Laurie Winer is a long-time critic and journalist who has been on staff at the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and as chief theatre critic at the Los Angeles Times. Laurie Winer’s articles for the Los Angeles Review of Books can be found at http://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/laurie-winer. They include: Chip Kidd at the 2014 LA Times Book Fest The Only People Here: Lorrie Moore’s Latest Pride and Paragon: Listening to George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” Listening to George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” After “Breaking Bad”: What Now? “The Pie Hole Is Mine”: Mary Roach’s “Gulp” Oscar and “Les Miz” Choosing Not to Be: On David Foster Wallace The Mormon Candidate Taste is the Great Divider: On Pauline Kael Zell to L.A. Times: Drop Dead Magicland