In conversation with Olympians Kerri Walsh Jennings (top photo) and Anita DeFrantz (below). Photographs by Jeff Drongowski
In Conversation
Some recent virtual events Melton has moderated:
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Did Wallace Stegner steal the idea—and the words—for his Pulitzer Prize-winning classic Angle of Repose?
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Getting to know the women leading the rise of natural wine on the West Coast
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Three iconic 1991 films that were prophetic in their outlook on
Los Angeles, with Boyz n the Hood producer Steve Nicolaides
and author Tim Grieving
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How does science fiction reflect the culture of its time? A talk with award-winning critic and novelist Steve Erickson
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The new “California canon” we should teach our students, and the debut of the California Book Club, with author John Freeman
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In Speculative L.A., editor-writer Denise Hamilton reimagines
her hometown in dramatically disparate ways
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Napa winemakers Priyanka French and Randy Dunn discuss how Northern California wineries are innovating their production to
protect against smoke and burns
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Turns out, the birds are watching us, with science journalist
Jason G. Goldman and ornithologist Dan Cooper
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The force is strong with Steve Sansweet, ruler of the world's largest collection of Star Wars memorabilia
And some interviews in the press:
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Can a mom forge a deeper connection with her son—and a divided country—on a 15-day journey along Route 66? A conversation with Alta Journal about her account of the trip
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A Q & A with Neiman Storyboard, a publication of the Nieman Foundation for journalism at Harvard, about how Melton reported and wrote her profile of photographer Julius Shulman
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A short documentary about L.A.’s—and her own—infatuation with televised car chases for The New Yorker (the film was based on one of her stories)
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“Mary Melton is Someone We Really Like” for the Candidly questionnaire
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An interview with the For Keeps podcast about her family's connection to Hawaii, and about collecting
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A Q & A with Capital & Main about what’s wrong with the Los Angeles Times, and other civic matters
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An interview with the Los Angeles Times about how Los Angeles magazine met, and beat, economic challenges
Melton created the "LA Woman" franchise for Los Angeles magazine, which annually honored game changers like filmmaker Ava DuVernay. Photograph by Jeff Drongowski