Hi there. I'm Kari Howard, and I edit the Great Reads (a.k.a. Column Ones) for the Los Angeles Times.
Two of my biggest loves are narrative journalism and music, and I'm lucky that my days are filled with both: When reading the stories, I get inspired by songs I think fit the article's theme — a soundtrack.
Here are the Great Reads (and some lowercase great reads) of the past week, plus their soundtracks.
The DWP, a 2-acre compound in Pacific Palisades, and a dog with a past
OK, time to praise a lead: "Beat a dog once," observed the late Russian writer and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn, "and you only have to show him the whip.