The James Ellroy Interview LA Review of Books 2012-11-22 | Tom Lutz sits down with James Ellroy to talk about his new novella, published by Byliner
Exuberant Assembly: Adriano Pedrosa at Venice Biennale 2024 LA Review of Books 2024-08-02 | Michael Kurcfeld interviews Adriano Pedrosa, curator of the 2024 Venice Biennale.Read Michael's write-up here: lareviewofbooks.org/av/exuberant-assembly
Artificial Intelligence: A Creative Tool Considered LA Review of Books 2024-01-07 | Michael Kurcfeld interviews Joel Gethin Lewis, the interactive creative director of UK-based design collective Universal Everything. Read Michael's write-up here: lareviewofbooks.org/av/artificial-intelligence-a-creative-tool-considered-video
2023 LARB Publishing Workshop LA Review of Books 2023-12-29 | Hear Fellows from the 2023 LARB Workshop speak about their experience!
Still Meets Moving Image: The 54th Annual Les Rencontres d’Arles Festival - Michael Kurcfeld Reports LA Review of Books 2023-09-19 | Michael Kurcfeld reviews the 54th annual Les Rencontres d’Arles festival.Read Michael's write-up here: lareviewofbooks.org/av/still-meets-moving-image-the-54th-annual-les-rencontres-darles-festival-video
Vermeer: The Mystery of His Mastery, Revealed? - Michael Kurcfeld Reports LA Review of Books 2023-05-20 | Michael Kurcfeld reviews the transcendent Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.Read Michael's write-up here: lareviewofbooks.org/av/vermeer-the-mystery-of-his-mastery-revealed
TOUCHING FRIEZE LOS ANGELES 2023 - Michael Kurcfeld LA Review of Books 2023-03-28 | In this video, Michael Kurcfeld covers the art fair Frieze Los Angeles 2023 and speaks with Hollis McGregor from kaufmann repetto (Milan and New York) and Kaeli Deane from Lisson Gallery in London about the increased interest in elevating craft.Read Michael's write-up here: lareviewofbooks.org/av/touching-frieze-los-angeles-2023
LARB Publishing Workshop 2022 LA Review of Books 2023-02-24 | Hear 2022 Publishing Workshop Fellows reflect on their experience. For more information about the workshop and applications, please visit larbpublishingworkshop.org.
2023 LARB Publishing Workshop Info Session LA Review of Books 2023-02-22 | An info session about the Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing Workshop with staff and workshop alumni. @LosAngelesReviewofBooks
Writing Sex: John Weir LA Review of Books 2022-10-20 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.John Weir, winner of the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction for Your “Nostalgia Is Killing Me,” is an associate professor of English at Queens College CUNY, where he teaches the MFA in creative writing and literary translation.HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Special Projects Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine http://www.the-blank-page.com
Writing Sex: William E. Jones LA Review of Books 2022-10-20 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.William E. Jones is an artist, filmmaker, and writer. He has made experimental films and many other works, including the essay film “Fall into Ruin” (2017).HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Special Projects Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine http://www.the-blank-page.com
Writing Sex: Scott Branson LA Review of Books 2022-10-20 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.Scott Branson is a queer and trans writer, translator, teacher, artist, and anarchist organizer who is currently living in Western North Carolina. HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Special Projects Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine http://www.the-blank-page.com
Writing Sex: Mia McKenzie LA Review of Books 2022-10-20 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.Mia McKenzie’s work helps amplify the voices of queer and trans people of color, and Black Girl Dangerous Media, an independent media and education project that centers queer black women and girls.HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Special Projects Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine http://www.the-blank-page.com
Writing Sex: Kacen Callender LA Review of Books 2022-10-20 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.Kacen Callender is a bestselling and award-winning author of multiple novels for children, teens, and adults, including the National Book Award-winning “King and the Dragonflies” and the bestselling novel “Felix Ever After.”HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Special Projects Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine http://www.the-blank-page.com
Writing Sex: Eric Cervini LA Review of Books 2022-10-20 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.Dr. Eric Cervini is an award-winning author, producer, and historian of LGBTQ+ politics. His first book, “The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America,” was a NYT bestseller and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Special Projects Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine http://www.the-blank-page.com
2021 LARB Publishing Workshop LA Review of Books 2022-09-15 | The LARB Publishing Workshop is an intensive summer course that offers insight, skills, and networks in the world of publishing. Prioritizing access and innovation, the Publishing Workshop brings in 60+ professionals from all areas of book, magazine, and new media publishing to teach and mentor the next generation of publishers, editors, designers, and more. In this brief video, listen to 2021 Publishing Workshop Fellows reflect on their experiences in the program--the second to be held online in light of the pandemic.Read more about the Workshop at: thepublishingworkshop.comApplications for the 2022 program will open in January 2022. Video edited by Ani Bezirdzhyan----The Los Angeles Review of Books is a member-supported 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. During this difficult season, our funding, like that of so many nonprofit arts organizations, has been upended. If you're in a position to do so, please consider showing your support by becoming a member or making a tax-deductible donation today at lareviewofbooks.org/donate. If you're already a LARB member or donor, thank you for your continued support!
Writing Sex: Torrey Peters LA Review of Books 2022-07-07 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.Torrey Peters is the author of the novel Detransition, Baby, published by One World, which won the 2021 PEN/Hemingway award for debut fiction. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards, a finalist for the Brooklyn Public Library Award, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. A collection of four novellas, titled Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones, will be published by Random House in 2023.HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Special Projects Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Irvinehttp://www.the-blank-page.com
Writing Sex: Pamela Sneed LA Review of Books 2022-07-07 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.Pamela Sneed is a New York-based poet, performer, visual artist, and educator. She is the author of Funeral Diva (City Lights Books, 2020), Sweet Dreams (Belladonna*, 2018), KONG (Vintage Entity Press, 2009), Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery (Holt, 1998), and others. She appears in Nikki Giovanni’s “The 100 Best African American Poems,” and has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes.HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Special Projects Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Irvinehttp://www.the-blank-page.com
Writing Sex: Michael Lowenthal LA Review of Books 2022-07-07 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.Michael Lowenthal is the author of four novels: The Same Embrace (Dutton, 1998); Avoidance (Graywolf Press, 2002); Charity Girl (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), which was a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice” and a Washington Post “Top Fiction of 2007″ pick; and The Paternity Test (University of Wisconsin Press, 2012), an Indie Next selection and a Lambda Literary Award finalist. His first story collection, Sex With Strangers, was published in March 2021.HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Special Projects Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Irvinehttp://www.the-blank-page.com
Writing Sex: Juliet Jacques LA Review of Books 2022-07-07 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.Juliet Jacques is a writer and filmmaker based in London. She has published three books: Rayner Heppenstall: A Critical Study (Dalkey Archive, 2007); Trans: A Memoir (Verso, 2015); and a volume of short stories, Variations (Influx Press, 2021). She has also contributed to volumes published by Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, And Other Stories and others.HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Special Projects Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Irvinehttp://www.the-blank-page.com
Writing Sex: Eric Nguyen LA Review of Books 2022-07-07 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.Eric Nguyen earned an MFA in Creative Writing from McNeese State University in Louisiana. He has been awarded fellowships from Lambda Literary, Voices of Our Nation Arts (VONA), and the Tin House Writers Workshop. He is the editor in chief of diaCRITICS.org. He lives in Washington, DC. "Things We Lost to the Water" is his first novel.HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Special Projects Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Irvinehttp://www.the-blank-page.com
Writing Sex: Daniel Lupo LA Review of Books 2022-07-07 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.DANIEL LUPO is a writer and dancer based in Queens. Their translation of Arthur’s Whims, a novel by Hervé Guibert, is forthcoming from Spurl Editions.HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Special Projects Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Irvinehttp://www.the-blank-page.com
LARB 10th Anniversary Video LA Review of Books 2021-12-10 | Featuring remarks by Jody Armour, Reza Aslan, Leo Braudy, Victoria Chang, Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, Anne Germanacos, Albert Litewka, Michael Nava, Marjorie Perloff, Dean Rader, Nina Revoyr, Lisa Teasley, Lynne Thompson, Barbara Voron, Jon Wiener, Jamie Wolf, and others on the occasion of LARB's 10th anniversary celebration.Learn more about our first 10 years: lareviewofbooks.org/tenthDonate to support LARB: lareviewofbooks.org/donateBecome a LARB member: lareviewofbooks.org/join
(Screen)Writing Against Type w/Brandon Easton, Walter Mosley, Paula Yoo, & Janice Littlejohn LA Review of Books 2021-09-02 | On Thursday, June 24, the Los Angeles Review of Books hosted a roundtable conversation on writing, genre, and audience expectations featuring acclaimed authors and screenwriters Brandon Easton, Walter Mosley, & Paula Yoo, and moderated by journalist and author Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn.
An Interview with Ai Weiwei LA Review of Books 2021-07-02 | “Chinese dissident artist” is a frequent descriptor used by the art press to define Ai Weiwei, but it’s a box that can’t really contain his tireless, borderless activism and prodigious artistic output in a wide range of media (including documentary film). Early in Ai’s career, he abandoned the fashions of art for art’s sake that ruled the ‘important’ critical arena and developed a personal language of conceptual art that absorbed and manipulated traditional Chinese forms for the purpose of commenting on political realities he was forced to endure both early on — when his poet father was exiled to the provinces — and later when he himself was incarcerated, and even beaten, by the Chinese state.The Skirball Cultural Center’s current exhibition of Ai’s 2014 series TRACE — which in its entirety celebrates 176 ‘prisoners of conscience,’ though scaled down to 83 here — is particularly timely, after Belarus dictator Lukashenko ordered the hijacking of a Ryanair plane carrying dissident journalist Roman Protasevich from Greece to Lithuania, and had the young opposition leader arrested and probably tortured. The international outrage this has provoked, against an act of authoritarian overreach even by Russian standards, once again puts center stage the role of courageous men and women who have stood up to oppressive regimes.TRACE was initially created for the lugubrious island fortress of Alcatraz federal prison, now a tourist site but by no means softened for sensitive visitors. Understandably, Ai considered this an appropriate setting for his eloquent tribute to fellow troublemakers, entirely designed and executed in 2-dimensional arrangements of Lego pieces. TRACE is as politically candid, and yet deeply personal, as another series of his, S.A.C.R.E.D. (2013), six dioramas of doll-scale figures in steel boxes viewed from above and through peepholes, illustrating his 81 days in prison — with ever-present guards hovering over his every daily routine in a sustained ritual of humiliation. Ai intimately grasps the peril of speaking truth to power.TRACE plays with the art of portraiture in a way that is both disarmingly high-spirited and deadly serious. Up close its pixelated form suggests digital imagery while veering into geometric abstraction; from a distance, the faces cohere, emote and devastate — infinitely recombinant puzzle bits rendered into the immutably iconic. The whole is a tour of the world’s incumbent evil, and those who risk everything to resist.TRACE is on view at the Skirball Cultural Center through August 1.
Writing Sex: Micah Nemerever LA Review of Books 2021-06-04 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.MICAH NEMEREVER is the author of These Violent Delights.HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Special Projects Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Irvinehttp://www.the-blank-page.com
Writing Sex: Jack Halberstam LA Review of Books 2021-06-04 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.JACK HALBERSTAM is the author of many books, most recently Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire.HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Special Projects Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Irvinehttp://www.the-blank-page.com
Writing Sex: Doron Langberg LA Review of Books 2021-06-04 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.DORON LANGBERG is an Israel-born, Brooklyn-based painter.HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Special Projects Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Irvinehttp://www.the-blank-page.com
Writing Sex: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore LA Review of Books 2021-06-04 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.MATTILDA BERNSTEIN SYCAMORE is the author of several books, including most recently The Freezer Door.HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Special Projects Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Irvinehttp://www.the-blank-page.com
Writing Sex: adrienne maree brown LA Review of Books 2021-06-04 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.adrienne maree brown is the author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good.HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Special Projects Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Irvinehttp://www.the-blank-page.com
Writing Sex: Jenn Shapland LA Review of Books 2021-06-04 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.JENN SHAPLAND is the author of My Autobiography of Carson McCullers.HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Special Projects Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Irvinehttp://www.the-blank-page.com
Writing Sex: Malinda Lo LA Review of Books 2021-06-04 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.MALINDA LO is the author of several YA novels, including, most recently, Last Night at the Telegraph Club.HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Special Projects Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Irvinehttp://www.the-blank-page.com
Writing Sex: Alex Espinoza LA Review of Books 2021-06-04 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.ALEX ESPINOZA is the author of Cruised: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime.HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Special Projects Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Irvinehttp://www.the-blank-page.com
Writing Toward Liberation: A Conversation w/Jody Armour, Bidhan Roy, and Maytha Alhassen LA Review of Books 2021-04-06 | Monday, April , 2021-- Los Angeles Review of Books hosts a timely virtual conversation with Jody Armour, Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at USC, and Bidhan Chandra Roy, Professor of English at Cal State LA and founder of WordsUncaged, moderated by journalist, historian, and activist Maytha Alhassen, on writing, incarceration, and the power of language and narrative to help us imagine alternatives to the prison industrial complex.
Writing Sex: Michael Nava LA Review of Books 2021-03-01 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Special Projects Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Irvinehttp://www.the-blank-page.comMICHAEL NAVA is the author of the Henry Rios mystery novels, which includes, most recently, Carved in Bone.
Writing Sex: Sigrid Nunez LA Review of Books 2021-03-01 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Special Projects Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Irvinehttp://www.the-blank-page.comSIGRID NUNEZ is the author of numerous novels, including, most recently, Friend and What Are You Going Through.
Writing Sex: Andrew Durbin LA Review of Books 2021-03-01 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Special Projects Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Irvinehttp://www.the-blank-page.comANDREW DURBIN is the editor of Frieze and the author, most recently, of Skyland.
Writing Sex: Julietta Singh LA Review of Books 2021-03-01 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Special Projects Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Irvinehttp://www.the-blank-page.comJULIETTA SINGH is the author of No Archive Will Restore You and the forthcoming book The Breaks.
Writing Sex: Zaina Arafat LA Review of Books 2021-03-01 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Special Projects Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Irvinehttp://www.the-blank-page.comZAINA ARAFAT is the author of You Exist Too Much.
Writing Sex: Adib Khorram LA Review of Books 2021-03-01 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Special Projects Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California, Irvinehttp://www.the-blank-page.comADIB KHORRAM is the author of Darius the Great Is Not OK and Darius the Great Deserves Better.Guest interviewer: Nasrin Rahimieh is Howard Baskerville Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author, most recently, of Iranian Culture: Representation and Identity.
A King of Comedy: An Interview with Carl Reiner LA Review of Books 2020-10-25 | In a 2002 interview, Carl Reiner unpacks the making and magic of The Dick Van Dyke Showand muses on what he’s learned from a very long life in comedy.¤In the history of the American sitcom, Carl Reiner is a celebrated master from a golden age of comedy. He was a protean hyphenate of the medium — writer, director, second banana, actor, mentor, memoirist, as well as producer, most notably for the iconic The Dick Van Dyke Show, which was based more closely on his own workaday life than any series that came before it, later spawning The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Seinfeld, and many others.Getting his chops on Your Show of Shows — a boldly irreverent 1950s sketch factory that was a TV ratings giant — Reiner worked alongside greats like Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Mel Brooks and Neil Simon. He went on to conquer the pre-revolution ‘60s, first with a series of hit albums with Brooks, like The 2000-Year-Old Man, and later with a pilot for a show called Head of the Family, in which Reiner was cast as the lead. Initially, Head of the Family flopped, but it was soon recast, and saved by the on-screen chemistry of Van Dyke and Tyler Moore. The re-tooled show, now called The Dick Van Dyke Show, was propelled by zesty scripts that were clever enough to explore marriage and white-collar office life with precision-timed levity and unfailing wholesomeness. Rob and Laura Petrie became the unapologetic template of white suburbia, Camelot without the dark climax. Reiner, apparently not busy enough writing most of the early years’ shows, relished playing Van Dyke’s vain and cantankerous boss, Alan Brady. The show lasted five years, until 1966, and remains a perpetually aired classic.In 2000, the Kennedy Center awarded Reiner the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor; he was only the third recipient, after Richard Pryor and Jonathan Winters. This past June, Reiner passed away at 98 — leaving us to mourn and to contemplate the notion, as old as the Bible, that laughter may well be an elixir of longevity (consider Mel Brooks, Betty White, Bob Newhart, George Burns, Bob Hope, Milton Berle…).lareviewofbooks.org/av/talking-to-carl-reiner
LARB Publishing Workshop 2020 LA Review of Books 2020-10-20 | Do you aspire to work in the publishing industry? Do you have a publishing project you want to get off the ground? Are you a writer who would benefit from getting a primer of all facets of contemporary publishing and the networking to go with it? LARB's annual Publishing Workshop might be for you.In this short video, you can hear 2020 Publishing Workshop Fellows--in light of the pandemic, our first virtual cohort--share about their experiences in the program. Read more about the Workshop and apply at: thepublishingworkshop.comVideo edited by Ani Bezirdzhyan----The Los Angeles Review of Books is a member-supported 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. During this difficult season, our funding, like that of so many nonprofit arts organizations, has been upended. If you're in a position to do so, please consider showing your support by becoming a member or making a tax-deductible donation today at lareviewofbooks.org/donate. If you're already a LARB member or donor, thank you for your continued support!
Hong Kong Against the Odds (9/30/20) LA Review of Books 2020-10-06 | A conversation hosted by the Los Angeles Review of Books with activist Samuel Chu, journalist Mary Kay Magistad, Congresswoman Katie Porter, and historian Jeff Wasserstrom about the ongoing protest movement in Hong Kong, its origins, and where the situation may go from here.------The Los Angeles Review of Books is a member-supported 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. During this difficult season, our funding, like that of so many nonprofit arts organizations, has been upended. If you're in a position to do so, please consider showing your support by becoming a member or making a tax-deductible donation today at lareviewofbooks.org/donate. If you're already a LARB member or donor, thank you for your continued support!
Jody Armour & Melina Abdullah on Racial Oppression in America LA Review of Books 2020-09-02 | Scholar Jody Armour and Co-founder of Black Lives Matter - LA Chapter Dr. Melina Abdullah talk about racial oppression in America, Armour's recently released book "N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law," #PrisonAbolition, #DefundThePolice, #BlackLivesMatter, respectability politics, where bias lives in criminal law and its processes, and the proper role of the N-word in the political communication and artistic expression of black folk.___“When Jody Armour invited me to write the foreword, his brilliance, commitment, and deep love for our people took precedent over my own discomfort with the N-word. His work has challenged me to be deeply introspective, to grapple with my identity, my beliefs, and my outward praxis. It has forced me to question and to grow. This volume is not about the word, but about the imposed dichotomy between ‘black people’ and ‘n*****s.’ It is about the strategic and ethical decision to align with n****s, especially when we have the option to be seen as ‘good Negroes’.”—Melina Abdullah, former chair of Pan-African Studies, California State University, Los Angeles and co-founder of Black Lives Matter chapter in LA.___GET YOUR COPYBuy the book: larbbooks.org/product/ngga-theory-printBuy the e-book: larbbooks.org/product/ngga-theory-ebook___LEARN MORE ABOUT ...LARB Books: larbbooks.orgLARB Books Provocations series: larbbooks.org/books/provocationsLARB: lareviewofbooks.orgBecome a LARB member: lareviewofbooks.org/membershipAntiracist Reading List by BookPeople bookpeople.com/anti-racist-reading-listMusic courtesy of Bensound.com___
Writing Sex: Garth Greenwell LA Review of Books 2020-08-23 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Senior Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English and Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Irvine http://www.the-blank-page.comFIRST SEASONGarth Greenwell is the author, most recently, of Cleanness.For more from LARB AV:View all LARB AV episodes at lareviewofbooks.org/av
Writing Sex: Myriam Gurba LA Review of Books 2020-08-23 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Senior Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English and Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Irvine http://www.the-blank-page.comFIRST SEASONMyriam Gurba is the author, most recently, of Mean.For more from LARB AV:View all LARB AV episodes at lareviewofbooks.org/av
Writing Sex: Saeed Jones LA Review of Books 2020-08-23 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Senior Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English and Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Irvine http://www.the-blank-page.comFIRST SEASONSaeed Jones is the author, most recently, of How We Fight For Our Lives.For more from LARB AV:View all LARB AV episodes at lareviewofbooks.org/av
Writing Sex: André Aciman LA Review of Books 2020-08-23 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Senior Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English and Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Irvine http://www.the-blank-page.comFIRST SEASONAndré Aciman is the author, most recently, of Find Me.For more from LARB AV:View all LARB AV episodes at lareviewofbooks.org/av
Writing Sex: Andrea Lawlor LA Review of Books 2020-08-23 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Senior Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English and Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Irvine http://www.the-blank-page.comFIRST SEASONAndrea Lawlor is the author, most recently, of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl.For more from LARB AV:View all LARB AV episodes at lareviewofbooks.org/av
Writing Sex: Dennis Cooper LA Review of Books 2020-08-17 | WRITING SEX is a series of short interviews with contemporary writers who are breaking new ground in writing about sex and sexuality. Sometimes ribald but always smart, these writers push the limits of our ability to imagine what sex is, what it means, and what it could be.HOST: Jonathan Alexander, Senior Editor at LARB and Chancellor’s Professor of English and Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Irvine http://www.the-blank-page.comFIRST SEASONDennis Cooper is the author many novels and books of poetry, and most recently, with Zac Farley, the creator of the film Permanent Green Light.For more from LARB AV:View all LARB AV episodes at lareviewofbooks.org/av
