Cali Cali -- Three Lives from LA
Episode Summary
Three emerging women writers discuss using nontraditional forms for an unconventional city, writing a polyvocal landscape for a polyvocal world, publishing with an independent press, and why women write LA better than anybody.
Participant(s) Bio
Veronica Gonzalez's fiction has been published or is forthcoming in many literary magazines and anthologies, including Bomb, The Massachusetts Review and Juncture: 25 Very Good Stories and 12 Excellent Drawings, an innovative cross-genre anthology she co-edited for Soft Skull Press. She has written on art for magazines and exhibition catalogues, and in 2004 began Rocky Point press, a small limited-editions press which produces handmade silk-screened books of artist-writer collaborations. twin time: or, how death befell me, her first novel, received the 2008 Premio Aztlan Literary Award for fiction.
Vanessa Place is a writer and lawyer, and co-director of Les Figues Press. She is the author of Dies: A Sentence, a 50,000-word, one-sentence novella; the post-conceptual novel La Medusa, and Notes on Conceptualisms, in collaboration with appropriation poet Robert Fitterman. Her nonfiction book, The Guilt Project: Rape and Morality will be published in 2010. Place is a regular contributor to X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly; other work has appeared in other publications, including Western Humanities Review, Northwest Review, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Bookforum. Her text collaboration with Parisian artist performer Lamya Regragui will debut at Cent Quatre in Paris/Los Angeles in 2009, and she is with Los Angeles conceptual artist Stephanie Taylor on the film "Murderous Square Dance at the Spiral Jetty."
www.lesfigues.com
Vanessa Place is a writer and lawyer, and co-director of Les Figues Press. She is the author of Dies: A Sentence, a 50,000-word, one-sentence novella; the post-conceptual novel La Medusa, and Notes on Conceptualisms, in collaboration with appropriation poet Robert Fitterman. Her nonfiction book, The Guilt Project: Rape and Morality will be published in 2010. Place is a regular contributor to X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly; other work has appeared in other publications, including Western Humanities Review, Northwest Review, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Bookforum. Her text collaboration with Parisian artist performer Lamya Regragui will debut at Cent Quatre in Paris/Los Angeles in 2009, and she is with Los Angeles conceptual artist Stephanie Taylor on the film "Murderous Square Dance at the Spiral Jetty."
www.lesfigues.com
Credits
ALOUD audio is presented by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and made possible through support provided by The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, the Righteous Persons Foundation, City National Bank, K&L Gates, KPMG, Sue and David Rosenblum, Wallis Foundation, Donna and Martin J. Wolff and The Boudjakdji Foundation. Additional support provided by The Council of the Library Foundation, Library Foundation members, and the Los Angeles Public Library. Media support provided by KPPC 83.9 FM and KUSC 91.5 FM. ALOUD theme composed by Larry Karush.