Lisa Locascio's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Sou'wester, American Short Fiction, Faultline, Wigleaf, and other journals, as well as in the anthology California Prose Directory: New Writing from the Golden State. An Endowed Fellow at the University of Southern California, she lives in Los Angeles, where she is at work on a novel and a monograph about contemporary American literature by women.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Experimenting on Faith: Ryan McIlvain's "Elders"
Inlaid with darkness and violence, Elders is the story of disaffected young men’s machinations towards adulthood through the apparatus of the Church....
My Bolaño Archive
1. THE FIRST PUBLIC EXHIBITION of the papers and personal effects of the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño is the ...
A Ladymass in the Distrito Federal: Veronica Gonzalez Peña’s “The Sad Passions”
ARTISTIC PREOCCUPATION with the consequences of teenage maternity is among the most vibrant geists of our current zeit, from 17 Girls, ...
The Femme Fatale and The Fly In The House of God
WHAT IS IT about communities of the religiously devout, particularly practitioners of anachronistic ways of life, that so transfix us? Reading ...
Lizard Brains: On "The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets"
FOR SEVERAL YEARS, beginning when I was 11 or 12, I wanted a pet iguana badly. In my favorite comic strip, ...
Waking from the Dream of Alaska
For Melinda Moustakis, Alaska is not a region of the imagination; it is a bracingly real place....
