Paul Mandelbaum teaches the literature of Los Angeles at Emerson College’s L.A. Center. His books include the novels Garrett in Wedlock and Adriane on the Edge and the anthology 12 Short Stories and Their Making.
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Paperback LA: A Casual Anthology
What’s a “casual” anthology? In contrast to its canonical or thematic cousins, this three-volume creation is likened by editor Susan ...
The Revolution Will Not Be Simplified
A great many rules were made in Communist Romania not to be followed so much as to create opportunities for failure and prosecution and to achieve a state of social paralysis, the populace rendered captive to its own nervous breakdown....
Les Plesko Remembered
We talked about books and ideas, and odd moments of the day, but our psychological wounds weren’t topics of conversation; they were the furnace of our work....
Town and Country: The Double Vision of Bogdan Suceavă
Even the many flourishes of violence that pepper Bogdan Suceavă's short novel are cast in a gauzy, mystical light....
Good Company: Conversations With Norman Manea
Norman Manea, interviewer and interviewee....
Adventures in Limbo: On Jim Gavin's "Middle Men"
WITHIN THE UNIVERSE of short story writers living in Los Angeles, a legend arose a couple years ago about a youngish ...
Haunted in Bucharest: fathoming my mother’s homeland by talking to its writers
The author looks through Romania's literary history for a better understanding of the country’s story – as well as his own family's....
VIDEO: The Question of Nonfiction
Six writers talk about truthiness in nonfiction....
Whose Hollywood Is It Anyway?
The most satisfying literary conflicts allow all antagonists to be right, each in his own way....
