Lionel Rolfe

From Booklist

Why might a reader pick up this anecdotal memoir of an unusual life? Rolfe's uncle is Yehudi Menuhin; both belong to the Schneersohn family from which leaders of the Lubavitcher...

Literary L.A.

Literary L.A.

By Lionel Rolfe

Expanded From the Original Classic and Featuring the Coffeehouse Scene Then and Now

Lionel Rolfe

Beyond L.A.'s self-promotional glitter is a hotbed of writers, bohemians, mad poets,...

Outsider's Reverie: A Memoir

Outsider's Reverie: A Memoir

Leslie Evans

Leslie Evans grew up in a home steeped in the lore of ghostly apparitions, spirit guides, star charts, and the astral plane. His parents met at a séance conducted by a dead thirteenth century crusader. In high school he called himself an outsider,...

Presidents and Near Presidents I Have Known

Presidents and Near Presidents I Have Known

Lionel Rolfe

Lionel Rolfe, the author of Presidents & Near Presidents I Have Known, has written seven books, but none is devoted directly to politics. His books, including such titles as Literary L.A. and The Uncommon Friendship of Yaltah Menuhin and Willa...

Reflections from Elsewhere

Reflections from Elsewhere

Lionel Rolfe

Lionel Rolfe's paean and expose, tribute to and critique of California's unique place in the American public consciousness. A nearly lifelong resident of that fabled state, and having worked full-time since age twenty at some of its most...

The Menuhins: A Family Odyssy

The Menuhins: A Family Odyssy

By Lionel Rolfe

The Menuhins is the story of a miraculous family of great musicians and religious leaders. It is told here for the first time by the nephew of Yehudi Menuhin, the violinist regarded as the greatest musical prodigy since Mozart. Elements of the story have...

The Uncommon Friendship of Yaltah Menuhin and Willa Cather

The Uncommon Friendship of Yaltah Menuhin and Willa Cather

Lionel Rolfe

This is an extraordinary story of the friendship between Willa Cather and the author's mother, piano prodigy Yaltah Menuhin (1920-2001), sister of violinist Yehudi Menuhin. There is currently a resurgence of interest in the remarkable American...


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