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Website. lareviewofbooks .org. OCLC. 904358349. The Los Angeles Review of Books ( LARB) is a literary review magazine covering the national and international book scenes. A preview version launched on Tumblr in April 2011, and the official website followed one year later in April 2012. A print edition premiered in May 2013.
Gary Phillips (born August 24, 1955) is an American writer, editor, and community activist whose 1994 novel Violent Spring is considered a classic work of crime fiction [1] and one of the essential crime novels about Los Angeles. [2] His more than two dozen books range from hard-boiled mysteries such as the acclaimed Ivan Monk series to graphic ...
James Brown (born 1957, Santa Clara, California) is an American novelist who has also written short fiction and nonfiction. His third memoir, Apology to the Young Addict, is the last of a trilogy dealing with addiction, recovery, and helping others achieve sobriety. His acclaimed first memoir, The Los Angeles Diaries (HarperCollins, 2003), is ...
Author and USC professor Percival Everett joins the Los Angeles Times Book Club on Nov. 16 to discuss "Dr. No" at the Autry Museum. ... 34 books including novels, poetry, short story collections ...
1960–1974. Status. Retired. Rank. Patrolman. Detective sergeant. Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh Jr. (born January 22, 1937) [1] is an American writer known for his fictional and nonfictional accounts of police work in the United States. Many of his novels are set in Los Angeles and its surroundings and feature Los Angeles police officers as ...
Nationality. American. Education. University of Massachusetts (BA) Stanford University (PhD) Notable awards. American Book Award (2008) Website. www.tomlutzwriter.com. Tom Lutz (born March 21, 1953) [ 1 ][ 2 ] is an American writer, literary critic and the founder of the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Michael Ryan Davis (March 10, 1946 – October 25, 2022) was an American writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian based in Southern California. He was best known for his investigations of power and social class in works such as City of Quartz and Late Victorian Holocausts. His last two non-fiction books were Set the Night on ...
Book Prize for Fiction. The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, established in 1980, is a category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, though they may be written originally in languages other than English.