In April, Los Angeles Collegian – the student newspaper of Los Angeles City College – interviewed me about the UCLA / Medical Humanities project for their Facebook / YouTube newscast called Collegian Wired – East Hollywood News. I participated in the development of this new major at UCLA in October 2018-March 2019 as an AndrewContinue reading “Interview in LA Collegian Wired”
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Letter to the Editor of The Jewish Journal Published
On return from AWP, I found that my letter to The Jewish Journal (LA) got published in my absence. I’d sent it in response to a prior feature article about why the US should continue to support Israel. I suppose JJ timed it with the Israeli elections, as they put it at the very topContinue reading “Letter to the Editor of The Jewish Journal Published”
AWP19 Book Fair: Enormous and Exhilarating
It took me almost 2 days to get through the AWP 2019 bookfair. It is enormous, but then everything about this conference is enormous: 15,000 attendees ant-crawling through the convention center, 30 concurrent talk tracks, the enormous lines, and the ensuing networking and camaraderie. Among my bookfair finds is a collection of Tel Aviv noir;Continue reading “AWP19 Book Fair: Enormous and Exhilarating”
Oregon-Bound: Going to AWP 2019
Excited about learning about presses, agents, and writing programs at Association of Writers & Writing Programs‘ AWP 2019 conference. The line-up of published authors is amazing! https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/
Poets & Writers’ Los Angeles Literary Fall Roundtable
Glad to have participated in the November 2018 Poets & Writers’ Los Angeles Literary Roundtable, organized by the Poets & Writers magazine. What a great gathering! I enjoyed the Poetry.LA presentation and their noir poetry series with Suzanne Lummis, and talked about The Citadel unveiling. Two roundtable participants, it turns out, have published in TheContinue reading “Poets & Writers’ Los Angeles Literary Fall Roundtable”