“Gossip” Party

Someone start boiling the water, because Gossip, the latest edition of LARB’s print Quarterly, is almost here and we’re ready to spill all of the tea. Celebrate the end of summer and preview our exciting new issue on August 22 at Steve Turner Gallery in Hollywood. Come at 7 p.m. for drinks, readings, and conversation—yes, even gossip.

Words have the power to pierce experience and identity, to piece communities together or pull them apart. The Gossip issue is dedicated to talk of every type: the porous boundaries between speculation and scandal, rumors and reality, needing-to-know and plain old nosiness. Join us for readings from contributors Ivanna Baranova, Summer Kim Lee, Michelle Latiolais, and Ruth Madievsky. 

Drinks will be provided by Lubanzi Wines and Topo Chico. Special thanks to Steve Turner Gallery for hosting!

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Ivanna Baranova is a writer living in Los Angeles. She is the author of Continuum (2023) and Confirmation Bias (2019), both available from Metatron Press. Her work has appeared in Blush Lit, Cixous72, DIAGRAM, Newest York, and elsewhere.

Summer Kim Lee is an assistant professor of English at UCLA. She was born and raised in Los Angeles. 

Michelle Latiolais is the author of the novel Even Now which received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the Commonwealth Club of California. Her second novel A Proper Knowledge was published by Bellevue Literary Press, as was Widow, a collection of stories, involutions and essays. She was released in 2016 by W.W. Norton & Company. Recent work is forthcoming in Mississippi Review in 2025.

Ruth Madievsky is the author of the national bestselling novel, All-Night Pharmacy, winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction, as well as a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her work appears in The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, The Cut, and elsewhere. Originally from Moldova, she lives in Los Angeles, where she works as an HIV and primary care clinical pharmacist.

Lubanzi Wines is a start-up, sustainable, South African wine company, created in Cape Town by two young travelers, Charlie Brain & Walker Brown, alongside a small collection of well-known South African winemakers, viticulturists, farm laborers, and humanitarians. Their name comes from a wandering dog that followed the two on a 6 day, 100-mile hiking trip across South Africa’s Wild Coast.