Anna Kovatcheva was born in Bulgaria and now lives in Brooklyn. She holds an MFA in fiction from New York University. Her chapbook, The White Swallow, was selected by Aimee Bender as the winner of the Gold Line Press Chapbook Competition; her short fiction has been anthologized in...
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Bonne Fête Nationale!
July 14 is the French national holiday, marking the date in 1789 when a Parisian mob stormed the Bastille, officially kickstarting the French Revolution—the first of many, but certainly the most notable. As Louis XVI asked the Duc de la Rochefoucauld at the time, Is it a revolt?
Interview With Zine Maker - Yumi Sakugawa
Yumi Sakugawa is a second-generation Japanese-Okinawan-American interdisciplinary artist, and the author of several published books including I Think I am in Friend-Love With You: Your Ill
Celebrating the Dream: The Pursuit of Liberty and Happiness in America
Ramin Naderi, Acting Senior Librarian, Venice - Abbot Kinney Memorial Branch Library, Thursday, July 8, 2021
What happens to a dream deferred if you never take the first step to actually achieving it? Our journey began with a dream deeply rooted in the passionate pursuit of liberty and happiness in a new land.
Interview With an Author: Daryl Gregory
Daryl Gregory was the 2009 winner of IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award for his first novel Pandemonium.
Central Library – Welcome Back
A few words come to mind about my practice as an Art Librarian with roots in both academic and studio experiences—scribe, space, and light. I work in the Los Angeles Central Library.
Read it First: Streaming Stories
With Los Angeles County cases of Covid-19 falling and vaccination rates going up, life is slowly resuming a sense of normalcy. Restaurants are allowing indoor dining service, movie theaters are reopening and we’re all ready to breathe a sigh of relief.
Interview With an Author: Jean Hanff Korelitz
Jean Hanff Korelitz is the author of the novels You Should Have Known (which aired on HBO in October 2020 as The Undoing, starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant, and Donald
The Lesbian "Dead Sea Scrolls": Anne Lister’s Diaries
Anne Lister (1791–1840), often referred to as ‘the first modern lesbian,’ was a wealthy, independent British landowner, businesswoman, and prolific diarist.
Discover LGBTQIA Los Angeles: Morris Kight Residence
Los Angeles has over 1,200 Historic-Cultural Monuments, yet only a dozen have been designated because of their association with the LGBTQIA community.
The Lost Novel of Forman Brown
In 1987, an elderly gentleman named Forman Brown stepped inside the indie bookstore, A Different Light Books, at 4014 Santa Monica Blvd in search of a novel.