The recipients of the 2012 Emerging Voices literary fellowship, sponsored by nonprofit organization PEN Center USA, will read at the UCLA Hammer Museum’s Billy Wilder Theater on Wednesday. The event marks the completion of the fellowship, which provides new writers with the tools necessary to jump-start a professional writing career. Daily Bruin’s Braden Baseley spoke with Jonathan Alfi, an art history alumnus and one of the recipients of this year’s fellowship, about his experience in the program, his first novel and his plans for the future.

Like many Angelenos, Lisa Anne Auerbach will make the arduous journey from Downtown L.A. to the Westside this evening. Unlike most others, however, her method of transportation is more atypical ““ a bicycle.

Admittedly, Austin Freed isn’t an artistic person.

“I can’t draw or paint for the life of me,” Freed said. “My sister got all of those genes.”

For Mayim Bialik, the true beauty of YouTube isn’t just the entertainment value viewers can extract, but its ability to connect users serendipitously.

Many revere Charles Dickens as the most famous author of Victorian literature, yet few see the irrefutable parallel between the author and Mark Zuckerberg.

If one were to juxtapose the words “penitentiary” and “morality” under normal circumstances, he or she might perceive the relationship between the two as mutually exclusive.