LARB PRESENTS AN EXCERPT from Peter B. Kaufman’s The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge, out today from Seven Stories Press. ¤ In Too Loud a Solitude, Bohumil Hrabal’s comic allegory about the life of the printed word in Czechoslovakia, the wise fool Hanta — Hrabal’s hero — works... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2021-02-23 16:00:42 UTC ]
LARB PRESENTS AN EXCERPT from Julia Ingalls’s forthcoming book on the L.A. River revitalization, The 40 Year Artwork, featuring extensive conversations with Lewis MacAdams, who passed away on April 21. ¤ BEING A POET Lewis MacAdams waits until after the nurse has closed his door to snicker.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-05-24 17:00:44 UTC ]
LARB presents this exclusive excerpt from Graffiti, the inaugural anthology from artist collective POC United, published this week by Aunt Lute Books. ¤ WHERE ARE YOUR WORDS welcome? Where do you have permission to scribble, scrawl, romanticize, speculate, brag, retaliate, and narrate your own... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-10-16 17:00:52 UTC ]