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Hollywood is a Verb:
Los Angeles Tackles the Oxford English Dictionary

A lexicographer’s work is never done, and writer Karl Ove Knausgaard describes language as ‘a social activity.’ In this short…

My Moby Dick – Michael Tolkin

Michael Tolkin

The End of Ice:
Stories from Greenland’s Northernmost Villages

Gretel Ehrlich, Neal Conan

For 20 years, writer Gretel Ehrlich has traveled with Inuit hunters in Greenland, listening to their narratives and observing changes…

Two Writers Reflect on War and Peace

Maxine Hong Kingston, Viet Thanh Nguyen

Visionary writer Maxine Hong Kingston has been writing about war and peace since her landmark 1976 book The Woman Warrior.…

Douglas Kearney on “Radio Imagination”

Douglas Kearney

Poet and scholar Douglas Kearney shares insights about late sci-fi author Octavia Butler, making connections between her self-described “radio imagination”…

Kate Tempest on Literature and Empathy

Kate Tempest

Award-winning poet and rapper Kate Tempest’s electrifying debut novel takes us into the beating heart of London in this multi-generational…

Kate Tempest on Bringing Literature to Life

Kate Tempest

Award-winning poet and rapper Kate Tempest’s electrifying debut novel takes us into the beating heart of London in this multi-generational…

Radio Imagination:
Octavia E. Butler’s Los Angeles

Ben Caldwell, Ayana A. H. Jamieson, Douglas Kearney, Nisi Shawl, Tisa Bryant, DJ Lynnée Denise

Ten years after the passing of Los Angeles’ own Octavia E. Butler–one of America’s best science fiction writers and one…

Prayers for the Stolen

Jennifer Clement, Magdalena Edwards

Inspired by the author’s years living in Mexico and ten years of field research, this transporting, visceral novel tells the…

Sacred Activism:
Putting Spiritual Knowledge into Action

Andrew Harvey, Reverend Ed Bacon

Andrew Harvey discusses his dramatic life conversion from mysticism to mystic activism with the Rector of Pasadena’s All Saint’s Church—known…