Poetry. Kim Calder brings the heartfelt sense of loss to bear on her raw, funny, and heartbreaking debut collection of poems. "As a first book which portends many more to come, it ranks with Sharon Olds' Satan Says, Dorianne Laux's Awake, and Richard Jones' Country of Air"--Jack Grapes. "Kim Calder doesn't kid herself. Her poems are full of sharp, swift observations that turn around, at the last minute, to trip the poet up--and that's after she's already caught us, her readers, in the act of hoping she'll go easy on us. No such luck. These are sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking, and always well-wrought. I'm eager for them to find their readers. But look out--they already know what you're thinking"--Chris Nealon.

Who's to Say What's Home

Literature & Fiction

Calder, Kim

Poetry

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Drama. Playwriting. Writing Reference. YOU ALREADY KNOW ingeniously uses exercises to end-run the enemies of creative freedom (intellectual over-analysis, fear, self-doubt, a tendency to get stuck in familiar patterns) and open the heart and mind of the playwright to fresh, imaginative possibilities. In highly entertaining fashion, Aaron Henne prods, charms and cajoles the reader through roughly 80 writing exercises, helping each of us find our play by asking the right questions of ourselves and of the world.

You Already Know: A Playwright's Guide to Trusting Yourself: Practical Exercises to Open the Channel

Henne, Aaron

Dramas & Plays

The second collection by Los Angeles poet Chiwan Choi explores the arc of his life, and that of his family, through an alien abduction mythology.

Abductions

Choi, Chiwan

History of Butoh

Anderson, Khadija

In Eulogy to an Unknown Tree, the dense, challenging, and stunning debut collection from Billy Burgos, the poet explores the journeys he has taken -- as a child immigrant growing up in South Central LA, as a grown son dealing with his father's death, as a man grieving the loss of a lover -- anchoring all the grief to a nameless tree by which he spoke to his father for the last time.

Eulogy to an Unknown Tree

Burgos, Billy

Antidote

Peixoto, José Luís

Short Stories & Anthologies

Hollywood Notebook is a prose poem-ish memoir of fragments. Ortiz takes us through the streets of Los Angeles and the internal maps she's charting as she moves from her twenties to her thirties in a studio apartment in Hollywood. A cartography of love, loss, and transformation, Hollywood Notebook is a portrait of the author's psyche overlaid on a map of the city she makes her home.

Hollywood Notebook

Biographies & Memoirs

Ortiz, Wendy C.

Memoirs

This book is a selection from the three books that I published so far. 'A Child in Ruins' is the title of the first of these books. A Crianca em Ruinas (A Child in Ruins), first published in 2001 A Casa, a Escuridao (The House, the Darkness), first published in 2002 Gaveta de Papeis (Drawer of Papers), first published in 2008 The selection of the poems was made by me with some suggestions by Hugo. 'A Child in Ruins' was awarded the Award of the Portuguese Society of Authors for the best poetry book of that year. 'Gaveta de Papeis' was awarded the Daniel Faria Award for poetry. This is the first time 'A Child in Ruins' has been translated into English."

A Child In Ruins

Within a short amount of time, Alan Nakagawa found himself in the midst of several artist-in-residence opportunities. It started with the Getty Villa and then the Los Angeles Department of Transportation. Within a few years, Nakagawa had a half of dozen completed or in the mix. And then the emails started coming. Artists wanted to meet with Nakagawa to find out how this happened. To quote The Talking Heads: "Well, how did I get here?" Like his artwork, this book is not a straight line nor a soundbite. This book is Nakagawa's attempt to answer that question through diary entries, sketches, ideas and concepts. A.I.R. Head is a history of one artist's journey through his life, his personhood and his career.

A.I.R. Head: Anatomy of an Artist In Residence

Arts & Photography

Nakagawa, Alan

Individual Artists

Together we are alive in a city of destiny. I am still alive in Los Angeles!
The poems and essays in Letters to My City combine two decades of field experience, research, personal observations, and stories told to the author, a third-generation Los Angeles native, by his grandfather and other family members, to interrogate all sides of Los Angeles, its streets, its people, its neighborhoods, as a means to examine the postmodern metropolis.

Letters to My City

Sonksen, Mike

History & Criticism

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