L.A. Man: Profiles from a Big City and a Small World
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016
We Dropped a Bomb on You: The Best of Slake I-IVFetched Up in Amber
By JOE DONNELLY This piece originally appeared in the The Surfer’s Journal. PDF available here. M ike Purpus is waiting on the second step of the staircase that leads to his second-story apartment in South Redondo Beach. Purpus is used to waiting. He hasn’t had a driver’s license since he was a kid, so […]
The Confirmation of Danny Kwock
By JOE DONNELLY This piece originally appeared in the The Surfer’s Journal. PDF available here. Danny Kwock’s hair is long. Like, hippie long. This might surprise those who’ve leafed through the tome The Eighties at Echo Beach, or are old enough to have been there and remember when Kwock, Preston Murray, Jeff Parker, Peter […]
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L.A. Man: Profiles from a Big City and a Small World (Rare Bird Books | April 17, 2018) collects the best and boldest of Donnelly’s profiles—illuminating a time and place in Los Angeles worth preserving. Donnelly emerges as a sort of West Coast George Plimpton, taking his subjects by the horns—at the pool table, in […]
Jill Leovy and The Safety Crisis
This story originally appeared in the LA Weekly. Jill Leovy picks at the ruins of a piece of carrot cake and describes the scene she just witnessed in Los Feliz, a riot of skinny, long-haired boys in skinny jeans and skinny, pointy shoes, strutting down Vermont Avenue like a flock of peacocks. “It struck me […]
Venice: How a forgotten corner of ‘70s LA gave birth to modern skateboarding
From the collection Weird Scenes Inside The Goldmine: Los Angeles in the 19070s,” Rarebird Lit, David Kukoff editor. Except originally appeared in Huck Magazine, November 2016 Photography © Rick McCloskey AS MAJOR EVENTS GO, this one may not rank up there with Alaskan statehood, the advent of NASA, or even that April fifteenth day when […]
Scott Mitchell: The Pull of Space and Light
Published by Treats! Magazine Image © Steve Shaw IF YOU’VE EVER DRIVEN up the Pacific Coast Highway looking for a piece of sandy respite away from the maddening crowds, or maybe you’re lucky and this stretch is your way home, you’ve probably noticed Nobu restaurant, a sleek slice of contemporary modernism on the beach side […]
