Today’s post is from LARB Channel Avidly. By Pete Coviello I am not a sports fan. It’s true, I watch a …
Reading Jeter’s Joy
September 2014
The Odysseys of Homer
Photo: Monica Neuwens This essay was commissioned for The L.A. Odyssey Project, a month-long, city-wide exploration of Homer’s epic poem …
Stop Hunting Ishi
Photo: Portrait of Ishi by E.H. Kemp, July 1912. Courtesy of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology and the Regents …
The Generalissimo’s Ghost
By Jeffrey Wasserstrom “In Taiwan, Teens Protest Statues Honoring Former Ruler Chiang Kai-shek,” Los Angeles Times headline, August 11, 2014 Like other …
Introduction to Young Adult Week, From YA Editor Cecil Castellucci
Photo: Cecil Castellucci, our Young Adult Fiction Editor. School’s started. In just a few hours (10:29 p.m. EDT) it will …
Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs Art and Essay Contest Winners
Photo: J. Soto-Gonzalez, first prize art contest winner ages 14–18 Let us congratulate Lizeth and Zulema for the impossible trek …
Right to Raft
Photo: Nadine Cordial By Elizabeth Lauren Winkler There’s a quality to youthful American summers that sets those childhoods apart. I’ve …
Robert Buscemi, of Surprise! Comedy, Nominated for Andy Kaufman Award
In early August LARB AV ran a feature on a new Los Angeles comedy circuit called Surprise! Comedy. One of …
Take Me Out to the Ballgame, in Taipei
By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham At precisely 6:35pm on a Thursday night, exactly as scheduled, the ChinaTrust Brother Elephants took the …
Futures Past
Today’s post was originally published on LARB Channel Boom, which describes it as “exploring California landscapes with the San Francisco Estuary …
