Not so long ago, when I used to play the piano, a well-respected Record Producer approached me at the Music Festival in New England to say that they had heard of my name, and some good things about my piano playing, and ...
The Masterclass by William Pei Shih
Fiction, LAR Online, Uncategorized
3/12/2012 6:30 a.m.
Black sky. One streetlamp, bright as the moon. It might as well be midnight. Fauns could frolic among the graves.
6:37 a.m.
Dawn (weakly). Who the hell gets up this early? What are ...
Smile by Cathleen Calbert
LAR Online, Nonfiction, Uncategorized
State tests found more than 65,000 children in the city
with dangerously high blood-lead levels from 1993 to 2013.
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Even Ovid knew it was love’s antidote—
the arrow meant for ...
Half-Lives by Carol Quinn
LAR Online, Poetry, Uncategorized
Some wise creature
once said that a child doubles her father’s vision,
so the snakeskin will be accounted for, filmy and useless,
and the sky will glow “like a sea built of fire,”
and the birds will never ...
Call It a Day by David Roderick
LAR Online, Poetry, Uncategorized
Reviewed by Sarah Appleton
Good Bones
Poems by Maggie Smith
Tupelo Press, October 1, 2017
$16.95; 112 pp.
ISBN: 978-1946482082
“Let me love the world the way I love,” Maggie Smith says in “Rain, ...
Review: Good Bones by Maggie Smith
Book Reviews, LAR Online, Uncategorized
Love Letter to a Stranger, with Rain
Years ago, I read of an accident
in a country far from our own. The medics
arrived late, and as the ambulance
pulled from the curb, the crowd sang,
together, strangers making ...
Three Poems by Helena Mesa
LAR Online, Poetry, Uncategorized
There is a publishing company in France deepening readers’ connections to their favorite authors with what they’ve deemed an impossible project: breathing life back into the dying art of the handwritten.
Inspired ...
Saint Père Books
LAR Online, Uncategorized
The Los Angeles Review's Riley Mang interviews Agatha French, a staff writer in Books at the Los Angeles Times. French has worked as an editor for a number of literary journals and magazines, including the Los Angeles ...
Interview with Agatha French
Interviews, LAR Online, Uncategorized
