In late July, Los Angeles lost one of its great cultural figures, Jonathan Gold, and in this digest we’re featuring Michael Jaime-Becerra’s beautiful tribute to the man, as well as a number of pieces on the city’s history and its literary life, then and now. — LARB Editorial
The Monthly Digest: August 2018
The Hat: Remembering Jonathan Gold
Michael Jaime-Becerra offers his thanks to legendary food writer Jonathan Gold.
Naomi Hirahara’s Los Angeles
Mike Sonksen profiles Naomi Hirahara, author of the Mas Arai mystery series.
David Lynch’s Sacred Clay
Does David Lynch and Kristine McKenna's hybrid biography-memoir "Room to Dream" offer the key to unlocking Lynch's film work?
A Holocaust in Slow Motion: On Kelly Lytle Hernández’s “City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, And The Rise Of Human Caging In Los Angeles, 1771-1965”
Mary F. Corey reviews “City of Inmates” by Kelly Lytle Hernández, a historical account of mass incarceration and genocide in Los Angeles.
Loneliness on My Hands: A Conversation with Maggie Nelson
Clare Shearer speaks to Maggie Nelson about “Something Bright, Then Holes,” reissued by Soft Skull Press last month.
Writer’s Brains: The Lasting Worth of Alfred Hayes
Alex Harvey surveys the career of Alfred Hayes, a 20th-century American poet, novelist, and screenwriter.
“Danger Blue”: Dana Goodyear Interviews Carol Muske-Dukes
Dana Goodyear talks to poet Carol Muske-Dukes about her new collection, the slipping mask of poetry, and the first poet laureate of California.
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