The Los Angeles Review

Kat Meads – on Madam Lenin, Sleeplessness, and Writing Like A Man

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Registration is now open for our Summer Online Workshops with courses in Memoir Writing with Tanya Chernov, author of A Real Emotional Girl, Flash Fiction with Stefanie Freele, author of Feeding Strays and Surrounded by Water, and Travel Writing with Ann Beman, Nonfiction Editor of The Los Angeles Review. Read More

The other day my wife and I had a serious talk, the kind of talk where both parties need to be sitting down, the kind of talk where tears are shed. The gist of the talk was this: Should I keep pursuing this creative writing “dream?” Read More

Authors can spend a lot of time thinking and talking about audiences, especially our ideal audiences. Read More

Judge Us Not By the Color of Our Skin, But the Content of Our Books: Interviews On Race, Writing and the Limits of Subject Matter, Jason McCall and B.J. Hollars. Read More

When I began translating Saadat Hasan Manto, a fellow writer—a mentor, and moreover one sympathetic to my interest in India and its literature—told me a market publishing house would never touch it. I suggested that he didn’t know how good it was. He said it didn’t matter; Urdu was too far removed from people’s expectations. Read More