Exploring an American myth
Slate editor Josh Levin spent six years researching and reporting “The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth,” a biography of Linda Taylor, the “welfare queen” whose image was twisted into a pernicious racial stereotype. Levin discusses his book, which is part true crime and part social history, and which is generating buzz for its complexity, wildness and insight, with The Times’ Julia Turner on Wednesday at Skylight Books.
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 29, at Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles. Free.