Rakes of the Old Court

<h4>Bogdan Suceavă is a Romanian writer who works as a professor of mathematics at California State University, Fullerton. Author of five novels and two collections of short stories, two books are available in English translation: Coming from an Off-Key Time, Northwestern University Press, 2011; Miruna, A Tale, Twisted Spoon Press, 2013.</h4>

Bogdan Suceavă

Aristocratic Nostalgia: On Mateiu Caragiale’s “Rakes of the Old Court”

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

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Viet Thanh Nguyen is an associate professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer, from Grove/Atlantic (2015). His other books are Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction) and Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. His next book is a short story collection, The Refugees, forthcoming in February 2017 from Grove Press.

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Viet Thanh Nguyen

Zoë Ruiz lives and writes in Los Angeles. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Believer, The Millions, Marketplace, The Rumpus, Salon, and the anthologies California Prose Directory (2014), Rooted, and Golden State. She is also the Events Director at The Last Bookstore as well as a freelance book editor and book publicist.

Zoë Ruiz

<h4>Lisa Sanchez Powers is the literary director of Dorland Mountain Arts Colony and editor-in-chief of the literary journal Nomos Review. She completed her PhD at UC Irvine and taught in New York, Chicago, and at UC San Diego, publishing in scholarly journals and anthologies before turning full time to the novel. Her fiction and review essays have been published in The Millions, The Rumpus, Narrative Magazine, and Press 53. She was a scholarship recipient of the Squaw Valley Writers’ Conference and a writer-in-residence at The Weymouth Center in North Carolina, where she first began writing her novel, The Theater, about an anthropologist who travels to Afghanistan during the waning years of Afghan war. Find her at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lisa.sanchez.549436" target="_blank">Facebook</a> or on her website at <a href="http://www.thelisasanchez.com/" target="_blank">www.thelisasanchez.com</a>.</h4>

Lisa Sanchez Powers

Cathy McGregor Weingeist (1950–2016) was executive director of the Iowa City Downtown Association, and was a supporter of Los Angeles Review of Books from its inception.

Cathy McGregor Weingeist

Brian McGovney is a content coordinator at The Designory in Los Angeles.

Brian McGovney

Lance Heard is a Professor of Administration of Justice at Mount San Antonio College and a charter member of Tom’s Book Club.

Lance Heard

Gerald Sato is Deputy City Attorney at the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office.

Gerald Sato

<h4>Tom Lutz is the editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books. His latest book is&nbsp;<a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Born-Slippy-Tom-Lutz/dp/1912248646/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=born+slippy&amp;qid=1574435254&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1">Born Slippy: A Novel.</a></h4>
For more, go to <a href="https://www.tomlutzwriter.com/">tomlutzwriter.com</a>

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Tom Lutz

Book Club Redux: “The Sympathizer”

Blinding, Book I

“Blinding, Book I” by Mircea Cărtărescu: An Excerpt and a Review

This Year's Discovery: Mircea Cărtărescu’s "Blinding" 

Bogdan Suceavă is a Romanian writer who works as a professor of mathematics at California State University, Fullerton. Author of five novels and two collections of short stories, two books are available in English translation: Coming from an Off-Key Time, Northwestern University Press, 2011; Miruna, A Tale, Twisted Spoon Press, 2013.