Featured Writing
A Walking Tour of V.S. Naipaul’s Miguel Street
Published in the Los Angeles Review of Books
The fact that Naipaul’s characters were seemingly pulled from Luis Street and delivered whole to the page became particularly interesting to me during my first trip to Trinidad in 2007 when I learned that I was staying in a house featured in the novel.
Books & Literary Journals
L.A. Exile; A Guide to Los Angeles Writing, 1932-1998
An anthology I co-edited about Los Angeles from the perspective of writers and poets born elsewhere. Published by Marsilio Publishers.
From the introduction: “According to Samuel Butler, gazing at larger mammals like elephants or hippopotami may offer a cure for emotional disturbances. Though maybe not quite the organic experience, the Los Angeles Basin has proven to be over much of this century the source of a similar, unlikely comfort for the many writers who found themselves here — with their origins, psychic, cultural and otherwise — entirely elsewhere.”
Eudice Shapiro: A Life in Music, 50 Years of Teaching at USC
A commemorative book I wrote about beloved violinist and pedagogue Eudice Shapiro, the first female concertmaster of a Hollywood orchestra. Published by the USC Thornton School of Music.
Rhizome; A Language You Can Think In
A literary journal I co-edited that featured the work of emerging writers as well as Amiri Baraka, Mohammed Dib, Barbara Guest, Adriano Spatola, and others.