Denise Hamilton

Editor, Speculative Los Angeles Anthology (Feb 2021) Crime novelist, Edgar finalist, flaneusse, sniftresse, editor (Los Angeles Noir anthologies)

[Denise Hamilton @DeniseHamilton_]

Viva Sicily! My journo friend @AmyKazmin reports from booming Palermo

[Amy Kazmin @AmyKazmin]

While other urban centers wrestle with over-tourism + related housing shortages, #Palermo, Sicily's faded but compelling capital, as emerged as one of Italy's vibrant cities, a dramatic turnabout. #Italia https://t.co/TIfw5q2lHy via @ft

[Denise Hamilton @DeniseHamilton_]

@sqiouyilu @clarkesworld That is terrific news, @sqiouyilu and so well-deserved. It was a perfect story and @AkashicBooks and I were thrilled to have it for Speculative LA & @clarkesworld was wise to include in their BEST SF OF THE YEAR.

[Denise Hamilton @DeniseHamilton_]

Thank you@tkspodcast & yes the @akashic city noir series is amazing and it keeps growing so you'll never run out of cities to visit

[Not the real Roger Murdock @tkspodcast]

@DeniseHamilton_ A Johnny-come-lately to the Akashic noir anthologies. First Austin, then Seattle, now Los Angeles, where your classics edition (Noir 2) has me losing my damn fool mind it's #SoGood. A third left to go, the Surf is ridiculous. Thanks for so many good stories 🥰

[Joanna DeVoe @JoannaDeVoe]

@AltaJournal @DeniseHamilton_ If everyone in Los Angeles who cared about #P22 also cared about #LaTunaPuma, maybe we could save the destruction of his territory in the Verdugo mountains, which has been marked to be razed for a fancy, gated development: https://t.co/4AbpjtOvlm @latimes @LAist @LATACO @laweekly

[Denise Hamilton @DeniseHamilton_]

Watched a rat scamper across 5 lanes of traffic of the Ventura Freeway while stuck in traffic near Forest Lawn. Rat was fine. The rats are always fine.

[Alta Journal @AltaJournal]

Weekend Read: @DeniseHamilton_ offers a first person imagining of the life of P-22, the most famous mountain lion in Los Angeles. https://t.co/gGkxpPyuFg

[Alta Journal @AltaJournal]

“P-22’s Life in L.A.” by @DeniseHamilton_ is an autobiography of the famous mountain lion and his time in the Santa Monica Mountains.

It ends with his tragic death last December.
https://t.co/HY9rWBbP36

[Denise Hamilton @DeniseHamilton_]

L.A. is deep into the two weeks each year after heavy rain when the land blooms like a semi-tropical jungle and secret waterfalls and creeks appear like magic and serenade the city like troubadours who will soon move on

[Denise Hamilton @DeniseHamilton_]

This memoir is incredible!!!

[The Baffler @thebafflermag]

“Out of the Night” made its author famous when it first appeared in 1941. So what ever happened to Jan Valtin? Colin Asher explains why the book disappeared from our collective memory. https://t.co/EIxD6bfSAj

[Denise Hamilton @DeniseHamilton_]

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[Santa Monica Mtns @SantaMonicaMtns]

1) We are saddened to share mountain lion P-81 was likely killed by vehicle strike Sunday, Jan. 22.😢
@CaliforniaDFW officials collected P-81’s body on the Pacific Coast Highway near Las Posas Road in the western Santa Monica Mountains. A necropsy will be performed to confirm

[Santa Monica Mtns @SantaMonicaMtns]

5)Vehicle strikes are the leading cause of death for mountain lions in our study area. Since March 2022, nine mountain lions have died by vehicle strikes – six were radio-collared. P-81 is the 34th mountain lion, and the 13th radio-collared, to die from road mortality since 2002

[Denise Hamilton @DeniseHamilton_]

Mark your calendars

[Ken Layne @KenLayne]

No more Desert Oracle live shows BUT I'm doing this reading/bookstore party (with wine) for @AltaJournal at @skylightbooks, Monday, Feb. 27, 7 p.m. Free but you gotta RSVP like a civilized person. https://t.co/zRH5W4wpwu

[Michael Walker @mwwwalker]

The residents of Laurel Canyon are currently filling the canyon with David Crosby songs played at top volume in a tribute to the fallen musician—Crosby, Stills & Nash sang together for the first time at the L. Canyon home of Mama Cass Elliot.

[Skyboat Audiobooks @SkyboatMedia]

SPECULATIVE LOS ANGELES #audiobook is on sale from @ChirpBooks for $2.99! This “wildly imaginative and emotionally grounded”anthology edited by @DeniseHamilton_ features 14 original LA-based stories read by @StefansEcho, @GiftoGab & more
https://t.co/U85BP0NinV
@BlackstoneAudio

[John McCormack @LAevolving]

In 1861, it rained in Los Angeles for 28 straight days due to an atmospheric river like the one hitting SoCal now

The Santa Ana, San Gabriel & Los Angeles rivers merged, creating one large river mouth that stretched from Long Beach to Huntington Beach

https://t.co/OTN6Fpu9uf

[Paul Holdengraber @holdengraber]

LITTLE GIDDING
(Last of the “Four Quartets”)

“Last season's fruit is eaten
and the fullfed beast shall kick the empty pail.
For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
~ T. S. Eliot

https://t.co/pkEQafKejz

[Denise Hamilton @DeniseHamilton_]

Running the trails of Griffith Park this afternoon and seeing P-22 in each canyon, clump of brush, hillside. His memory will haunt me and every Angeleno who keeps a wild space in their heart

[Denise Hamilton @DeniseHamilton_]

@anaperiodista Hello @anaperiodista trying to reach you for a P-22 story, thank you!

[Denise Hamilton @DeniseHamilton_]

As Angelenos mourn our beloved P-22 mountain lion, I'm reminded of another apex predator I wrote about for @AltaJournal who journeyed 1,500 miles from Oregon into SoCal only to be killed by a truck, the grey wolf OR-93. We need wildlife corridors! https://t.co/s4pBICac5c