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Dreading Those Sunny Days: The Perils of Surviving Without Shade as a Homeless Person

Dreading Those Sunny Days: The Perils of Surviving Without Shade as a Homeless Person

Sam Bloch Shines Light on How Sun Relief as an Economic Resource in the Era of Capitalism and Climate Change

By Sam Bloch | August 8, 2025

A City of Dreams and Dreamers: Ella Berman on Writing About Los Angeles

A City of Dreams and Dreamers: Ella Berman on Writing About Los Angeles

“There is no doubt that if anyone is capable of rebuilding and renewing, it is Los Angeles.”

By Ella Berman | August 7, 2025

Khadijah Queen on What It’s Like to Write Poetry on a Naval Destroyer

Khadijah Queen on What It’s Like to Write Poetry on a Naval Destroyer

“I’d steal a moment to write future me into existence, or to write my way through my feelings after another tedious day.”

By Khadijah Queen | August 6, 2025

Against Erasure: Preserving the Memory of Black Communities in Los Angeles and Across the Country

Against Erasure: Preserving the Memory of Black Communities in Los Angeles and Across the Country

Arianne Edmonds on the Intellectual and Political Legacy of Her Great-Great-Grandfather, Jefferson Lewis Edmonds

By Arianne Edmonds | June 11, 2025

Matthew Specktor Remembers His Mother as a Young Woman Struggling to Find Her Place in Los Angeles

Matthew Specktor Remembers His Mother as a Young Woman Struggling to Find Her Place in Los Angeles

“All of this suggests not a person who’s simply afraid to be late, but rather one who is running: who remains, always, in flight.”

By Matthew Specktor | April 24, 2025

The Annotated Nightstand: What Sonya Walger Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Sonya Walger Is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Niall Williams, Mary Oliver, Muriel Spark, and Others

By Diana Arterian | February 13, 2025

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Eve and Joan: Exploring the Tumultuous Friendship of LA’s Literary Ladies

Eve and Joan: Exploring the Tumultuous Friendship of LA’s Literary Ladies

Lili Anolik on the Irresistible Draw of Eve Babitz and Joan Didion, Two Iconic Chroniclers of California

By Lili Anolik | November 12, 2024

Beyond Saviors and Suffering: On the Complex Dynamics of Animal Rescue

Beyond Saviors and Suffering: On the Complex Dynamics of Animal Rescue

Carol Mithers Explores the Relationships Between Stray Dogs and the Humans Who Love Them

By Carol Mithers | August 26, 2024

Bigoted Bookselling: When the Nazis Opened a Propaganda Bookstore in Los Angeles

Bigoted Bookselling: When the Nazis Opened a Propaganda Bookstore in Los Angeles

Evan Friss on Hitler’s Attempt to Win Americans Over to His Cause

By Evan Friss | August 21, 2024

James Ellroy Reveals the Real Reason He Writes

James Ellroy Reveals the Real Reason He Writes

"I’m writing this essay in the spirit of atonement. My ongoing biography should be revised to reflect this."

By James Ellroy | September 7, 2023

Liska Jacobs on Leaving Los Angeles, City of “Impermanence and Unreliability”

Liska Jacobs on Leaving Los Angeles, City of “Impermanence and Unreliability”

Finding Kinship with Eve Babitz and Joan Didion

By Liska Jacobs | July 19, 2022

California State of Mind: Searching for Didion and Babitz in Literary Los Angeles

California State of Mind: Searching for Didion and Babitz in Literary Los Angeles

Marianne Eloise on Two of Her Favorite Writers—Who Could Not Be More Different

By Marianne Eloise | July 5, 2022

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