CLASH Books will be at the LA Times Festival of Books
April 22-23
Check out our offsite reading!
PERMANENT RECORDS
In the Courtyard
1906 Cypress Ave,
Los Angeles
4.22
6 pm
THE LINEUP
Francesca Lia Block, M.F.A., http://www.francescaliablock.com/, is the best-selling, award-winning author of more than twenty-five widely-translated books of fiction, non-fiction, short stories and poetry. Currently she teaches courses in creative writing at UCLA Extension, Antioch University, litreactor and privately. Her latest novel House of Heartsis forthcoming from Rare Bird Books and her Dangerous Angels series is being adapted for Peacock by Sera Gamble.
KEVIN BIGLEY is an actor/writer from Yuba-Sutter County. He’s most recently appeared in Upload, Sirens, Bojack Horseman, Parked, Undone, and Upload. He’s had fiction published in Maudlin House, X-Ray, Reedsy, and Beautiful Losers. He is the author of COMAVILLE (CLASH Books). He lives in Los Angeles.
TEA HACIC-VLAHOVIC is a Croatian-American writer based in LA. She’s the author of LIFE OF THE PARTY (soon to be a TV show) and a CIGARETTE LIT BACKWARDS.
MARSTON HEFNER continues the legacy Hugh Hefner left him, exploring sexual taboos, finding radical self-love in humanity’s darkest unconscious desires. He is the editor and founder of Young Magazine, a professional backgammon player, and has published work in New York Tyrant. Born and raised in Los Angeles, he prefers staying in, playing videogames, and reading over the nightlife and the glamor.
MADELEINE CASH is the editor of Forever Magazine. Her collection of short stories THEY ATE THE CHILDREN FIRST is forthcoming on CLASH. :)
ADRIAN ERNESTO CEPEDA is the author of Flashes & Verses… Becoming Attractions from Unsolicited Press, Between the Spine from Picture Show Press, Speaking con su Sombra with Alegría Publishing and La Belle Ajar & We Are the Ones Possessed from CLASH Books . Adrian lives with his wife in Los Angeles with their adorably spoiled cat Woody Gold.
ALLIE ROWBOTTOM is the author of the New York Times Editor's Choice memoir Jell-O Girls. Her debut novel, Aesthetica, is forthcoming from Soho Press in 2022.
LINDSAY LERMAN’s first book I'm From Nowhere was published in 2019. Her essays, short stories, and poetry have been published in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Entropy, Hobart, Southwest Review, and elsewhere. She is currently adapting her short story Real Love—which first appeared in NY Tyrant Magazine—for the screen. She is represented by Abby Walters at CAA.
EUGENIO VOLPE is the author of the forthcoming novel "I, Caravaggio" (Clash Books 2023). His essay 'Jesus Kicks His Oedipus Complex' was listed as notable in Best American Essays 2021. His stories have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Salamander, New York Tyrant, VICE, Post Road, The Nervous Breakdown, BULL, and elsewhere. He is a former winner of the PEN Discovery Award for Fiction. He teaches rhetoric at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
AUTUMN CHRISTIAN is a fiction writer from Texas. She is the author of several books including "Girl Like a Bomb," and "The Crooked God Machine."
M. STEVEN S. lives in Los Angeles with his wife and their two dogs and three cats. His debut novel ILL BEHAVIOR was published last year. He's in the middle of writing his sophomore effort.
GREG MANIA is a writer, comedian, and award-winning screenwriter based in New York City. His words have been published in TheNewYorker, VanityFair, HuffPost, OprahDaily, PAPER, among other international online and print platforms. His debut memoir, Born to Be Public, is out now from CLASH Books.
