Posts Tagged “skylight”
Who plans these readings?
by Morgan on April 16, 2011
Last night I went to Skylight to hear Justin Taylor and Blake Butler read from their new books. It was entertaining to see these two guys together. Taylor is a full bore nerd: grungy Vans, wrinkled short-sleeved button-down, straight-leg Levi’s, dorky (…)
Jonathan Evison @ Skylight
by Morgan on February 26, 2011
Last night, Jonathan Evison read from his new novel West of Here at Skylight. I went on a whim, and I’m glad I did. Evison is one of the funniest, most amiable and disarming writers I’ve ever met. (He also (…)
Rare Bird Lit on a Friday morning
by Morgan on February 19, 2011
I dropped in on Tyson Cornell of Rare Bird Lit at his dope Columboesque office downtown yesterday. I wanted to chat with him because Tyson is a literary gangster in Los Angeles, seriously one of maybe four people I know who’s (…)
Swamplandia!
by Morgan on February 1, 2011
Hush (subtle drumroll, please). It’s here. And it’s beautiful. I’ve been waiting for this day since ‘Ava Wrestles the Alligator‘ was published in the Summer, 2006 issue of All-Story. I read it at least ten times when I got it (…)
Skylight looks like Borders
by Morgan on January 26, 2011
Holy shit. If there was a nuclear apocalypse, and everyone that survived was trapped underground for two years, and then the air was neutralized and everyone resurfaced and proceeded to slowly, raggedly repopulate the city of Los Angeles, and the (…)
Emily Pullen, Skylight Books
by Morgan on January 11, 2011
One of my favorite things about Three Guys One Book is their ongoing Why We Love What We Do series. If you don’t know it, you should. This time they feature Emily Pullen, of Skylight Books in Los Feliz. I (…)
December reading
by Morgan on December 5, 2010
Recommended by Jinny at Book Soup: How to Read The Air, Dinaw Mengestu. Purchased at Book Soup. Because I’m making a conscious effort to read LA writers (and because, after reading the finalists for the National Book Award in Fiction (…)