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The Sisterhood 2014 gathering inspired a young woman to write about the new bonds of friendship she now feels with all the young women who attended.
The first L.A. Letters of 2014 looks at three early iconic books focused on Los Angeles.
Books and love for Los Angeles form the backbone of this column, along with California history, urban studies, architecture, and poetry with some selected fiction. This week L.A. Letters looks at the past year in books.
Nestled between Pasadena, South Pasadena, San Gabriel, San Marino, El Sereno, City Terrace and Monterey Park, Alhambra is one of the oldest suburbs in Los Angeles County, dating back to the arrival of the transcontinental railroad and the boom of the 1...
This week L.A. Letters honors celebrated poet and essayist Wanda Coleman, who passed last week.
This week L.A. Letters unpacks the politics of preservation via two books published by the University of California Press: "California Vieja" and "Tokyo Vernacular," and examines a historic location of Japanese-American history in Huntington Beach.
This week L.A. Letters honors Light, Eagle Rock and Filipino/a history in Southern California.
This week L.A. Letters spotlights two poets, who both in their own way create ultramodern poetry of collision that inevitably answers metaphysical questions as it unfolds and unravels.
In the last three decades Monterey Park became known as the first city and suburb in America to have an Asian majority. Advertised in Asia as the "Chinese Beverly Hills," the city's unique social history has made it the subject of several books in the ...
In November, the San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival celebrates 30 years of wise words, compelling speakers and loyal listeners.
This week L.A. Letters salutes Leimert Park's the World Stage, reinforces its importance, and draws the connection between other community arts organizations like Tuesday Night Café, Sunday Jump, Punk Hostage Press and Espacio 1839.
The common bond between the two books is that they both take place in Los Angeles and offer an alternative vision, pregnant with hope and what really could be.