Los Angeles Review of Books

The LITLIT raffle series is back! We’ll be announcing our raffle bundles all day long, featuring your favorite LA stores, museums, theaters, and restaurants. LITLIT is only 5 days away—see you there. Items, gifts, memberships, and more from A.Shin, Alcove Cafe, Everybody.World, Lucca Mart, Reparations Club, Suay Shop, The Social Club, Block Shop Textiles, Bob Baker, Candid Home, Cinefile Video, Clare V., Dewy Monday, Fairmont Spa, honey hi, Huntington Gardens, LA Conservancy, LACMA, Lulu Restaurant, Monty’s Good Burger, Museum of Jurassic Technology, North Figueroa Bookshop, Remainders, The Philosophical Research Society, Tom of Finland, Videotheque, and Vidiots.

There's only 2 days left to register for our fall workshops! Don't miss out on the opportunity to develop your writing and research skills in our two workshops with Nadja Spiegelman and Lauren Markham. Head to https://lnkd.in/gvnyMP8z for more.

Last but not least, join us at LITLIT 2024 for "Bodies and the Literary Landscape," a panel conversation on how publishing's attitude towards bodies has shifted in a myriad of ways in the past decade. From feminist body horror to fat representation to stories of chronic illness and mental health, form and genre plays a key part in how writer's explore self and subject. Join writers Sarah Rose Etter, Sarah LaBrie, Emma Specter, in addition to editor Allison Miriam Woodnutt as they discuss with LARB editor-in-chief Medaya Ocher the interplay of body as metaphor and storytelling mode. https://lnkd.in/ghyMDe2J

Less than a week less until registrations for our fall writing workshops close! Craft your personal essay with Nadja Spiegelman, or put your research into prose with Lauren Markham—registrations close on Oct 29. https://lnkd.in/gvnyMP8z

For our third panel of LITLIT 2024, Los Angeles Review of Books presents Poetry Hour. Curated by Elizabeth Metzger and Callie Siskel, Los Angeles Review of Books poetry editors, we'll be featuring a series of readings from SoCal poets including Allison Hedge Coke, Katie Ford, Douglas Manuel, Natalie Shapero, and Sarah Yanni. https://lnkd.in/gSy3KTjS

We're excited to announce our next LITLIT 2024 panel, “On Adaptation,” a conversation on the experience of taking a book to the screen! Authors Viet Thanh Nguyen and Anna Dorn, author and TV writer Jonathan Ames, as well as cultural critic Jane Hu, will discuss what it’s like to see their work, and others, be adapted for Hollywood. The conversation will be led by Paul Thompson, an editor and critic. Join us as we discuss how Hollywood’s interests have influenced the literary landscape, from what gets published to what gets written, and why we’ve seen such a rise in adaptation in recent years. https://lnkd.in/gqDTgDgt

LITLIT 2024 is so soon, and we're thrilled to announce the first of our four panels! UCLA Humanities presents "Writing For Your People," a panel conversation highlighting publications that are produced in response and proximity to the communities they serve. Moderated by Summer Kim Lee and featuring representatives from campus publications Westwind (UCLA) and Word Magazine (UCSB), Cal State LA professor Ren Heintz, and Words Uncaged founder Bidhan Chandra Roy, this panel will dive into how people produce, envision, and execute their publications that serve their community. https://lnkd.in/gZezwQwW

How do we incorporate our research while keeping air in the text? Join us for Writing with Research, a 6-week-long workshop with award-winning writer and researcher Lauren Markham. https://lnkd.in/gYX5Sj3V

What are the stories you alone need to tell? Join us this fall for The Art of the Personal Workshop, a 6-week-long workshop with award-winning memoirist, essayist, and children’s book writer Nadja Spiegelman. https://lnkd.in/gEkpJUmW

In "Writing with Research" with Lauren Markham, we will attend to the questions of how we transform the fruits of our research into vivid, meaningful prose. Through assigned readings, in-class exercises, large- and small-group discussions, and workshopping of participants’ prose, this class will serve as the container for a deep inquiry into the art and craft of fact-based creative work. Register by October 30. https://lnkd.in/gYX5Sj3V