Anthony Lovett

Who was Anthony Lovett?

Anthony Lovett, better known as Tony Lovett, was the co-author with Matt Maranian of the regional cult classic, L.A. Bizarro, a best-selling underground guidebook to Los Angeles. The first edition of the book, which went to #1 on the L.A. Times Non-Fiction Bestseller list in 1997, remained on the chart for 5 months, and was in print for over ten years. L.A. Bizarro went through more than twenty printings before finally being retired by St. Martins Press in 2007.

The authors were profiled in the Weekend Calendar section of the L.A. Times in August 2007 to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the book. Ironically, the first edition of L.A. Bizarro was out of print by then, but the cover story by Jessica Gelt generated renewed interest in an update/sequel as well as a website that is still a work in progress.

The all-new updated 2009 version of L.A. Bizarro by Chronicle Books was published in September 2009. Like the first book, it remained on the L.A. Times bestseller list for over six months, and garnered praise as well as a new generation of followers. The new book and its authors were written-up again in an L.A. Times feature article as well as in the L.A. Times blog