The Los Angeles Review is a semiannual journal of divergent literature with a West Coast emphasis. Established in 2003, LAR publishes both the stories of Los Angeles, endlessly varied, and those that
This new and necessary book—a collection of author profiles, literary journalism and speculative pieces about the Southland's writing and publishing scene—aims to capture the Southern California of he
"Volando bajito is a strong, raw, transparent book that makes us tremble. Readers can feel every poem with their entire body, their entire soul. Alicia Partnoy had to fly low, otherwise she couldn't h
The Switchback family has inhabited Crawford County since before the War Between the States, and it has eked out an existence, and even prospered, by virtue of hard work and honesty. Peter Switchback,
A disillusioned office bureaucrat in the afterlife has come to realize thatmaybe heaven isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Bored by the endless routineof work, golf, and vegan food, he finds his one sav
From a writer who master poet Seamus Heaney described as one “who risks much both stylistically and emotionally” comes52 Men. Taut, spare and highly compressed autobiographical fiction for the mobile
Road Trip is a collection of autobiographical essays that honor the places, people and other living creatures that have given shape and meaning to one man’s life. Framed by essays about the life and d
In this entertaining and inspiring memoir, renowned educator Paul Cummins candidly shares his journey from privileged kid and ivory-tower scholar to hands-on progressive educator, working to achieve s
Mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, husbands, wives, friends—they all get into the act in Michael Mirolla’sLessons in Relationship Dyads. Harsh lessons, sweet lessons, bitter lessons
In these poems are letters to a dead husband, Armenian, English/German ancestry, marriage, illness and death, recovery and the bloody spine of war, always war, with hard won wisdom, acceptance and pro
A Life Above Water is a cycle of poems that examines both the natural and human worlds and explores the boundaries between the two. The manuscript is concerned with personal ecologies and mythologies
Both daring and exacting, Torn from the Sun, journeys through the ensnarements of mortality. The poems’ meditations, rendered in supple language and form, invite us to step along with the likes of Miy
The Los Angeles Review is a literary journal of divergent literature with a West Coast emphasis. Established in 2003, LAR publishes both the stories of Los Angeles, endlessly varied, and those tht gro
Luba, an invented female consciousness, is someone who loves travel, astronomy, poetry, sex, among other varied interests. She has her private sorrows as well as high kicks and thrills. She’s an imagi
Gaylord Brewer’s ninth collection of poetry, Country of Ghost, is by turns harrowing, haunted, and darkly humorous, and always deeply felt. When the figure Ghost appears—crossing a bridge in Spain, be
Cruising at Sixty to Seventy is the second book from award-winning poet Jim Tilley. In three sections?Dear Wife, Dear Self, Dear Friends?the speaker, a physicist and mathematician by education, now re
For a couple struggling with infertility, conception is a war against their bodies. Blood and death attend. But when the war is won, and life stares, hungry, in the parents’ faces, where does that vio
As a small child, Josiah believed that his father’s absence could be explained by the simple fact that he was a high ranking alien official on the planet Parnuckle. It explained so much else, too, lik
