By Gabriel San Román
FROM: TimesOC

For naysayers, Orange County’s literary scene is as barren as the citrus orchards that once dominated its landscape but have long since been bulldozed to make way for suburban blandness. O.C. supposedly traded its tart to be trite.

But that’s never held true for Andrew Tonkovich, a recently retired UC Irvine English lecturer and author who’s made a mission of appraising the paper trail left behind by the county’s roster of writers while looking forward to the future first drafts of its ongoing legacy.

Along with Lisa Alvarez, his wife, Tonkovich co-edited “Orange County: A Literary Field Guide” five years ago. The sweeping anthology with selections from more than 60 writers, past and present, proved groundbreaking and rattled the reputation that preceded its namesake.

Following up on that effort, Tonkovich is now readying the launch of “Citric Acid,” a new online literary journal debuting this weekend. Its inauguration is a highly curated assemblage of the county’s contemporary scribes ready to kick off the publication’s mission one quarterly issue at a time. Read Rest of Article Here