Meg Zukin

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Meg Zukin

What started as a bit has turned into something altogether holy. In December 2024, artist Susan Bin co-founded Pope Crave, an X fan account dedicated to Conclave, the 2024 film starring Ralph Fiennes, and its lovingly memed awards-season run. Parodying celebrity news accounts like Pop Crave or Pop Base, Pope Crave focuses exclusively on Conclave updates, including must-see memes. Or at least it did.

1 week ago | time.com | Meg Zukin

The New York Times once called Keith McNally the “Restaurateur Who Invented Downtown”—but the Balthazar founder is so much more than that. And he detests the word “restaurateur.” McNally got his start in 1975 bussing tables in Manhattan at Serendipity and shucking oysters at One Fifth. Five years later, he founded The Odeon, the first of his iconic collection of restaurants that defined the downtown scene.

1 month ago | latimes.com | Meg Zukin

“Whether you’re heading out to Indio, or enjoying the annual exodus of Angelenos, here are some books that give Coachella Valley vibes,” writes Meg Zukin. Calling all bookworms! Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. It’s festival season. And no, I don’t just mean The Times’ Festival of Books happening at the end of the month ( see you at my panel…? ). I’m also talking about and, unfortunately, .

1 month ago | asianamericans.einnews.com | Meg Zukin

Calling all bookworms! Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. Calling all bookworms! Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Meg. I write shut up and read, a book newsletter. I’m also on BookTok. I just flew through Amy Griffin’s “The Tell.” Her memoir — a powerful investigation of repressed memories, sexual trauma and the quest for perfection — took me less than two days to finish. Instead of walking to the gym, I took the train, just so I could have more time to read.

2 months ago | latimes.com | Meg Zukin

“I was trying to contend with a sense of deep uncertainty relative to my own position,” author Omar El Akkad says of his memoir, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This.”Calling all bookworms! Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Meg. I write “ ,” a book newsletter. I’m also on . This week, we speak with Egyptian Canadian journalist-turned-author Omar El Akkad, whose memoir-manifesto “One Day, Everyone Will Have Been Against This” came out on Feb. 25.