Going All City

Ryan Gattis is the author of the novels All Involved (2015), Safe (2017), and The System (forthcoming: July 2020). He is a member of L.A. art collective UGLARworks, and a mentor in PEN America’s Prison Writing Program. He lives in Los Angeles.

Ryan Gattis

No One Is Nothing: On “Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA’s Graffiti Subculture”

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa

Art &amp; Architecture

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

Michelle Latiolais is an English professor and co-director of the Programs in Writing at the University of California at Irvine. Her novel Even Now won the Gold Medal for Fiction from the Commonwealth Club of California. Her most recent novel, A Proper Knowledge, was published by Bellevue Literary Press. Widow was largely written after the tragic death of Latiolais’ husband, and her stories explore the physiology of grief — reminding us that the inner life is best understood through the medium of storytelling.

Michelle Latiolais

<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>
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Tom Lutz

Radio Hour: Michelle Latiolais

Jack Miles is the editor of The Norton Anthology of World Religions and a professor emeritus of English and religious studies at the University of California, Irvine.

Jack Miles

Seth Greenland’s first memoir, A Kingdom of Tender Colors, will be published in 2020 by Europa Editions. He is the author of five novels. His 1997 play Jungle Rot won the Kennedy Center/American Express Fund for New American Plays Award and the American Theater Critics Association Award. He was a writer-producer on the Emmy-nominated HBO series Big Love.

Seth Greenland

Laurie Winer is a Los Angeles Review of Books founding editor.

Laurie Winer

Radio Hour: Jack Miles on the 'Norton Anthology of World Religions' Plus Ryan Gattis Recommends 'Southland'

Radio Hour: Ryan Gattis

An Interview with Ryan Gattis, author of “All Involved”

Ryan Gattis is the author of the novels All Involved (2015), Safe (2017), and The System (forthcoming: July 2020). He is a member of L.A. art collective UGLARworks, and a mentor in PEN America’s Prison Writing Program. He lives in Los Angeles.