The Los Angeles Review

During The Third Week of our Fiction Workshop, Fiction Editor Stefanie Freele Pesters Staff and LAR Contributor Heather Freese about Style and Technique.

Nancy  Boutin– Prose Editor

What styles or techniques (prose) have you read too much of? not enough of? Read More

Rants Raves Reviews gives us rave! Check out it out here.

We’re proud to dedicate LAR Issue 9 to Bruce Holland Rogers. Check out his story, “The Frog Prince,” in The Sun Magazine:

“For the first hundred years at the bottom of the well, the frog prince rehearsed his memoir…”

How can I distill 530 rejection letters into a few paragraphs? What can I say about rejection that hasn’t already been said by 1,000 other writers in 1,000 other ways? Maybe nothing. But what I can do is tell you how it feels to be on both sides of the rejection process. Read More

Teaching “Ozymandias” in the Valley

I was told by the team leader to teach “Ozymandias” on Friday. Read More

I’ve been thinking about what it means to be a “West Coast” writer—and, particularly, a writer from LA. I only began to see this West Coast-ness after I made it into an East Coast graduate school. It was there, among the rolling New England countryside, that I learned about Lacrosse and boarding schools and a certain long-standing literary tradition I was only exposed to in books. Read More