L.A. Man: Profiles from a Big City and a Small World
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016
We Dropped a Bomb on You: The Best of Slake I-IVVenice: How a forgotten corner of ‘70s LA gave birth to modern skateboarding
From the collection Weird Scenes Inside The Goldmine: Los Angeles in the 19070s,” Rarebird Lit, David Kukoff editor. Except originally appeared in Huck Magazine, November 2016 Photography © Rick McCloskey AS MAJOR EVENTS GO, this one may not rank up there with Alaskan statehood, the advent of NASA, or even that April fifteenth day when […]
O. Henry Prize Stories Collection Is Here!
Joe Donnelly’s “Bonus Baby” brings us to the ball game but from inside the very center, from the pitcher’s point of view. The story takes place during a game—not just any game but a possible perfect game. We see how the pitcher’s life has led him to this moment. The pitcher’s tics, familiar to any […]
Scott Mitchell: The Pull of Space and Light
Published by Treats! Magazine Image © Steve Shaw IF YOU’VE EVER DRIVEN up the Pacific Coast Highway looking for a piece of sandy respite away from the maddening crowds, or maybe you’re lucky and this stretch is your way home, you’ve probably noticed Nobu restaurant, a sleek slice of contemporary modernism on the beach side […]
“Bonus Baby” Selected for 2016 O. Henry Prize Collection
ANNOUNCING THE 2016 O. HENRY PRIZE STORIES THE BEST SHORT FICTION OF THE YEAR May 19, 2016 By Literary Hub We are very happy to announce the O. Henry Prize Stories for 2016, edited by Laura Furman, which will appear in an eponymous anthology this September, from Anchor. Read selected stories here: […]
Burdens and Privileges
March 9, 2016 / Los Angeles Review of Books Burdens by Water: An Unintended Memoir, by Alan Rifkin, Published 2016-02-23, Brown Paper Press, 214 Pages ALAN RIFKIN has been something of a talismanic figure in my life. I’m sure this is news to him because despite his generous thanks to me in the back of Burdens by Water: An Unintended […]
