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Paul Mandelbaum

Paul Mandelbaum teaches the literature of Los Angeles at Emerson College’s L.A. Center. His books include the novels Garrett in Wedlock and Adriane on the Edge and the anthology 12 Short Stories and Their Making.

Articles

Paperback LA: A Casual Anthology
What’s a “casual” anthology? In contrast to its canonical or thematic cousins, this three-volume creation is likened by editor Susan La Tempa to both a patio party or cabaret, though it could also be seen as an excellent mix tape ...
Mar 14, 2019
Paperback LA: A Casual Anthology
What’s a “casual” anthology? In contrast to its canonical or thematic cousins, this three-volume creation is likened by editor Susan La Tempa to both a patio party or cabaret, though it could also be seen as an excellent mix tape ...
Paul MandelbaumMar 14, 2019
The Revolution Will Not Be Simplified
A great many rules were made in Communist Romania not to be followed so much as to create opportunities for failure and prosecution and to achieve a state of social paralysis, the populace rendered captive to its own nervous breakdown....
Mar 11, 2015
- Fiction
Les Plesko Remembered
We talked about books and ideas, and odd moments of the day, but our psychological wounds weren’t topics of conversation; they were the furnace of our work....
Nov 30, 2014
- Fiction
Town and Country: The Double Vision of Bogdan Suceavă
Even the many flourishes of violence that pepper Bogdan Suceavă's short novel are cast in a gauzy, mystical light....
Sep 14, 2014
Good Company: Conversations With Norman Manea
Norman Manea, interviewer and interviewee....
Feb 2, 2014
Adventures in Limbo: On Jim Gavin's "Middle Men"
WITHIN THE UNIVERSE of short story writers living in Los Angeles, a legend arose a couple years ago about a youngish guy who came out of nowhere, took a UCLA Extension class with the estimable Lou Mathews, then made the remarkable ...
Feb 19, 2013
Haunted in Bucharest: fathoming my mother’s homeland by talking to its writers
The author looks through Romania's literary history for a better understanding of the country’s story – as well as his own family's....
Sep 9, 2012
VIDEO: The Question of Nonfiction
Six writers talk about truthiness in nonfiction....
Apr 15, 2012
Whose Hollywood Is It Anyway?
The most satisfying literary conflicts allow all antagonists to be right, each in his own way....
Jun 15, 2011