The Inland Empire has long been stereotyped by the rest of Southern California—dismissed as “just the area east of Los Ángeles.” On October 11th, Riverside hosted the IE’s first-ever book festival, bringing together local voices, writers, and community members to celebrate in telling its own stories. Continue reading The Inland Empire Now Has its Own Book Festival
“I want people to see that violence creates more violence. I grew up being frisked…I saw trauma inside and outside of my home and was told that wasn’t trauma.” Continue reading A Quick interview with Gina Duran
In UC Riverside Professor Susan Straight’s 10th novel, “Mecca,” it “has fictional characters — but all are inspired by true stories or events that have occurred in the Inland Empire.” Continue reading Susan Straight Releases New Novel, ‘Mecca’
By Brian Dunlap
This summer two local literary journals—Pomona Valley Review and Dryland: A Literary Journal Based in South Central L.A.—released their latest issues.
Continue reading “Two Local Literary Journals Have A Summer Release”
By Janet Kinosian
FROM: L.A. Times
Certain books give off the sense that you won’t want them to end, so splendid the writing, so lyrical the stories. Such is the case with Southern California novelist Susan Straight’s new memoir, “In the Country of Women.”
Los Angeles Literature 