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Meteor, Star, Galaxy, Caven
LARB presents a new essay by Erika Balsom, excerpted from Fireflies Press’s edited collection “Ingrid Caven: I Am a Fiction,” publishing this September.
Archive
Talk
Kristen Radtke defends Linda Rosenkrantz’s underappreciated classic novel “Talk,” in a comic from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
Outside the Lucky Few
Eli Diner joins the vandals, metalheads, and nitrous ballooners in viewing Kevin Bouton-Scott’s Downtown L.A. painting retrospective.
Sofia Samatar’s “Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life”
Sofia Samatar speaks with Kate Wolf about her new book “Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life.”
Continuing Peril
Sarah Yanni reviews Cheryl Clarke’s “Archive of Style: New and Selected Poems.”
Notes on Disappearing: A Life in Fragments
Veronica Gonzalez Peña explores fragmented memories of a childhood, in light of the 2014 murder of 43 Mexican students, in a story from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
The Dog Ears of Summer
Brittany Menjivar grabs her jacket and spine and spends Friday night with her nose in A Good Used Book in Historic Filipinotown.
The Comfort of Memory
Leo Lasdun reviews two debut novels at the end(?) of alt-lit: Gabriel Smith’s “Brat” and Matthew Davis’s “Let Me Try Again.”
Tricky Business
Jack Skelley locates the line between authenticity and performance in the new immersive theater performance “Session.”
You Dirty Beasts
Simon Lee reviews “Beasts of England” by Adam Biles, an update to George Orwell’s “Animal Farm.”
Down(town) in the Underground
While attending the Labyrinth Masquerade Ball, Brittany Menjivar gets reminded of the babe, the babe with the power, the power of—no, don’t even get me started.
A Singular Man
Jim Berg reviews Katherine Bucknell’s “Christopher Isherwood Inside Out.”
Friday Night Is for the Good Boys
Can Sugar Daddy, Doctor KA, and Bicep Boyfriend team up to save 4th Street from Insatiable Capitalism? A. J. Urquidi is on the scene to find out.
Players with No Game
Madeleine Connors moves through the ranks while brushing off hopeful check-mates at the LA Chess Club Singles Arena in the Fashion District.
Our Defining Stains
Emmeline Clein interviews Dream Baby Press co-founder Matt Starr about his debut book of poetry, “Mouthful.”
GROUP CHAT: Group Chats
For the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip,” our editors started a group chat on group chats.
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