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<p>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 <em>Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction </em>(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 <em>The Conglomerate Era: How American Literature Was Made</em> (Columbia).</p>
<p><strong>Thursday, March 24</strong><br />
<strong>5PM PST</strong></p>
<p><strong>This event is free and open to the public. Donations are welcome. </strong></p>
<p><strong>All donations to this event go toward scholarships for LARB Publishing Workshop Fellows.</strong></p>
<p>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. <strong>Donors who give $50 or more will receive a complimentary copy of Richard Jean So&#8217;s <em>Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction </em>(Columbia, 2021).</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>


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

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<p><strong>DEFIANT DEVOTION: Celebrating the <span class="mark6oiwd8xyq" data-markjs="true" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">Courageous</span> Careers of Sandra Cisneros, Linda Hogan, and Ishmael Reed</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>This year’s event will also feature:</p>
<p>⬥ A special reading featuring our three honorees;</p>
<p>⬥ Tributes from writers Alex Espinoza, Daisy Hernández, Chelsea T. Hicks, John Keene, Julian Lucas, Daniel Olivas, Mona Simpson, Deanne Stillman, and Luis Alberto Urrea;</p>
<p>⬥ An intimate interview with the honorees; and</p>
<p>⬥ An audience Q&amp;A segment.</p>
<p>All attendees will receive a gift book bundle mailed to their homes featuring autographed copies of <i><span class="mark5qwmkqmpo" data-markjs="true" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">Martita</span>, I Remember You/<span class="mark5qwmkqmpo" data-markjs="true" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">Martita</span>, te recuerdo </i>(Sandra Cisneros), <em>Solar Storms</em> (Linda Hogan), and <em>Mumbo Jumbo</em> (Ishmael Reed).</p>
<p>Your ticket benefits the Los Angeles Review of Books, a 501(c)(3) public service nonprofit, and is tax-deductible.</p>
<p>For questions about the event or sponsorship opportunities, contact Kelly Peyton at kelly@lareviewofbooks.org.</p>
<p>Special thanks to Vintage Books and Scribner for their generous donations of books.</p>


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

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<p>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!<br />
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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;<br />
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Free</strong> &#8211; Admission to the event. Share your support of LARB on social with registration before December 8 to be entered in the giveaway.&nbsp;<br />
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<strong>$25</strong> &#8211; Admission to the event + digital copy of the special edition 10th Anniversary Anthology <em>Quarterly Journal</em> 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;<br />
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<strong>$75</strong> &#8211; Admission to the event + a print copy of the special edition 10th Anniversary Anthology <em>Quarterly Journal</em> 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;<br />
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<strong>$150</strong> &#8211; Admission to the event +&nbsp; a print copy of the special edition 10th Anniversary Anthology <em>Quarterly Journal</em> 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.<br />
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<strong>$250</strong> &#8211; Admission to the event +&nbsp; a print copy of the special edition 10th Anniversary Anthology <em>Quarterly Journal</em> 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.<br />
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<strong>$500</strong> &#8211; Admission to the event +&nbsp; a print copy of the special edition 10th Anniversary Anthology <em>Quarterly Journal</em> 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.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">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;<br />
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<strong>Giveaway prizes include:</strong><br />
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;<br />
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<p>*Given fragile nature of item, this prize is reserved for Los Angeles County residents only.&nbsp;</p>


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

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<div class="align-left author-15146743955 lineAttribMarker"><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">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 (</span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium i"><i>Liner Notes for the Revolution</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">), </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">&nbsp;Lili Loofbourow (</span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium i"><i>Slate</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">),&nbsp;</span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">Sarah Marshall (</span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium i"><i>You&#8217;re Wrong About</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">), Jesse McCarthy (</span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium i"><i>Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i">),</span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium"> Lexis-Olivier Ray (<span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium i"><i>L.A. Taco</i></span>), on Thursday, October 7 at 5pm/8pm (PT/ET) to find out!</span></div>
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<div class="align-left author-15146743955 lineAttribMarker"><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-313131 font-size-medium"><strong>Daphne A. Brooks</strong> is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Music at Yale University. She is the author of </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-313131 font-size-medium i"><i>Bodies in Dissent:&nbsp; Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-313131 font-size-medium">, winner of The Errol Hill Award for Outstanding Scholarship on African American Performance from ASTR and </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-313131 font-size-medium i"><i>Jeff Buckley’s</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-313131 font-size-medium"> Grace. Her most recent book, </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-313131 font-size-medium i"><i>Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-313131 font-size-medium"> (Harvard UP, 2021) is the winner of the 2021 Museum of African American History Stone Book Award. She has written liner notes to accompany the recordings of Aretha Franklin, Tammi Terrell, Prince, and Nina Simone as well as stories for the </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-313131 font-size-medium i"><i>New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, and Pitchfork</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-313131 font-size-medium">.</span></div>
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<div class="ace-line" data-node-type="line"><span class="JsGRdQ"><strong>Lexis-Olivier Ray</strong>&nbsp;</span><span class="JsGRdQ">is&nbsp;a multimedia investigative staff reporter at the James Beard Award winning publication,<em> L.A. TACO</em>, as well as a filmmaker and artist. Based in Los Angeles, Ray has previously contributed to <em>Men&#8217;s Health</em> Magazine, the <em>L.A. Times</em>, <em>SFGATE</em>, <em>LAist</em> and <em>KCET</em>. Ray was a 2020 Center For Health Journalism Data Fellow and 2020 Ruben Salazar Awards finalist.</span></div>
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<div data-node-type="line"><strong>Lili Loofbourow </strong><span class="JsGRdQ">is a staff writer at </span><span class="JsGRdQ"><em>Slate</em>.</span><span class="JsGRdQ"> Prior to that, she was a culture critic at </span><em><span class="JsGRdQ">The Week</span></em><span class="JsGRdQ">. She co-founded </span><em><span class="JsGRdQ">Dear Television</span></em><span class="JsGRdQ">, and her work has also appeared in the </span><em><span class="JsGRdQ">New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Virginia Quarterly Review</span><span class="JsGRdQ">, </span></em><span class="JsGRdQ">and </span><em><span class="JsGRdQ">Best American Essays 2019.</span></em></div>
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<div data-node-type="line"><strong>Sarah Marshall </strong><span class="author-7987574745 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">is the co-host of the popular modern history podcast &#8220;You&#8217;re Wrong About,&#8221; which has been highlighted in </span><span class="author-7987574745 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>The New Yorker, The Guardian, </i></span><span class="author-7987574745 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">and </span><span class="author-7987574745 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>Time </i></span><span class="author-7987574745 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">magazine. Her writing has appeared in the </span><span class="author-7987574745 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>Believer, Buzzfeed, </i></span><span class="author-7987574745 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">and the true crime collection </span><span class="author-7987574745 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>Unspeakable Acts.&nbsp;</i></span></div>
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<div data-node-type="line"><strong>Jesse McCarthy</strong><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium"> is Assistant Professor in the departments of English and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. His articles and reviews are published or forthcoming in </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>Transposition, African American Review,</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium"> and </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>NOVEL</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">. He is a contributor to </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>Richard Wright in Context</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">, </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>Ralph Ellison in Context</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium"> (forthcoming), and </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>The Cambridge Companion to the Essay </i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">as well as a new introduction for the Norton Library edition of W.E.B. Du Bois’s </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>The Souls of Black Folk </i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">and an introduction for a new edition of Vincent O. Carter’s </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>The Bern Book</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium"> (Dalkey Archive, 2020). He is the author of </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium"> a collection of essays (Liveright, 2021), and a novel, </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>The Fugitivities</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium"> (Melville House, 2021).</span></div>
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<div>This event is part of LARB&#8217;s Semipublic Intellectual Sessions, a tenth anniversary celebration and fundraiser. Donate what you can to register for this event or make a contribution of $75+ to receive a full series pass, which includes automatic registration to all five events, a copy of the <em>Semipublic Intellectual&nbsp;</em>issue of the <em>LARB Quarterly Journal</em>, and a limited edition Semipublic Intellectual tote.</div>
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<div>Download a full program guide <a href="https://losangelesreviewofbooks.box.com/shared/static/ud6otx9xokbatkj14t9z53s20a4nzq4m.pdf">here</a>.</div>
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SPI Session #1 : Where's "the Discourse"? - Los Angeles Review of Books

SPI Session #1 : Where&#039;s &quot;the Discourse&quot;? - Los Angeles Review of Books

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<div class="align-left author-15146743955 lineAttribMarker"><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">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 (</span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium i"><i>Females</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">), K. Austin Collins (</span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium i"><i>Rolling Stone</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">), Lauren Michele Jackson (<em>White Negroes, The New</em> <em>Yorker</em>), and Christine Smallwood (</span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium i"><i>The Life of the Mind</i>) </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">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?</span></div>
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<div class="align-left author-15146743955 lineAttribMarker"><b><b>Andrea Long Chu </b></b><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-small"> is a writer and critic who lives in Brooklyn. Her book </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-small i"><i>Females </i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-small">was published by Verso Books in 2019.</span></div>
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<div class="align-left author-15146743955 font-size-medium lineAttribMarker"><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium"><strong>Sarah Chihaya</strong> is an assistant professor of English at Princeton University and Senior Editor at </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>the Los Angeles Review of Books. </i>She is one of four authors of <i><i class="">The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism</i></i> <span class="">(2020).&nbsp;</span></span></div>
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<div class="align-left author-15146743955 lineAttribMarker"><span class="author-15146743955 b font-color-000000 font-size-medium"><b>K. Austin Collins</b>&nbsp;is a film critic for&nbsp;<em>Rolling Stone.&nbsp;</em>He was formerly the film critic for&nbsp;<em>Vanity Fair</em>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<em>Ringer.&nbsp;</em>His writing has also appeared in the <em>Los Angeles Review of Books</em>,&nbsp;<em>Reverse Shot,</em>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<em>Brooklyn Rail.</em></span></div>
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<div><strong>Lauren Michele Jackson </strong>is an assistant professor of English at Northwestern University and a contributing writer at <em>The New Yorker</em>. She is the author of the essay collection <em>White Negroes</em> and is currently working on a second book, forthcoming with Amistad Press.</div>
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<div>This event is part of LARB&#8217;s Semipublic Intellectual Sessions, a tenth anniversary celebration and fundraiser. Donate what you can to register for this event or make a contribution of $75+ to receive a full series pass, which includes automatic registration to all five events, a copy of the <em>Semipublic Intellectual&nbsp;</em>issue of the <em>LARB Quarterly Journal</em>, and a limited edition Semipublic Intellectual tote.</div>
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SPI Session #2: On Leaving - Los Angeles Review of Books

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<div class="align-left author-15146743955 lineAttribMarker"><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">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 the Los Angeles Review of Books and the Thomas Mann House for a conversation about these issues and more with writers and scholars Christoph Bieber (</span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium">University of Duisburg-Essen</span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">)</span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">, Safiya Noble (</span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium i"><i>Algorithms of Oppression</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">), and Anna Wiener (</span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium i"><i>The New Yorker, Uncanny Valley</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">), moderated by LARB Radio Hour hosts, on Thursday, October 21 at 1pm/4pm (PT/ET).</span></div>
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<p><b><b>Christoph Bieber, </b></b><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">born 1970 in Laubach/Hesse is Professor of Political Science at the NRWSchool of Governance, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. The position is funded by the Johann-Wilhelm-Welker-Stiftung. His main area of research is ethics in political management and society. Christoph Bieber has published widely on the effects of online communication for political actors, a special focus is addressing the effects of digitalization for the US political system. Since 2018 he is delegated to the Center for Advanced Internet Studies in Bochum. On Twitter he is known as @drbieber.</span></p>
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<p><span class="author-7987574745 font-color-000000 font-size-medium"><strong>Safiya U. Noble</strong> is an Associate Professor of Gender Studies and African American Studies at the </span><span class="author-7987574745 font-size-medium">University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) </span><span class="author-7987574745 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">where she serves as the Co-Founder and Director of the </span><span class="author-7987574745 font-size-medium">UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2)</span><span class="author-7987574745 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">. She holds affiliations in the School of Education &amp; Information Studies, and is a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford where she is a Commissioner on the </span><span class="author-7987574745 font-size-medium">Oxford Commission on AI &amp; Good Governance (OxCAIGG)</span><span class="author-7987574745 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">. Dr. Noble is a board member of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, serving those vulnerable to online harassment. She is the author of a best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic bias in commercial search engines, entitled</span><span class="author-7987574745 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism </i></span><span class="author-7987574745 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">(NYU Press), which has been widely-reviewed in scholarly and popular publications.</span></p>
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<div data-node-type="line"><strong>Medaya Ocher </strong><span class="author-3772036704 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">is an Editor-at-Large at the Los Angeles Review of Books, where she previously served as the Managing Editor. She is also the co-host and producer of the LARB Radio Hour. She has worked in publishing for over 10 years, at publications like </span><span class="author-3772036704 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>W &amp; WWD, Teen Vogue</i></span><span class="author-3772036704 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">, </span><span class="author-3772036704 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>International Herald Tribune</i></span><span class="author-3772036704 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">, </span><span class="author-3772036704 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>Boom: A Magazine of California</i></span><span class="author-3772036704 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">. She earned her BA in English from Columbia University and her Master’s in English as part of the PhD program in English Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she also taught courses on literature, contemporary American fiction, and the essay form.&nbsp;</span></div>
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<div data-node-type="line"><b>Anna Wiener</b><span class="author-7987574745 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">&nbsp;is an author and writer. She writes about tech culture for </span><span class="author-7987574745 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>The New Yorker </i></span><span class="author-7987574745 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">and is the author of </span><span class="author-7987574745 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>Uncanny Valley </i></span><span class="author-7987574745 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">(MCD/FSG, January 2020), a book about her time working for Silicon Valley startups. Wiener grew up in Brooklyn, and currently lives in San Francisco.&nbsp;</span></div>
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<div data-node-type="line"><strong>Kate Wolf </strong>is a writer based in Los Angeles. She is one of the founding editors of the<em>&nbsp;Los Angeles Review of Books</em>, where she&#8217;s currently editor at large and cohost and producer of its weekly podcast. Her writing has appeared in <i>The Nation</i>, <i>Frieze</i>, <i>Art in America</i>, and many other publications.</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><em>Online Together is co-sponsored by</em>&nbsp;<em><a href="https://cup.columbia.edu">Columbia University Press</a> and&nbsp;</em><em>the Thomas Mann House, a residency center and space for transatlantic debate in Los Angeles, California | <a class="" href="http://vatmh.org/">vatmh.org</a></em></div>
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SPI Session #3: Online Together - Los Angeles Review of Books

<div data-node-type="line"><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">The law is the frontline in our ongoing battle to “create a more perfect union.” The decisions of our courts, and the laws enacted by our legislatures, reflect both our best aspirations and our worst misdeeds. The question of how law aligns with or, too often, works against the cause of social justice is once again at the center of legal, political, and public debates. Join us for a conversation with Jarrett Adams, lawyer, advocate, and author of </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>Redeeming Justice</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">, former LA Country District Attorney Gil Garcetti, and Loyola Law School Professor of Criminal Law, Laurie Levenson. Moderated by Gil Garcetti,&nbsp;</span><span class="author-3772036704 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">the panel will discuss the ways that racism has systemically infected the criminal justice system, and review reform measures, both proposed and enacted.</span></div>
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<div data-node-type="line"><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-color-1a211c font-size-medium font-size-small"><strong>Jarrett M. Adams</strong>, a top criminal defense and civil rights attorney, is the author of </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-color-1155cc font-size-medium font-size-small i link-MTYzMTMyMTc4OTE3OS1odHRwczovL3d3dy5wZW5ndWlucmFuZG9taG91c2UuY29tL2Jvb2tzLzYyNDE1Ny9yZWRlZW1pbmctanVzdGljZS1ieS1qYXJyZXR0LWFkYW1zLzk3ODA1OTMzOTU5MDU="><a class="link" href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/624157/redeeming-justice-by-jarrett-adams/9780593395905" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-attrib-id="MTYzMTMyMTc4OTE3OS1odHRwczovL3d3dy5wZW5ndWlucmFuZG9taG91c2UuY29tL2Jvb2tzLzYyNDE1Ny9yZWRlZW1pbmctanVzdGljZS1ieS1qYXJyZXR0LWFkYW1zLzk3ODA1OTMzOTU5MDU="><i>REDEEMING JUSTICE: From Defendant to Defender, My Fight for Equity on Both Sides of a Broken System</i></a></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium font-size-small"> (Convergent / Penguin Random House, 9/14/21) and co-founder of the nonprofit </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-color-1155cc font-size-medium font-size-small link-MTYzMTMyMTc4OTIyMy1odHRwczovL3d3dy5saWZlYWZ0ZXJqdXN0aWNlLm9yZy8="><a class="link" href="https://www.lifeafterjustice.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-attrib-id="MTYzMTMyMTc4OTIyMy1odHRwczovL3d3dy5saWZlYWZ0ZXJqdXN0aWNlLm9yZy8=">Life After Justice</a></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-color-1155cc font-size-medium font-size-small u"><u>, </u></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium font-size-small">a nonprofit dedicated to preventing wrongful convictions and building an ecosystem of support and empowerment for exonerees. Visit </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-color-1155cc font-size-medium font-size-small link-MTYzMTMyMTc4OTIzMi1odHRwOi8vd3d3LmphcnJldHRhZGFtcy5jb20v"><a class="link" href="http://www.jarrettadams.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-attrib-id="MTYzMTMyMTc4OTIzMi1odHRwOi8vd3d3LmphcnJldHRhZGFtcy5jb20v">Jarrett Adams Law</a></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium font-size-small"> for more information; follow on&nbsp; </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-color-1155cc font-size-medium font-size-small link-MTYzMTMyMTc4OTIzOS1odHRwczovL3d3dy5pbnN0YWdyYW0uY29tL2phcnJldHRhZGFtc2xhdy8="><a class="link" href="https://www.instagram.com/jarrettadamslaw/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-attrib-id="MTYzMTMyMTc4OTIzOS1odHRwczovL3d3dy5pbnN0YWdyYW0uY29tL2phcnJldHRhZGFtc2xhdy8=">Instagram</a></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium font-size-small">, </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-color-1155cc font-size-medium font-size-small link-MTYzMTMyMTc4OTI0Ny1odHRwOi8vd3d3LnR3aXR0ZXIuY29tL2phcnJldHRhZGFtc2xhdw=="><a class="link" href="http://www.twitter.com/jarrettadamslaw" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-attrib-id="MTYzMTMyMTc4OTI0Ny1odHRwOi8vd3d3LnR3aXR0ZXIuY29tL2phcnJldHRhZGFtc2xhdw==">Twitter</a></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium font-size-small">, </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-color-1155cc font-size-medium font-size-small link-MTYzMTMyMTc4OTI1NC1odHRwczovL3d3dy5saW5rZWRpbi5jb20vaW4vamFycmV0dC1hZGFtcy05YjQ1NWIxNjM="><a class="link" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jarrett-adams-9b455b163" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-attrib-id="MTYzMTMyMTc4OTI1NC1odHRwczovL3d3dy5saW5rZWRpbi5jb20vaW4vamFycmV0dC1hZGFtcy05YjQ1NWIxNjM=">LinkedIn</a></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-color-222222 font-size-medium font-size-small">,</span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium font-size-small"> and </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-color-1155cc font-size-medium font-size-small link-MTYzMTMyMTc4OTI2OS1odHRwOi8vd3d3LmZhY2Vib29rLmNvbS9qYXJyZXR0YWRhbXNsYXc="><a class="link" href="http://www.facebook.com/jarrettadamslaw" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-attrib-id="MTYzMTMyMTc4OTI2OS1odHRwOi8vd3d3LmZhY2Vib29rLmNvbS9qYXJyZXR0YWRhbXNsYXc=">Facebook.</a></span></div>
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<div class="align-left author-15146743955 lineAttribMarker"><span class="author-15146743955 b font-color-000000 font-size-medium"><b>Gil Garcetti – </b></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">A prosecutor with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office for 32 years, eight of which he was the elected District Attorney (1992-2000), Gil Garcetti oversaw 1100 prosecutors, placed a special focus on combatting domestic violence, and initiated specific programs designed to prevent crime. After leaving office, he taught a seminar at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government entitled “The Interaction of the Criminal Justice System, Race, Politics, and the Media”. He has also been a frequent speaker on his various photo projects, career change, the death penalty, and especially on empowering women and girls in West Africa by building bore hole wells in rural villages. In 2002, he published his first photo essay book, </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>Iron: Erecting The Walt Disney Concert Hall</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">. His subsequent nine books have all been photo essays, including </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>Dance in Cuba</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">, </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>Water is Key</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">, </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>Paris: Women &amp; Bicycles</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">, and </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>Japan: A Reverence For Beauty</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">. All of his books are discussed on his website, </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium link-MTYzMTMyMjEzMzkyNi1odHRwOi8vd3d3LmdhcmNldHRpLmNvbS4v"><a class="link" href="http://www.garcetti.com./" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-attrib-id="MTYzMTMyMjEzMzkyNi1odHRwOi8vd3d3LmdhcmNldHRpLmNvbS4v">www.garcetti.com.</a></span></div>
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<div class="align-left author-15146743955 lineAttribMarker"><span class="author-15146743955 b font-color-000000 font-size-medium"><b>Laurie Levenson – </b></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">While in law school, Laurie Levenson was chief articles editor of the </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>UCLA Law Review</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">. After graduation, she served as law clerk to the Honorable James Hunter III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. In 1981, she was appointed assistant United States Attorney, Criminal Section, in Los Angeles, where she was a trial and appellate lawyer for eight years and attained the position of senior trial attorney and assistant division chief. Levenson was a member of the adjunct faculty of Southwestern University Law School from 1982–’89. She joined the Loyola faculty in 1989 and served as Loyola’s associate dean for academic affairs from 1996–’99. She has been a visiting professor at UCLA School of Law and a D&amp;L Straus distinguished visiting professor at Pepperdine University School of Law. Professor Levenson currently leads the following programs at Loyola Law School: Capital Habeas Litigation Clinic, The Fidler Institute annual symposium, and the Project for the Innocent.</span></div>
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SPI Session #4: Redeeming Justice - Los Angeles Review of Books

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<div data-node-type="line"><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium"><strong>Ismail Muhammad</strong> is a story editor at the </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>New York Times Magazine</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">. He was previously the criticism editor for </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>The Believer</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">. His nonfiction and criticism have appeared in </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>Catapult,</i></span> <span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>The Paris Review</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">, </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>LitHub, The Atlantic, The Nation</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">, and other venues. He lives in Oakland.</span></div>
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<div data-node-type="line"><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium"><strong>Boris Dralyuk</strong> is the Editor in Chief of the </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium i"><i>Los Angeles Review of Books</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">. He is co-editor (with Robert Chandler and Irina Mashinski) of </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium i"><i>The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">, editor of </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium i"><i>1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium"> and </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium i"><i>Ten Poems from Russia</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">, and translator of Isaac Babel, Andrey Kurkov, Maxim Osipov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, and other authors. His work has appeared in the </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium i"><i>Times Literary Supplement</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">, </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium i"><i>The New York Review of Books</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">, </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium i"><i>London Review of Books</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">, and elsewhere.</span></div>
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<div>This event is part of LARB’s Semipublic Intellectual Sessions, a tenth anniversary celebration and fundraiser. Donate what you can to register for this event or make a contribution of $75+ to receive a full series pass, which includes automatic registration to all five events, a copy of the&nbsp;<em>Semipublic Intellectual&nbsp;</em>issue of the&nbsp;<em>LARB Quarterly Journal</em>, and a limited edition Semipublic Intellectual tote.</div>
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<div>Download a full program guide&nbsp;<a href="https://losangelesreviewofbooks.box.com/shared/static/ud6otx9xokbatkj14t9z53s20a4nzq4m.pdf">here</a>.</div>
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SPI Session #5: Under Review - Los Angeles Review of Books

<div id="magicdomid13" class="ace-line" data-node-type="line"><span class="author-3772036704 font-color-222222 font-size-medium">In celebration of our 10th birthday, LARB is hosting a virtual series which we’re calling the </span><span class="author-3772036704 b font-color-222222 font-size-medium i"><b><i>Semipublic Intellectual Sessions&nbsp;</i></b></span><span class="author-3772036704 font-color-222222 font-size-medium">— 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. </span><span class="author-3772036704 font-color-222222 font-size-medium">Conversations will cover subjects ranging from technology and </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-222222 font-size-medium">misinformation </span><span class="author-3772036704 font-color-222222 font-size-medium">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>.</span></div>
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<div id="magicdomid17" class="ace-line" data-node-type="line"><span class="author-3772036704 font-color-222222 font-size-medium">The series is a fundraiser for LARB, a 501(c)(3) reader-supported nonprofit. We invite attendees to make donations for access to each event to help make the work of our staff and contributors possible as we continue to publish great writing and podcasts for free to the public for the next ten years to come.</span></div>
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<p><em><strong><span class="author-3772036704 font-color-222222 font-size-medium">Series Pass: </span></strong></em><span class="author-3772036704 font-color-222222 font-size-medium">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 </span><span class="author-3772036704 font-color-222222 font-size-medium i"><i>Semipublic Intellectual </i></span><span class="author-3772036704 font-color-222222 font-size-medium">issue of the </span><span class="author-3772036704 font-color-222222 font-size-medium i"><i>LARB Quarterly Journal.</i></span></p>
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<div id="magicdomid43" class="ace-line" data-node-type="line"><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">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 <strong>Daphne Brooks</strong> (</span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium i"><i>Liner Notes for the Revolution</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">), <strong>Lexis-Olivier Ray</strong> (</span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium i"><i>L.A. Taco</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">), <strong>Lili Loofbourow</strong> (</span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium i"><i>Slate</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">), </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium"><strong>Sarah Marshall</strong> (</span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium i"><i>You&#8217;re Wrong About</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">), and <strong>Jesse McCarthy</strong> (</span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium i"><i>Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium i"><i>)</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium"> on <strong>Thursday, October 7 at 5pm/8pm (PT/ET)</strong> to find out!</span></div>
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<div id="magicdomid54" class="ace-line" data-node-type="line"><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">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 <strong>Andrea Long Chu</strong> (</span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium i"><i>Females</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">), <strong>K. Austin Collins</strong> (</span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium i"><i>Rolling Stone</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">), <strong>Lauren Michele Jackson&nbsp;</strong>(<em>White Negroes, The New Yorker</em>), and <strong>Christine Smallwood</strong> (</span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium i"><i>The Life of the Mind) </i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">for a discussion of writing in and out of the academy, moderated by LARB Senior Editor <strong>Sarah Chihaya</strong>. 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?</span></div>
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<div id="magicdomid64" class="ace-line" data-node-type="line"><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">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 <strong>Christoph Bieber</strong> (</span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium">University of Duisburg-Essen</span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-000000 font-size-medium">)</span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">, <strong>Safiya Noble</strong> (</span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium i"><i>Algorithms of Oppression</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">), and <strong>Anna Wiener</strong> (</span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium i"><i>The New Yorker, Uncanny Valley</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-1d1c1d font-size-medium">), moderated by LARB Radio Hour hosts&nbsp;<strong>Medaya Ocher </strong>and <strong>Kate Wolf</strong>&nbsp;on Thursday, October 21 at 1pm/4pm (PT/ET).</span></div>
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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. 

Semipublic Intellectual Sessions - Los Angeles Review of Books

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<p>China&#8217;s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is now roughly sixty years in the past.&nbsp;Its sheer scale&nbsp;makes the Cultural Revolution unique.&nbsp;Even as it has been acknowledged in China and abroad, the&nbsp;volume and severity of its purges, censorship, and social engineering campaigns are still largely misapprehended.&nbsp;Significant aspects of this historical event and its aftermath are still largely unknown to the general reading public and scholars alike. This panel gathers writers who have recently tackled the Cultural Revolution in academic and public-facing writing to share their insights into its intricacies, its cultural landscapes, and the challenges of truth-telling that arise in connecting the personal to the political. Our goal is to introduce new work and new thinking on a historical event — a calamity — that was designed to be apprehended slowly, if at all. In the process, we nominate it as one of the most cognitively difficult objects of our time, worth reexamining not only for the sake of justice and the historical record, but also for our collective grasp of contemporary phenomena.</p>
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<p>Organized by Nan Da &amp; LARB Humanities Editor Anna Shechtman.</p>
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<div class="align-left author-15146743955 lineAttribMarker"><span class="author-15146743955 b font-color-222222 font-size-medium"><b>Frank Dikötter</b></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-222222 font-size-medium"> is Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. Before 2006 he was Professor of the Modern History of China at the University of London. He has published a dozen books, including a trilogy that documents the impact of communism on the lives of ordinary people in China on the basis of new archival material. The first volume in the People&#8217;s Trilogy, entitled </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-222222 font-size-medium i"><i>Mao&#8217;s Great Famine,</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-color-222222 font-size-medium"> won the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2011. He is also Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and holds an honorary doctorate from Leiden University.</span></div>
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<div class="align-left author-15146743955 lineAttribMarker"><span class="author-15146743955 b font-size-medium"><b>Guo Jian</b></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium"> is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He co-authored the </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium i"><i>Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium"> (Rowman &amp; Littlefield, 2006, 2015) and co-edited the </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium i"><i>Database of the Chinese Political Campaigns</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium"> (Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Chinese University of Hong Kong Center for Modern China Studies, 2002–2014). He is also a translator (with Stacy Mosher) of several books, including Yang Jisheng’s </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium i"><i>Tombstone: the Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium"> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012) and </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium i"><i>The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium"> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016), Tan Hecheng’s </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium i"><i>The Killing Wind: A Chinese County’s Descent into Madness during the Cultural Revolution</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium"> (Oxford University Press, 2017), and Gao Hua’s </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium i"><i>How the Red Sun Rose: The Origins and Development of the Yan’an Rectification Movement</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium"> (Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2018).</span></div>
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<div class="align-left author-15146743955 lineAttribMarker"><span class="author-15146743955 b font-size-medium"><b>Jie Li</b></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium"> is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities at Harvard. In addition to&nbsp;</span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium"><em>Utopian Ruins</em>, she is the author of </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium i"><i>Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium"> and co-editor of </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium i"><i>Red Legacies in China: Afterlives of the Communist Revolution</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium">. Her forthcoming book, </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium i"><i>Cinematic Guerrillas: Maoist Propaganda as Spirit Mediumship</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium">, explores film exhibition and reception in socialist China. Li’s writings have appeared in journals such as </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium i"><i>Grey Room</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium">, </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium i"><i>Screen</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium">, </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium i"><i>positions: asia critique</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium">, </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium i"><i>The Journal of Chinese Cinemas</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium">, and </span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium i"><i>Public Culture</i></span><span class="author-15146743955 font-size-medium">.</span></div>
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