By Jessica

Virtual Velocity by Anthony Mora is the story of the curious creation of pop phenomena, Jake Jenkins, America’s most renowned and successful literary novelist. Spanning six decades, through three interconnected stories, Virtual Velocity follows Jake from a sixteen-year-old learning about literature and women, to frenetic rock journalist, to struggling literary novelist, to world-famous author. Journeying through L.Á.’s rock and literary worlds, it is also an homage to the city, tracking its internal and external changing landscape and its cultural shape shifting.

Virtual Velocity explores the complicated and often mystifying intersection between fame and art.Virtual Velocity is the story of the curious creation of pop phenomena, Jake Jenkins, America’s most renowned and successful literary novelist. Spanning six decades, through three interconnected stories, Virtual Velocity follows Jake from a sixteen-year-old learning about literature and women, to frenetic rock journalist, to struggling literary novelist, to world-famous author. Journeying through L.Á.’s rock and literary worlds, it is also an homage to the city, tracking its internal and external changing landscape and its cultural shape shifting. Virtual Velocity explores the complicated and often mystifying intersection between fame and art.

Anthony Mora’s first novel, BANG! A Love Story, was published in hardback in 1998. BANG! was rereleased in softcover in 2005. Linda Cardellini starred in the original play adaptation of BANG! at the Acme Theater in Los Angeles and The American Place Theater in New York. Anthony, whose works have been compared to Pinter, Fante and Nabokov, began his career as a journalist and magazine editor.

Anthony served as the playwright-in-residence at The Sidewalk Studio Theatre in Burbank, California. The Sidewalk produced Anthony’s plays, P.O.P.: The Principles of Perfection, Bang! A Love Story, and Modern Love. Silencing Silas premiered in 2012, as a part of PL.A.Y NOIR, at The Actor’s Workout Studio in North Hollywood, California. The play was also produced in 2015 at VCU’s Newdick Theatre in Richmond, Virginia. In 2016, Stages premiered Celebrity Confessions in Los Angeles.

He worked with fine-artist Rachel Tribble on The Resurrection of Light, a collaborative narrative which is a work in metal leaf, words and watercolor. The first major exhibition of The Resurrection of Light was shown at the Denise Justice Art Gallery in Stuart, Florida. The work was also exhibited at the Exhibit Up Gallery in Orange County and the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles A staged reading of his play Hang Fire was performed in Los Angeles in 2018.

Anthony’s latest novel, Virtual Velocity: An L.A. Story, will be turned into a play titled Ricochet, adapted from a chapter of Virtual Velocity, which will premiere in Los Ángeles in 2020. Mora’s novel called BANG! A Love Story, was also turned into a play in 2006 & starred Linda Cardelini.