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Please join us for a celebratory evening of cocktails and conversation with LARB&#8217;s Editors-in-Chief about the future of the Los Angeles Review of Books, reading, print, the book review, criticism, Sunset Boulevard, gin, democracy, the L.A. River, and more at the home of LARB Founders Tom Lutz and Laurie Winer.
You, our community members, are the future of LARB. Whether you&#8217;ve been with us since the beginning or you&#8217;re new to our pages, come reminisce and hazard a guess at the road ahead with the eminent writers, teachers, and advocates atop our masthead. Ring in 2023 with LARB.
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6:30pm: Cocktails
7pm: Conversation and Q&amp;A
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LARB thanks <a href="https://www.futuregin.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Future Gin</a> for generously donating the evening&#8217;s libations. Future Gin is a women- and queer-owned and operated distillery. Its founders created a spirit that represents everything we love about California, from its natural bounty to its forward-thinking. Future combines the structure of a dry gin with the vibrant flavors of Southern California. Meyer lemon, honeysuckle, and grape leaf are distilled alongside traditional botanicals to produce a gin that&#8217;s as classic as a martini and as bright as our future.
This event takes place indoors and outdoors. For the health and safety of all in attendance, masks are highly encouraged. The home is wheelchair accessible. Street parking is available only.
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Those who contribute at the LARB Benefactor level or above during our year-end fund drive receive complimentary tickets to this event and will be registered automatically. Learn more about how you can support our non-paywalled digital magazine and civic arts programs as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization <a href="http://shop.lareviewofbooks.org/donate" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.
Have questions about this event or need to request accommodations? Please don&#8217;t hesitate write to LARB Public Programs Manager Kelly Peyton at kelly@lareviewofbooks.org.

The Future of LARB: Cocktails & Conversation with the Editors-in-Chief - Los Angeles Review of Books

Please join us for a celebratory evening of cocktails and conversation with LARB’s Editors-in-Chief about the future of the Los Angeles Review of Books, reading, print, the book review, criticism, Sunset Boulevard, gin, democracy, the L.A. River, and more at the home of LARB Founders Tom Lutz and Laurie Winer. You, our community members, are […]

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The Future of LARB: Cocktails &amp; Conversation with the Editors-in-Chief - Los Angeles Review of Books

The blocks around the LARB offices have been on intermittent fire, our phones and refrigerators are sentient — time seems to have collapsed into nothing at all.
Isn’t it uncanny?
Our Fall issue is filled with prose, verse, and visual art that sits with the unease in that question. Now, in person, with music, performance, readings, and poetry, we will grapple with it again.
Come celebrate this issue launch with several of the issue contributors. Post-punk legend Kid Congo Powers will read from his story of coming into his own as a queer kid in 1970s L.A. and will play a solo set. Poet Ronaldo V. Wilson will wonder how to properly render the dead in art through performance. Two-time novelist Anna Dorn will read some uncanny (and unpublished) poetry. Poet and scholar Amanda Gunn will read from her forthcoming collection, Things I Didn&#8217;t Do with This Body. And Kate Durbin will read flash fiction on American Cheeses.
There will be cocktails provided by Greenbar Distillery, snacks by Cash Only Collective, flash tattoos by Salvador de la Torre, and vinyl music DJ&#8217;d throughout the night. Many thanks to <a href="https://theriverla.com/">The River LA</a>, an open-air venue on the LA River in Frogtown, for donating their beautiful space to host us for the evening.
Tickets are $25, with proceeds supporting our nonprofit publication, or free (with code) for all LARB members and LARB Quarterly subscribers. Not a member or subscriber? Buy your ticket today, or buy a print subscription for 10% off and get into the launch, and future launches, for free!
This event will take place in an outdoor, ADA-compliant venue. For the health and safety of all in attendance, COVID-19 vaccinations are required and masks are encouraged.

The LARB Quarterly, no. 35: Isn't it uncanny? Launch Party - Los Angeles Review of Books

LARB invites you to our Uncanny Launch Party, celebrating issue no. 35 with readings from Kid Congo Powers, Anna Dorn, Amanda Gunn, and more!

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The LARB Quarterly, no. 35: Isn&#039;t it uncanny? Launch Party - Los Angeles Review of Books

The LARB Book Club featuring The Furrows by Namwali Serpell
Thursday, October 27, at 5 PM PST, via Zoom
LARB Members, <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYoceGopjIuEtcto9JoOPQ1iMHrd4S8wZnu">Register Here</a>
All&nbsp;members are invited to join us and purchase a copy of The Furrows at Skylight for 15% off or take advantage of the 10% discount at bookstores near you.* Visit the <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/category/recklessreader/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reckless Reader page</a> to see if your local store is a participating member.&nbsp;
Are you a subscriber or not a member&nbsp;and want to join these conversations? <a href="https://shop.lareviewofbooks.org/join" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Upgrade or join today</a> and get access to member-only perks, like conversations with LARB editors and members.
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I don’t want to tell you what happened. I want to tell you how it felt.
Cassandra Williams is twelve; her little brother Wayne is seven. One day, when they’re alone together, there is an accident and Wayne is lost forever. His body is never recovered. The missing boy cleaves the family with doubt. Their father leaves, starts another family elsewhere. But their mother can’t give up hope and launches an organization dedicated to missing children.
As C grows older, she sees her brother everywhere: in bistros, airplane aisle s, subways cars. Here is her brother’s older face, the light in his eyes, the way he seems to recognize her, too. But it can’t be, of course. Or can it? Then one day, in another accident, C meets a man both mysterious and familiar, a man who is also searching for someone, and for his own place in the world. His name is Wayne.
Namwali Serpell’s remarkable new novel captures the uncanny experience of grief, the way the past breaks over the present like waves in the sea. The Furrows is a bold exploration of memory and mourning that twists unexpectedly into a story of mistaken identity, double consciousness, and the wishful — and sometimes willful — longing for reunion with those we’ve lost.
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Namwali Serpell was born in Lusaka and lives in New York. Her debut novel, The Old Drift, won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction, and the Los Angeles Times’ Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction; it was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review and one of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of the Year. Her nonfiction book, Stranger Faces, was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. She is currently professor of English at Harvard.&nbsp;Image credit:&nbsp;Peg&nbsp;Skorpinski

The LARB Book Club - Fall 2022 - Los Angeles Review of Books

Members Salon:&nbsp;South Central Noir
with Gary Phillips, editor of South Central Noir, and 
Nathan Jefferson,&nbsp;LARB’s Noir editor
Monday, November 14, at 5 p.m. PT, via Zoom
LARB Members,&nbsp;<a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApdeuqqTopHd24XR1Cfkm7k88Lvmmd6s94" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Register Here</a>&nbsp;and take advantage of the special 15% off of South Central Noir courtesy of&nbsp;Reckless Reader partner store <a href="https://www.thecollectiveoakland.com">The&nbsp;Collective Oakland</a>. Reach out to us to get that code. <a href="mailto:membership@lareviewofbooks.org">membership@lareviewofbooks.org</a>
Are you a subscriber or not a member&nbsp;and want to join these conversations? <a href="https://shop.lareviewofbooks.org/join" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Upgrade or join today</a> and get access to member-only perks, like conversations with poets, writers, editors,&nbsp;critics, and more.
Gary Phillips has published various novels, comics, and short stories, in addition to&nbsp;editing&nbsp;several anthologies including the award-winning The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir and the recently released South Central Noir. Violent Spring, first published in 1994, was named by CrimeReads in 2020 one of the essential crime novels of Los Angeles.&nbsp; 
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Washington Post book critic Maureen Corrigan noted that “his latest crime novel, One-Shot Harry, is his 22nd book, and it returns Phillips to his personal and literary origins. ‘Harry’&nbsp;is an edgy time-travel ride back to L.A. in spring 1963, in the waning days of Golden Age L.A., when the Hollywood sign is splintering in the sun and racial tensions are escalating in advance of Martin Luther King Jr.’s upcoming Freedom Rally at the old Wrigley Field.” 
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Phillips is also a staff writer on FX’s Snowfall (which streams on Hulu), about crack and the CIA in 1980s South Central where he grew up.
Nathan Jefferson is the Noir editor of Los Angeles Review of Books.&nbsp;His short fiction has appeared in the&nbsp;Chicago Review.

Members Salon: South Central Noir - Los Angeles Review of Books

Over the past decade, the Los Angeles Review of Books has celebrated the art of translation and fought for the visibility of its practitioners by reviewing and publishing translations from dozens of the world’s languages in our pages. Throughout 2021, our anniversary year, we threw a monthly spotlight on translated work. This summer, at <a href="https://litlit.org/program" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-cke-saved-href="https://litlit.org/program">LITLIT</a> (the Little Literary Fair), we produced a&nbsp;panel on the art of translation, and esteemed translators Magdalena Edwards, Andrew Way Leong, Bruna Dantas Lobato,&nbsp;and Robin Myers shared insights into their methods and projects with an eager audience.
This summer, we honor this legacy and strengthen our commitment. We’re thrilled to launch The Los Angeles Review of Books + Yefe Nof Translation Residency, open to emerging translators of prose from any language who have not yet published a book-length collection of work. The winning translator will have the opportunity to complete and polish their translation of a short story, in consultation with LARB editor-in-chief and longtime literary translator Boris Dralyuk, during a two-week stay at Yefe Nof in Lake Arrowhead, California, from December 2 to December 16, 2022. The resident&#8217;s piece will be published in&nbsp;<a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/editions/qj/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-cke-saved-href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/editions/qj/">The&nbsp;LARB&nbsp;Quarterly</a>&nbsp;and in LARB online.
The 2022 residency application opens August 15 and closes September 14 at 11:59pm PST. Applications will be reviewed in September and finalists will be contacted in October. The winning translator will be announced in October.
<a href="https://airtable.com/shr238SLyks1KrDdb">APPLY HERE</a>
Learn more about Yefe Nof <a href="https://yefenof.com/emerging-translators-residency/">here</a>.
The Los Angeles Review of Books is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and relies on the support of our community to elevate new creators in the literary and cultural arts. Please consider making a contribution to these efforts <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/join/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-cke-saved-href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/join/">here</a>.
If you have any questions about the residency program, please write to LARB&#8217;s public programs manager, Kelly Peyton, at <a href="mailto:kelly@lareviewofbooks.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-cke-saved-href="mailto:kelly@lareviewofbooks.org">kelly@lareviewofbooks.org</a>.

The LARB + Yefe Nof Translation Residency Application Deadline - Los Angeles Review of Books

The Los Angeles Review of Books and Yefe Nof are thrilled to launch a new residency open to emerging translators of prose from any language who have not yet published a book-length collection of work.

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Inaugural Members Salon:&nbsp;Translation
with The LARB Quarterly contributors Lizzie Davis and Juan Cárdenas, 
moderated by LARB Editor in Chief Boris Dralyuk.
August 10, at 5pm, via Zoom
<a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZModu2rqzIiGNQuSDyVWdqbbGO4COIdEDzX" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Register Here.</a>
Not a member? <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/join" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Join today</a> and get access to member only perks, like these salons where 
we put you in conversation with poets, writers, critics, translators, and more.
Lizzie Davis is senior editor at Coffee House Press and a translator from Spanish and Italian to English. She is passionate about championing writing that subverts, challenges, and broadens narratives available to readers and has worked with writers including Valeria Luiselli, Alia Trabbuco Zerán, Mónica Ojeda, K-Ming Chang, and Aurora Mattia. Among her translations are Juan Cárdenas’s Ornamental (a finalist for the 2021 PEN Translation Prize) and The Devil of the Provinces; Elena Medel’s The Wonders, cotranslated with Thomas Bunstead; and work from Pilar Fraile Amador, Daniela Tarazona, and Aura García-Juncos.
Juan Cárdenas is a Colombian writer, art critic&nbsp;and translator, and author of the novels Zumbido&nbsp;(451 Editores, 2010/ Periférica, 2017), Los estratos (Periférica, 2013), Ornamento (Periférica, 2015), Tú y yo, una novelita rusa&nbsp;(Cajón de sastre, 2016), and El diablo de las provincias (Periférica, 2017).&nbsp;As a translator, he has translated works by American writers such as William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe and Gordon Lish, Portuguese author Eça de Queirós and Brazilian author Machado de Assis.

Inaugural Members Salon: Translation - Los Angeles Review of Books

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The second annual LITLIT, or The Little Literary Fair, returns to Hauser &amp; Wirth this July 30 &amp; 31, 2022!
The Los Angeles Review of Books and Hauser &amp; Wirth Publishers are thrilled to bring LITLIT back to Los Angeles this summer! LITLIT gives local small presses and literary arts organizations a unique, two-day opportunity to share their perspectives, books, and goods with Angelenos of all stripes at Hauser &amp; Wirth’s beautiful open-air courtyard in downtown L.A.’s Arts District.
Join us at 901 East 3rd Street on July 30 &amp; 31, from 11am to 6pm! Admissions is free, no ticket necessary!
Advance registration for free panel discussions and bookish activities opens July 5th! Registration is encouraged but not required. <a href="https://litlit.org/program">REGISTER NOW FOR PANELS AND WORKSHOPS</a>.
Visit litlit.org for the latest updates.
This year&#8217;s participants include: <a href="http://826la.org/">826LA</a> | <a href="http://www.alegriamagazine.com/">Alegría Publishing</a> | <a href="https://www.angelcitypress.com/">Angel City Press</a> | <a href="https://www.artoftea.com/">Art of Tea</a> | <a href="https://www.artbook.com/artbook-hw-la.html">Artbook</a> | <a href="https://www.beyondbaroque.org/">Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center</a> | <a href="https://www.brownpaperpress.com/">Brown Paper Press</a> | <a href="https://www.cenavegan.com/">Cena Vegan</a> | <a href="https://colourbloccreativ.com/">colour bloc creativ</a> | <a href="https://www.contodopress.com/">Con Todo Press</a> | <a href="http://contemporaryartreview.la/">Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla)</a> | <a href="https://delugebooks.com/">Deluge</a> | <a href="https://doppelhouse.com/">DoppelHouse Press</a> | <a href="https://drylandla.org/">Dryland Literary Journal</a> | <a href="http://dwellers.coffee/">Dwellers (ft. Canyon Coffee)</a>) | <a href="http://elliebakedit.com/">Ellie Baked It</a> | <a href="https://heavymannerslibrary.com/">Heavy Manners Library</a> | <a href="https://www.heydaybooks.com/">Heyday</a> | <a href="https://inlandiainstitute.org/">Inlandia Institute</a> | <a href="https://www.insertblancpress.net/">Insert Press</a> | <a href="http://www.inventorypress.com/">Inventory Press</a> | <a href="https://kaya.com/">Kaya Press</a> | <a href="https://www.lapoetsociety.org/about">Los Angeles Poet Society</a> | <a href="https://www.lapl.org/">Los Angeles Public Library</a> | <a href="https://new-documents.org/">New Documents / Fillip</a> | <a href="https://notacult.media/">Not a Cult</a> | <a href="https://shop.paperchasepress.com/">Paper Chase Press</a> | <a href="https://parallevarmag.com/">PARA LLEVAR Magazine</a> | <a href="https://pen.org/">PEN America</a> | <a href="https://www.pilaglobal.org/">PILAglobal</a> | <a href="https://www.rarebirdbooks.com/">Rare Bird</a> | <a href="https://redhen.org/">Red Hen Press</a> | <a href="http://www.semiotextes.com/">Semiotext(e)</a> | <a href="https://www.huntington.org/">The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens</a> | <a href="https://www.printmuseum.org/">The International Printing Museum</a> | <a href="https://thelosangelespress.com/">The Los Angeles Press</a> | <a href="https://villagewell.com/">The Village Well Books &amp; Coffee</a> | <a href="https://thelandmag.com/">theLAnd</a> | <a href="https://www.tiachucha.org/">Tía Chucha&#8217;s Centro Cultural and Bookstore</a> | <a href="https://www.catranslation.org/">Two Lines Press (Center for the Art of Translation)</a> | <a href="https://writers.uclaextension.edu/">UCLA Extension Writers&#8217; Program</a> | <a href="https://www.unnamedpress.com/">Unnamed Press</a> | <a href="http://www.whatbookspress.com/">What Books Press</a> | <a href="https://www.wordsuncaged.org/">Words Uncaged</a> | <a href="https://worldstagepress.org/">World Stage Press / Community Literature Initiative</a> | <a href="https://www.xartistsbooks.com/">X Artists&#8217; Books</a>
For questions about the event or press inquiries, contact LARB&#8217;s public programs manager, Kelly Peyton, at <a href="mailto:kelly@lareviewofbooks.org">kelly@lareviewofbooks.org</a>.
The health of our vendors and attendees is very important to us, and we will continue to carefully observe L.A. county&#8217;s guidelines for COVID-19 safety.
Accessibility: All public areas of Hauser &amp; Wirth Los Angeles are wheelchair-accessible. The gallery aims to be as accommodating as possible. If you or member(s) of your group require any special accommodations due to a disability, please contact <a href="mailto:kelly@lareviewofbooks.org">Kelly Peyton</a> in advance of your visit to discuss your requirements.
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ABOUT THE LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS
The <a href="https://protect-eu.mimecast.com/s/xgC-CGMX6fDNBECKMu8h/">Los Angeles Review of Books</a> is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and disseminating rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every aspect of literature, culture, and the arts. In addition to publishing lively, intelligent long-form writing online and in print, LARB&#8217;s civic arts programs increase access to the world of literary and cultural production. The <a href="https://protect-eu.mimecast.com/s/uCSzCJNK6t6WBlFGAiE_/">LARB Publishing Workshop</a> aims to revolutionize the publishing industry from the ground up by training and mentoring early-career talent from diverse backgrounds. Held annually at the close of the Publishing Workshop, <a href="https://protect-eu.mimecast.com/s/IvhSCKL7rHXyDPt3z_0D/">LITLIT</a> aims to strengthen public and institutional support for independent presses and innovative publishing projects.
ABOUT HAUSER &amp; WIRTH PUBLISHERS
Since its founding in 1992, <a href="https://www.hauserwirth.com/publishers/">Hauser &amp; Wirth Publishers</a> has presented unique, object-like books that encourage an understanding and appreciation of modern and contemporary art. Its backlist comprises monographs, artists’ books, exhibition catalogs, and collections of artists’ writings—often bringing new and overlooked aspects of an artist’s creative practice into focus. By commissioning original, in-depth scholarship to give thoughtful insight into featured art objects, Hauser &amp; Wirth Publishers aims to craft accessible, lasting records of artists’ work, ideas, and exhibitions.
​ABOUT HAUSER &amp; WIRTH LOS ANGELES
<a href="https://www.hauserwirth.com/locations/10069-hauser-wirth-los-angeles/">Hauser &amp; Wirth Los Angeles</a>, a vibrant communal space in the Arts District that links art and architecture with a dynamic events program, is the first West Coast outpost of Hauser &amp; Wirth, the international gallery devoted to contemporary art and modern masters. Hauser &amp; Wirth Los Angeles fosters public dialogue with the arts by supporting and collaborating with local nonprofits and universities, as well as through a range of activities that engage the city’s diverse population.

LITLIT (The Little Literary Fair) - Los Angeles Review of Books

The second annual LITLIT, or The Little Literary Fair, returns to Hauser & Wirth this July 30 & 31, 2022! The Los Angeles Review of Books and Hauser & Wirth Publishers are thrilled to bring LITLIT back to Los Angeles this summer! LITLIT gives local small presses and literary arts organizations a unique, two-day opportunity […]

The second annual LITLIT, or The Little Literary Fair, returns to Hauser &amp; Wirth this July 30 &amp; 31, 2022! The Los Angeles Review of Books and Hauser &amp; Wirth Publishers are thrilled to bring LITLIT back to Los Angeles this summer! LITLIT gives local small presses and literary arts organizations a unique, two-day opportunity […]

In partnership with Columbia University Press, the Los Angeles Review of Books presents a timely virtual conversation between publishing professionals, scholars, and activists on how conglomeration and data have shaped literary production and on what scales change is needed within the publishing industry. Moderated by LARB executive director Irene Yoon, the panel features Nicole Counts, senior editor at OneWorld; Jennifer 8. Lee, CEO of Plympton, activist, and documentary producer; Richard Jean So, associate professor of English at McGill University and author of Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction (Columbia, 2021); and Dan Sinykin, assistant professor of English at Emory University, co-founder and co-editor of the Post45 Data Collective, and author of forthcoming book The Conglomerate Era: How American Literature Was Made (Columbia).
Thursday, March 24 
5PM PST
This event is free and open to the public. Donations are welcome. 
All donations to this event go toward scholarships for LARB Publishing Workshop Fellows.
The event is hosted by the <a href="https://thepublishingworkshop.com/">LARB Publishing Workshop</a>, an educational program of the <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/">Los Angeles Review of Books</a> that seeks to revolutionize the publishing industry from the ground up by increasing access, facilitating change, and inspiring invention through the recruitment, training, and mentorship of early-career talent from diverse backgrounds. The Publishing Workshop is committed to helping all of our admitted applicants participate regardless of their ability to pay. Donations for this evening’s event are tax-deductible and will go toward scholarships for students to participate in this summer’s program. Donors who give $50 or more will receive a complimentary copy of Richard Jean So&#8217;s Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction (Columbia, 2021).
University partnerships for scholarships and corporate sponsorship packages for the Publishing Workshop are available. For more information about the Publishing Workshop or questions about this event, contact Lindsay Wright at lindsay@lareviewofbooks.org.

Sizing up the Publishing Industry: Innovation and Inclusion in the Conglomerate Era - Los Angeles Review of Books

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DEFIANT DEVOTION: Celebrating the Courageous Careers of Sandra Cisneros, Linda Hogan, and Ishmael Reed
The Los Angeles Review of Books is proud to honor three leading lights of contemporary literature, Sandra Cisneros, Linda Hogan, and Ishmael Reed, for their fearless, inimitable prose and verse and their lifelong commitments to rearing young writers of all backgrounds and smoothing the path to publication for Black, Latinx, and Indigenous writers. Together, they have launched independent presses, forged workshops with groundbreaking pedagogical methods, and foregrounded environmental justice, and, in so doing, transformed not just the literary establishment and contemporary canons, but our priorities as members of a democratic society. We look to them as models for artistic integrity, self-awareness, and new ways of relating and drawing near to each other in our fragmented world.
Continuing our honorees’ legacies, LARB has created a sponsorship ticket program for the event that allows ticket buyers to fund the attendance of local high school students. This year, we’re partnering with Los Angeles–based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations WriteGirl and 826LA to match students in their creative writing programs with our sponsorship ticket holders. The students will be invited to join us virtually and pose questions to the honorees during the event’s Q&amp;A segment.
This year’s event will also feature:
⬥ A special reading featuring our three honorees;
⬥ Tributes from writers Alex Espinoza, Daisy Hernández, Chelsea T. Hicks, John Keene, Julian Lucas, Daniel Olivas, Mona Simpson, Deanne Stillman, and Luis Alberto Urrea;
⬥ An intimate interview with the honorees; and
⬥ An audience Q&amp;A segment.
All attendees will receive a gift book bundle mailed to their homes featuring autographed copies of Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo (Sandra Cisneros), Solar Storms (Linda Hogan), and Mumbo Jumbo (Ishmael Reed).
Your ticket benefits the Los Angeles Review of Books, a 501(c)(3) public service nonprofit, and is tax-deductible.
For questions about the event or sponsorship opportunities, contact Kelly Peyton at kelly@lareviewofbooks.org.
Special thanks to Vintage Books and Scribner for their generous donations of books.

7th Annual LARB/UCR Department of Creative Writing Lifetime Achievement Awards - Los Angeles Review of Books

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Join the Los Angeles Review of Books as we celebrate ten years with a fun and festive evening featuring appearances and toasts by Jody Armour, Margaret Atwood, Reza Aslan, Victoria Chang, Dean Rader, Lynne Thompson, and more; giveaways of everything from tickets to our February 19 Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony honoring Sandra Cisneros, Linda Hogan, &amp; Ishmael Reed and annual LARB Book Club memberships to an autographed vintage typewriter from Tom Hanks&#8217;s special collection; readings from Steph Cha, Sarah Chihaya, and Kaya Genç, and the debut of our special 10th Anniversary Anthology edition of the LARB Quarterly Journal, featuring some of decade&#8217;s best writing! 
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The virtual celebration will take place on Zoom and serve as both the culmination of our year-long anniversary campaign and the official launch party for the QJ issue. Admission to the event is free, though we gratefully welcome donations and sponsorships in support of LARB’s continued work as a 501(c)(3) reader-supported nonprofit. All donations to this event will be doubled by the generosity of a tenth anniversary matching grant sponsor. Help secure LARB&#8217;s future—and be entered in for fun giveaways—at the same time!&nbsp; 
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Donation Levels
Free &#8211; Admission to the event. Share your support of LARB on social with registration before December 8 to be entered in the giveaway.&nbsp; 
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$25 &#8211; Admission to the event + digital copy of the special edition 10th Anniversary Anthology Quarterly Journal featuring handpicked favorite pieces from the last decade of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Share your support of LARB on social with registration before December 8 to be entered in the giveaway.&nbsp; 
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$75 &#8211; Admission to the event + a print copy of the special edition 10th Anniversary Anthology Quarterly Journal featuring handpicked favorite pieces from the last decade of the Los Angeles Review of Books mailed to your door. Share your support of LARB on social with registration before December 8 to be entered in the giveaway.&nbsp; 
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$150 &#8211; Admission to the event +&nbsp; a print copy of the special edition 10th Anniversary Anthology Quarterly Journal featuring handpicked favorite pieces from the last decade of the Los Angeles Review of Books mailed to your door. All donors of $150 or more will automatically be entered in the giveaway. 
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$250 &#8211; Admission to the event +&nbsp; a print copy of the special edition 10th Anniversary Anthology Quarterly Journal featuring handpicked favorite pieces from the last decade of the Los Angeles Review of Books + limited-edition 10th Anniversary tote bag mailed to your door. All donors of $250 or more will automatically be entered in the giveaway. 
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$500 &#8211; Admission to the event +&nbsp; a print copy of the special edition 10th Anniversary Anthology Quarterly Journal featuring handpicked favorite pieces from the last decade of the Los Angeles Review of Books + limited-edition 10th Anniversary tote bag + autographed book bundle mailed to your door.&nbsp; All donors of $500 or more will automatically be entered in the giveaway.
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All donors of $150+ are automatically entered into the giveaway. Alternatively, anyone can enter the giveaway with their event registration by posting your support of LARB with the hashtag #supportLARB and/or a sticker (shown after registration) to Twitter, Instagram or Facebook before December 8 to be entered in the giveaway. All prizes will be announced at the December 9 event. To claim your prize, you must be logged on to Zoom and present at the virtual event. One entry per person. Prizes may be gifted by winners to other recipients of their choosing.&nbsp; 
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Giveaway prizes include: 
Tickets to LARB&#8217;s 7th Annual LARB/UCR Lifetime Achievement Awards Ceremony honoring Sandra Cisneros, Linda Hogan, &amp; Ishmael Reed (valued at $250 each) ⬥ An autographed vintage typewriter from Tom Hanks&#8217;s special collection* ⬥ Autographed book bundles featuring works by 2021 LARB/UCR Lifetime Achievement Award Honorees Rita Dove, Joy Harjo, &amp; Juan Felipe Herrera&nbsp; ⬥ Annual Book Club memberships (valued at $200) ⬥ and more!&nbsp; 
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*Given fragile nature of item, this prize is reserved for Los Angeles County residents only.&nbsp;

LARB's 10th Birthday & Anthology Release Party - Los Angeles Review of Books

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LARB&#039;s 10th Birthday &amp; Anthology Release Party - Los Angeles Review of Books

<div id="magicdomid13" class="ace-line" data-node-type="line">In celebration of our 10th birthday, LARB is hosting a virtual series which we’re calling the Semipublic Intellectual Sessions&nbsp;— a month-long festival of ideas more accessible and wide-ranging than an academic conference yet more penetrating and measured than a Twitter debate. We invite you to join us for a season of smart, timely conversations with over two dozen leading writers, scholars, and critics that reflects the energy, breadth, and commitments of LARB as a publication over the last decade. Conversations will cover subjects ranging from technology and misinformation to leaving academia, the criminal justice system to the place of criticism, with each asking the question of where and how we locate critical conversations, cultural exploration, and calls to decisive action. Every event will be 90 minutes long. The sessions will feature both lively conversation among the discussants and a real-time Q&amp;A with the attendees. Download a full program guide <a href="https://losangelesreviewofbooks.box.com/shared/static/ud6otx9xokbatkj14t9z53s20a4nzq4m.pdf">here</a>.</div>
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Series Pass: Donate $75 or more and receive a full season pass, including auto-registration for all five main sessions, a limited edition Semipublic Intellectual tote, and copy of the new Semipublic Intellectual issue of the LARB Quarterly Journal.
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Individual Sessions: Sliding-scale donations ($5-50+) offer access to the individual sessions of your choice.
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Sponsorship: Media and advertising sponsorship opportunities are available. Contact Advertising Director Bill Harper at bill[at]lareviewofbooks.org for more information regarding sponsorship.
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<div id="magicdomid35" class="ace-line" data-node-type="line"><a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/events/session-1-wheres-the-discourse/">Session #1: Where is &#8220;The Discourse&#8221;?</a></div>
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<div id="magicdomid43" class="ace-line" data-node-type="line">From university classrooms, talk radio, and op-ed pages to Reddit, podcasts, Twitter, and more, sites of cultural conversation proliferate and grow ever more varied in scope, substance, and norms. What does it mean to cover culture or advocate change in this context? How has the emergence of so many new locations – and with them new critics and audiences – shaped, shattered, and meme-ified &#8220;the discourse&#8221;? Join the Los Angeles Review of Books for our inaugural Semipublic Intellection Session with cultural critics and writers Daphne Brooks (Liner Notes for the Revolution), Lexis-Olivier Ray (L.A. Taco), Lili Loofbourow (Slate), Sarah Marshall (You&#8217;re Wrong About), and Jesse McCarthy (Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?) on Thursday, October 7 at 5pm/8pm (PT/ET) to find out!</div>
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<div id="magicdomid54" class="ace-line" data-node-type="line">Where do critics come from, and where do they go? In many cases, careers in literary criticism begin in the university, and end up in diverse publications on either side of the public/academic divide. Join Andrea Long Chu (Females), K. Austin Collins (Rolling Stone), Lauren Michele Jackson&nbsp;(White Negroes, The New Yorker), and Christine Smallwood (The Life of the Mind) for a discussion of writing in and out of the academy, moderated by LARB Senior Editor Sarah Chihaya. What kinds of forms, arguments, and styles are made possible by breaking free from the spoken and unspoken rules of scholarly criticism? Conversely, upon leaving strictly academic writing, what might one miss?</div>
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<div id="magicdomid64" class="ace-line" data-node-type="line">A global pandemic, a national election, entire regions devastated by one natural disaster after another: new technologies have made it possible for us to track, grasp, and witness these large-scale phenomena in real time and in the palms of our hands. Tech platforms like Facebook and Twitter have encouraged a sense of community and mobilized action, even as they have facilitated the spread of misinformation and the formation of fissures in public life. How do we, as individuals and as communities, navigate technologies of information and misinformation? How much power do tech companies have in shaping public conversation, and how much power should they have? Join us for a conversation about these issues and more with writers and scholars Christoph Bieber (University of Duisburg-Essen), Safiya Noble (Algorithms of Oppression), and Anna Wiener (The New Yorker, Uncanny Valley), moderated by LARB Radio Hour hosts&nbsp;Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf&nbsp;on Thursday, October 21 at 1pm/4pm (PT/ET).</div>
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<div id="magicdomid86" class="ace-line" data-node-type="line">When the Los Angeles Review of Books was founded in 2011, the profession of book reviewing was in crisis. Traditional venues — the book pages of newspapers — were shrinking and vanishing, edging out serious conversations about new publications. Inspired by the near-infinite vistas of virtual space, LARB sought to rekindle those conversations online. But has the web been a blessing for book reviewing, or has proliferation of venues, poor compensation, and the hunger for clicks diluted and compromised the practice? Join us to discuss these pressing questions with critics Aaron Bady, Jane Hu, Christian Lorentzen, Julian Lucas, Ismail Muhammad,&nbsp;and LARB&#8217;s Editor-in-Chief Boris Dralyuk.</div>
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Semipublic Intellectual Sessions - Los Angeles Review of Books

A virtual festival of ideas for thinkers, readers, learners of all stripes celebrating 10 years of sharp, engaging, and wide-ranging conversations at the Los Angeles Review of Books. 

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