Featured Writing
Cathedral Rock, Valparaiso Fiction Review
”While he sits at a picnic table at a riverside campsite, Noll tells his younger brother about the day he swam the town rapids alone.”
A Walking Tour of V.S. Naipaul’s Miguel Street, Los Angeles Review of Books
”Today, Luis Street has no outward signs of having inspired Naipaul's novel Miguel Street. This is, I would guess, how Naipaul would want it.”
A Spectacular Night at the 2024 Grammy Awards, USC News
”On music’s biggest night, a nomination can often be as important as a win, particularly for young musicians, and both are highlighted here.”
Substack
In June 2024, Calbi moved to Spain. A year later, he began writing about his experience. Topics that interest him include regional foods, the legacy of fascism, the nerd spiral of literary craft he's studying while working on a novel, the differences between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and between oceans and seas.
The page is here: evancalbi.substack.com
Books & Literary Journals
L.A. Exile; A Guide to Los Angeles Writing, 1932-1998
Calbi is the co-editor of an anthology about Los Angeles from the perspective of writers and poets born elsewhere. From the book cover: “There are cities writers have sought as inspiration; Paris in the ‘20s, or New York or San Francisco in the ‘40s and ‘50s. Then there is Los Angeles, a place poets and writers have avoided or at least never expected to end up in. Once arrived, many found themselves remarkably productive, intrigued with the city and a life that often struggles to be heroically elsewhere. L.A. Exile is a guide to the literature, the writers and the physical spaces that have made for what composer Igor Stravinsky called “splendid isolation.”
Eudice Shapiro, A Life in Music
He is the author of a commemorative book about celebrated violinist Eudice Shapiro, the first female concertmaster of a Hollywood orchestra.
Rhizome; A Language You Can Think In
He co-founded a literary journal that featured the work of emerging writers as well as established names like Amiri Baraka, Barbara Guest, Adriano Spatola, and others.