Editor-in-Chief Brian Dunlap’s unpublished book review on Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo’s debut poetry collection “Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge,” originally written in 2017. “In poems of her family living in Boyle Heights and her Chavez Ravine poems, Bermejo brings this true Chicanx L.Á.—away from the overused tropes of a lack of history, of being without, of L.Á. is Hollywood—to the fore.” Continue reading Posada: Finding Home
Ryka Aoki discusses her new novel “Light from Uncommon Stars,” set in the San Gabriel Valley, about a queer violinist, immigration, aliens; her writing process; and her process in writing the novel. Continue reading We Do What We Can: A Coversation With Ryka Aoki
By Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo
FROM: LARB
SEVENTEEN AND HIGH, Nikki Darling swaggers down the middle of Garvey Boulevard, a busy thoroughfare in the San Gabriel Valley, as cars swerve around her: “‘Three Days’ by Jane’s Addiction is playing on my Walkman and I feel like I’m in a movie, like I’m an assassin.” She stands in the street with a cigarette hanging from her lips, with “someplace to be or maybe nowhere to go.” She taunts the cars as they pass: “Fly around me, motherfuckers! Fly around me like I’m not even here!”
Continue reading “Invisible No More: How “Fade Into You” Reflects the L.A. Chicanx Experience”
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