The world has roughly over 7,000 languages, with over 200 of those languages spoken in Los Angeles. As Angelenos, we live in one of the most interesting linguistic communities in the world. How does language acquisition happen? Learn more on the LAPL blog: https://t.co/MeddHDosjG
I have a book announcement! Over the last twenty years, I've taught novel writing to thousands of people of all ages, helping them finish and publish books. Now Penguin is publishing my guide so I can help even more people. For classes: https://t.co/0fyGid4iIS. #WritingCommunity
‘You can believe in the comfort that somebody who has gone still exists in your life’
❓How do you keep the memory of loved ones alive after they've died?
Author @DoughtyLouise shared how writing her book Platform 7 helped her hold onto her mother’s memory after her death ⬇️
Hot off the press! The book to read. 30 years of writing on art by Helen Molesworth, former chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. A brilliantly independent mind. #artcritic#PhaidonPress
Notice anything new? That's right: the new Los Angeles Review of Books website is up!!! A special thanks to Will Kent-Daggett, Ella Gold, and Jacob Bilich, as well as to all of you for reading and writing with us all these years. Enjoy! https://t.co/yUOf2s8TcS
Call it Peak Gift Book: 2023 has witnessed a major nonfiction groundswell of memoirs, biographies and cultural histories that are both substantial and a lot of fun. Here are the 18 best nonfiction books for fans of Madonna, memoirs or cultural histories: https://t.co/5VgV4PSfyt
Argentinian artist Marta Minujín's monumental replica of the Greek Parthenon created with 100,000 copies of banned books, to symbolizes the resistance to political repression and in support of free speech #WomensArt
Some wonderful revision tips from @LisaYee1 today at the @WriteGirlLA fiction workshop:
1. Read your work aloud to another person. 2. Change the margins & font before revising. 3. Highlight every part you love and then rewrite until every line is highlighted.
I got a job and moved to New York from England in 1991. I loved Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities and everyone I met seemed like a character from its pages. RIP. https://t.co/9KwFnjRudT