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Register for an inaugural LARB workshop! Reflections: A Poetry Workshop is a 6-week-long workshop with award-winning poet and LARB Poetry Editor Callie Siskel.
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Reflections: A Poetry Workshop - Los Angeles Review of Books

Reflections: A Poetry Workshop is a 6-week-long workshop with award-winning poet and LARB Poetry Editor Callie Siskel. The class will take place on Zoom on Wednesdays from May 8 until June 12 from 6-8 p.m. PST. Each participant will be able to submit their poetry for workshop and receive written feedback from the instructor. How […]

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Register for an inaugural LARB workshop! The Art of the Personal Essay is a 6-week-long workshop with award-winning memoirist, essayist, and children’s book writer, Nadja Spiegelman.

The Art of the Personal Essay - Los Angeles Review of Books

The Art of the Personal Essay is a 6-week-long workshop with award-winning memoirist, essayist, and children’s book writer Nadja Spiegelman. The class will take place on Zoom on Tuesdays from May 7 until June 11 from 6-8 p.m. PST. Each participant will be able to submit one (1) piece of writing for workshop and receive […]

Join LARB staff and members for our discussion of the latest Book Club pick, Blake Butler’s Molly!

LARB Book Club Discussion: “Molly” by Blake Butler - Los Angeles Review of Books

Join LARB staff and members for our discussion of the latest Book Club pick, Blake Butler’s Molly!

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9th Annual Lifetime Achievement Award - Los Angeles Review of Books

Join us on February 16th at Perch LA, located in the historic Pershing Square Building in downtown Los Angeles, for an intimate evening of drinks, dinner, and conversation as we celebrate 9th Annual LARB/UCR Dept. of Creative Writing Lifetime Achievement Award winners Dave Eggers, Rigoberto González, and Quincy Troupe. This award honors  contemporary writers for their fearless, highly […]

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Water Launch Party - Los Angeles Review of Books

Celebrate the 40th issue of the LARB Quarterly and the end of the elemental year with the launch of Water. In this milestone issue, our writers, artists, and poets use water as a prism through which we can more clearly see our human habits and the planet they destroy.  Join us on February 3 at […]

Join LARB staff and members for our discussion of the latest Book Club pick, E. J. Koh&#8217;s The Liberators!

LARB Book Club Discussion: “The Liberators” by E. J. Koh - Los Angeles Review of Books

Join the LARB Book Club on January 31 at 7 p.m. PST to discuss E. J. Koh’s debut novel, “The Liberators.”

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Join the host of Getty&#8217;s podcast <a href="https://www.getty.edu/recordingartists/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Recording Artists: Intimate Addresses</a> for a conversation and live podcast recording about some of the 20th century&#8217;s most influential artists as told through their private correspondence.

Intimate Addresses: Recording Artists Live at The Getty - Los Angeles Review of Books

This event is free with RSVP. Co-presented by The Getty and Los Angeles Review of Books. Getty’s archives are filled with artists’ letters that reveal their inner lives. What was it like to be Frida Kahlo or Marcel Duchamp? How did they relate to their friends, lovers, colleagues, and gallerists? Join the host of Getty’s […]

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Join us this season for a holiday market full of local publishing presses and vendors!
Los Angeles Review of Books is thrilled to announce the return of LITLIT (the Little Literary Fair), a free celebration of independent publishers from all over Los Angeles and the West Coast.

Holiday LITLIT - Los Angeles Review of Books

Join us this season for a holiday market full of local publishing presses and vendors! Los Angeles Review of Books is thrilled to announce the return of LITLIT (the Little Literary Fair), a free celebration of independent publishers from all over Los Angeles and the West Coast. As we prepare for our full-scale return in […]

LARB Book Club featuring Mobility by Lydia Kiesling
Wednesday, October 25, at 5 PM PST, via Zoom
LARB Members, <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvdOGrrD4iGNS0tRykpCTU-yulyQsm2lyr#/registration">Register Here</a>
All members are invited to join us and purchase a copy of Mobility at a bookstore 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 and offering 10% off.
Are you a subscriber or not a member and want to join these conversations? <a href="https://account.lareviewofbooks.org/forms/book-club" 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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The year is 1998, the End of History. The Soviet Union is dissolved, the Cold War is over, and Bunny Glenn is an American teenager in Azerbaijan with her Foreign Service family. Through Bunny’s eyes we watch global interests flock to the former Soviet Union during the rush for Caspian oil and pipeline access, hear rumbles of the expansion of the American security state and the buildup to the War on Terror. We follow Bunny from adolescence to middle age—from Azerbaijan to Houston, Texas—as the entwined idols of capitalism and ambition lead her to a career in the oil industry, and eventually back to the scene of her youth, where familiar figures reappear in an era of political and climate breakdown.
Both geopolitical exploration and domestic coming-of-age novel, Mobility is a propulsive and challenging story about class, power, politics, and desire told through the life of one woman—her social milieu, her romances, her unarticulated wants. Mobility deftly explores American forms of complicity and inertia, moving between the local and the global, the personal and the political, and using fiction’s power to illuminate the way a life is shaped by its context.
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“Mobility is a beautifully written and stunningly smart novel. It’s a deeply engrossing, politically astute tale of the intricacies and intimacies of our daily complicity with late capital, with the collective bargain we’ve all made to count calories and coins while the world burns.” —Namwali Serpell, author of The Furrows, Fall 2022 LARB Book Club title
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Lydia Kiesling is the author of <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/88241/9781250238115" data-cke-saved-href="https://bookshop.org/a/88241/9781250238115">The Golden State</a>, a 2018 National Book Foundation “5 under 35” honoree, and a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Her second novel, <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/88241/9781638930563" data-cke-saved-href="https://bookshop.org/a/88241/9781638930563">Mobility</a>, was published by <a href="https://zandoprojects.com/books/mobility/" data-cke-saved-href="https://zandoprojects.com/books/mobility/">Crooked Media Reads</a> in August 2023. Her essays and nonfiction have been published in outlets including The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker online, and The Cut.

LARB Book Club — Fall 2023 - Los Angeles Review of Books

Join the LARB Book Club on October 25 at 5 p.m. PST to discuss our Fall 2023 title, Lydia Kiesling’s newest novel, “Mobility.”

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In this elemental issue of LARB Quarterly, no. 39: Air, we aimed to look at the world from new vantage points. Writers took note of what was in the sky—the invisible pollutants and the all-too-visible police helicopters that patrol Los Angeles—and on the ways air, or breath, sustains or stifles us, the way it can bridge or divide one person from another.
Join us to celebrate the launch of our new issue at Stories on October 18 with readings from contributing writers Dan O&#8217;Brien, F. Douglas Brown, Katie Kadue, Kate McInerny, and Jacobo Pereira-Pacheco.
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Dan O’Brien joins us to read his poem, My Bird Promises Today a Story. He is an award-winning playwright, poet, librettist, and essayist. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Jessica, and their daughter Isobel.
F. Douglas Brown will read from his piece Hot Air Love. He is the author of two poetry collections, ICON, and Zero to Three, winner of the 2013 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Brown, an educator for over 25 years, currently teaches African American Poetry and African American Studies at Loyola High School of Los Angeles.
Katie Kadue will read from her work The Funny Thing About Misogony. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research on sixteenth-and seventeenth-century French and English literature explores relationships between domestic and poetic labor; agricultural and intellectual cultivation; and gender and genre.
Contributing co-authors Kate McInerny and Jacobo Pereira-Pacheco join us to read from their piece State Eyes in the LA Sky, authored by Nicholas Shapiro. Kate McInerny is a staff researcher with the Carceral Ecologies Lab at UCLA, where she recently earned her BA in Public Affairs. She also works as a digital historian for the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. Jacobo Pereira-Pacheco is a statistician and data scientist working with the Carceral Ecologies Lab at UCLA. He received his statistical education at UCSB and UCSC where he worked in various research groups—and outside of his prior academic institutions he worked as a data scientist in San Francisco.

Air Release Party - Los Angeles Review of Books

In this elemental issue of LARB Quarterly, no. 39: Air, we aimed to look at the world from new vantage points. Writers took note of what was in the sky—the invisible pollutants and the all-too-visible police helicopters that patrol Los Angeles—and on the ways air, or breath, sustains or stifles us, the way it can […]

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The Art of the Personal Essay

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LARB Book Club Discussion: “Molly” by Blake Butler

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9th Annual Lifetime Achievement Award

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Water Launch Party

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LARB Book Club Discussion: “The Liberators” by E. J. Koh

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Intimate Addresses: Recording Artists Live at The Getty

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Holiday LITLIT

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LARB Book Club — Fall 2023

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