Dreams and Schemes: My Decade of Fun in the Sun. This item is unavailable.Dreams and Schemes: My Decade of Fun in the Sun

Dreams and Schemes is a collection of the most controversial, irreverent, trouble-making, and heart-warming columns written by the Los Angeles Times' Steve Lopez. He writes through the eyes of the region and its people, unflinchingly taking on the movers and shakers, and poking about in places where other reporters wouldn't dare go. Dreams and Schemes is an entertaining and insightful look into the workings of a modern-day city.

STEVE LOPEZ is an award-winning columnist for the Los Angeles Times. His book The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music, a New York Times bestseller, won a Pen USA Literary Award and was the basis for the 2009 DreamWorks film starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. Prior to joining the staff of the Los Angeles Times, Lopez spent four years at Time Inc. (1997-2001), where he wrote for Time, Sports Illustrated, Life and Entertainment Weekly. Prior to Time Inc., Lopez was a columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer (1985-1997), the San Jose Mercury News (1983-1985) and the Oakland Tribune (1977-1983). Lopez’s other books include Land of Giants: Where No Good Need Goes Unpunished (1995), a collection of the best of his Inquirer columns, and several novels. Lopez is married and has two sons and a daughter