Short Stories, presented by LARB + Everybody.World

Everybody.World and Los Angeles Review of Books present SHORT STORIES, a celebration of the short form on August 16 from 3 - 5 p.m. From short shorts to short works, it’s our favorite summer celebration of the always too short season. Hosted at the Granada Buildings in Macarthur Park, join us for readings from Aiden Arata, Sophia Le Fraga, Ross Simonini, and Jeff Weiss. Everybody.World will be there with the perfect summer fits, and we’ll be joined for pours by Silverlake Wine.

This event is free and open to the public. RSVP here!

Aiden Arata is a writer and artist from Los Angeles. Her debut essay collection, YOU HAVE A NEW MEMORY, published in July from Grand Central Publishing, blurs the boundaries between cultural criticism and memoir to explore the self within the digital age. Her writing has appeared in publications including BOMB, Mask, NYLON, The Rumpus, The Fanzine, Wonderland, Hobart, and others, as well as NDA: An Autofiction Anthology (Archways Editions 2022). Arata’s visual and video work has been featured on platforms including Vice, The Cut, Harper's Bazaar, Mashable, NBC, Seventeen, and The Washington Post. 

Sophia Le Fraga is a writer and artist living and working in Los Angeles, creating work which blends objects, images, and poetry. Le Fraga most recently authored SOFt VISUAL WALLS (LACA, 2025). She has exhibited and performed at the MOCA, MoMA PS1, Camden Arts Center, Centre d'Art Contemporain, and PERFORMA15. Her work has been featured in Best American Experimental Writing, BOMB Magazine, Texte zur Kunst, and Dazed. Le Fraga is the founding editor of No Issue, one-third of Grupo Ñ, and a member of the international artist group Collective Task. Together with Joseph Mosconi and Corina Copp, she co-curates Language Garden in Los Angeles.

Ross Simonini is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and musician living in Los Angeles. ​His first novel, The Book of Formation, was published by Melville House Books in 2017. Simonini serves as a contributing editor for The Believer, and his work can be found in the New York Times, The Paris Review, and Interview Magazine, among other publications. Simonini’s career as a musician has led him to perform at Performa, the Andy Warhol Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum. He serves as an adjunct professor, teaching courses reflective of his own interdisciplinary artistry at Columbia University, CCA, Stanford, and UCLA. 

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Jeff Weiss is a music writer and cultural critic whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Pitchfork, The FADER, and many other outlets. He is the author of the book Waiting for Britney Spears, out now from MCD/FSG. A former columnist for LA Weekly, he is the cofounder of The LAnd magazine and the founder of the pioneering hip-hop blog Passion of the Weiss, along with its record label, POW Recordings. He lives in Los Angeles.