Kindred Spirits
In Lynell George’s “A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky,” she uncovers the psyche of author and Pasadena native Octavia E. Butler. Continue reading Kindred Spirits
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Joan Didion’s California Captured in Sweeping New Collection
By Lynell George
FROM: Los Angeles Times
The sequence is as predictable as the season itself: The calendar reads “fall” but the thermometer registers 90-plus. The Santa Ana winds kick up. Wildfires zipper across the landscape. Once again Joan Didion whispers in the Southland’s collective ear.
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A Storied Los Angeles Club for African American Women Looks to the Future
by Lynell George
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It doesn’t take much to envision a certain wide stretch of Los Angeles’ West Adams Boulevard in its early 20th century glory—when traffic floated by at a genteel pace and carefully spaced rows of stately homes peeked out from sumptuous gardens. Taken together, it embodied the sweet dream of the West.
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Los Ángeles Writers Publish in 2018
As 2018 draws to a close, it’s been another year of publishing success for Los Ángeles writers and the Los Angeles literary community. As the months went by, writers published novels, essay collections, poetry collections, edited anthologies or announced their books had been accepted for publication in 2019 and even 2020. Congratulations to all these scribes and for penning important works. Some of these books, such as Erica Ayón’s Orange Lady, which recounts the author’s experience as an immigrant growing up in South Central Los Angeles, where her family sold oranges on the street in order to survive, and Lynell George’s essay collection After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame, focused on Los Angeles beneath-the-surface, both the past and the here-and-now, explores who and what L.A. is from different personal lived experiences. Showing how the political is personal.
Lynell George Sings Los Angeles
Lynell George writes about Los Ángeles, its changing landscape, rooted in personal experience.
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Los Angeles Literature Events 3/19/18 –3/25/18
Presumed Incompetent Poetry Reading at Cal Lutheran University
Please join us for a poetry reading with Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs, author and first editor of the revolutionary volume, Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia. She has written articles, poetry, collections, and encyclopedia entries. Her book, How Many Indians Can We Be, is forthcoming from Mango Press. She recently published The Runaway Poems with Finishing Line Press, and edited a collection of Chicana and Chicano literary criticism for the University of Arizona Press.
Where: Swenson Center 101, Cal Lutheran
Date: Monday the 19th
Time: 3:30 pm – 5 pm
Address: 60 West Olsen Rd., Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Website: http://www.callutheran.edu/calendar/event/4160#event
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Los Angeles Literature Events 3/13/18 –3/18/18
Artist Talk at Otis College of Art and Design
Please join us for a conversation with graphic designer and editor Benedikt Reichenbach, to discuss his thoughts and work as a book designer. He is now working on an English re-edition of Pier Polo Pasolini: Corpi e Luoghi, a book that today is still what a critic called it at the time of its publication in 1981, the most Paolininan book to date.
Where: The Forum, Otis College of Art and Design
Date: Tuesday the 13th
Time: 11 am – 12:15 pm
Address: 9045 Lincoln Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: http://www.otis.edu/calendar/visiting-artist-lecture-benedikt-reichenbach
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Local writer Lynell George wins Grammy for ‘Otis Redding Live at the Whisky A Go Go’
by RANDY LEWIS
From: L.A. Times
The L.A. connection is strong in the winner of the Grammy Award for album notes.
It was awarded to veteran music writer, and former Times staff writer, Lynell George, for her notes for the box set “Otis Redding Live at the Whisky A Go Go: The Complete Recordings,” documenting the soul singer’s incendiary performances at the West Hollywood nightclub in 1966.
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