Anna Kovatcheva was born in Bulgaria and now lives in Brooklyn. She holds an MFA in fiction from New York University. Her chapbook, The White Swallow, was selected by Aimee Bender as the winner of the Gold Line Press Chapbook Competition; her short fiction has been anthologized in...
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Feels Like Home: "A Wanderer and Homeless Waif": Los Angeles’ Central Library - Part 3
This post is the third in a series of excerpts serializing the book Feels Like Home
Nature Walk Around the Block
For many families in Los Angeles, taking a socially-distanced stroll around the neighborhood has been a major activity over the past few months, a type of recreation that feels essential for our mental and physical health.
Interview with a Zine Maker: Lexis-Olivier Ray
Lexis-Olivier Ray is a multimedia journalist, filmmaker, zine maker, and artist currently based in Los Angeles. In the past year, he has created content for KCET, L.A. Taco, Road Trippers, Leafly, Atlas Obscura, and Hyper Allergic.
Read it First: Classic Literature on Film
From the time we first learn to read, we are steered towards “the classics.” FromThe Velveteen Rabbit to War and Peace, these novels are touted as enlightening, world expanding, and, sometimes, enjoyable reads. But what, exactly, is a “classic” novel?
Interview With an Author: Carrie Vaughn
Carrie Vaughn is best known for her New York Times bestselling Kitty Norville series of novels about a werewolf named Kitty who hosts a talk radio show for the supernaturally disadvantaged.
Feels Like Home: "A Wanderer and Homeless Waif": Los Angeles’ Central Library - Part 2
This post is the second in a series of excerpts serializing the book Feels Like Home
Adults Only: Biographies of Children’s Authors
It is a good thing that the lives of children’s authors are not always reflected in the books they wrote. Some of the most enduring and well-loved of these books were written by people whose lives were not sugar and spice.
Interview with a Zine Maker: Eunsoo Jeong
Eunsoo Jeong is an artist, color designer, illustrator, animator living in Los Angeles. Koreangry is a comic/zine series based on her daily struggle as a Korean-American immigrant woman.
Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920-1958) was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose research was foundational to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA, for which three male colleagues at King's College London won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962.
Interview With an Author: TJ Klune
TJ Klune is a Lambda Literary Award-winning author and an ex-claims examiner for an insurance company.