Emily Quintanilla recently graduated from the University of Southern California with a BA in English with an emphasis in creative writing. She worked as a Los Angeles Review of Books copydesk intern during spring 2024.
Emily Quintanilla
Articles
This Is the Way to Exit Your Youth
Emily Quintanilla finds at least 13 reasons why you’d not be bored at Wallows’ hometown show at the Forum.
Want More Luca Guadagnino?
In light of the cinematic success of Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers,” Emily Quintanilla revisits the Perlman family in Northern Italy.
Mothers and Daughters and Sons, Oh My!
Mother’s Day inspires Emily Quintanilla to revisit Azarin Sadegh’s review of “What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence,” a book of reflective essays edited by Michele Filgate.
Voices from the Borderlands
The recent outpouring of literary works from Latin America leads Emily Quintanilla to unearth Dick Cluster’s profile of Texas’s own FlowerSong Press and its publisher, Edward Vidaurre.
Revisiting Girlhood
Amid a cultural re-embrace of “girlhood,” Emily Quintanilla revisits Sadie Shorr-Parks’s review of Elizabeth Acevedo’s debut novel, “The Poet X”—which provides an alternate angle on femininity, identity, and adolescence.
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