Archive for January, 2013
How to Meet Your Audience
by Adam Leipzig
When I worked in theatre, the best part of the day arrived about 7 pm, as the audience started to mill about the lobby. You’d go downstairs and see the folks you were working for. Then at 8 o’clock, you could sit in the theatre, high up and in the back, and watch them watch the play. You’d learn something every time, and never feel out of tou More...
Reckonings
by Lee Rossi
Above and Below
Above, not the wan idolatry of blue,
but nothing's generous playroom,
not a lung filled with misgiving,
but a tourniquet for the bleeding planet.
Below, gray hills squeeze olive
and gold from stone, ore into oro.
Water whispers its gentle death sentence
to lovers of hierarchy. Stand for an instant
and feel the pull of eve More...
Grand Opportunity
by Chiwan Choi
A big and exciting opportunity has landed on our laps. We will be setting up and operating an all day pop-up bookshop at Grand Park in downtown LA during their planned books and literacy festival. There is great potential here, not only for the event itself, but for us as a press and for LA Writ Large. There are also a couple of big challenges.
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Social Entrepreneur Gets Doc Treatment
Haiti has often been plagued by the cruelties of politics, commerce, and nature, but it has also produced some rare individuals, disinterested in self-promotion or personal gain, who have – against incredible odds – found ways to better the lives of those in need. Father Joseph Philippe is one such man, or more accurately, he is five or six soc More...
Cloud Talk
Copyright © 2013 by Carol Green. All rights reserved.
Carol Green, the creator of Cultural Weekly's original comic series, Life After Birth, is a coach, writer, illustrator, veteran film publicist and wry observer living in Los Angeles.
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SLASH-dance
by Amelia Martin
In December, as the Sun- and Slam- Dance acceptance announcements were going out, I was in the majority, along with 8,000 other filmmakers all over the world, whose submissions were not accepted to either festival. I was just beginning lick my wounds and start looking forward to the remaining years festivals when... the text, email and Facebook mes More...
All-MRI Music Video: Sivu’s ‘Better Man Than He’
Ever wonder what goes on inside a musician's head? Newcomer musical artist Sivu (born in Cambridge, England with the given name James Page) has a new twist with this music video: director Adam Powell created it all out of MRI imagery. More...To the Moon, Mona!
To test new communication technologies, NASA sent an image of the Mona Lisa to the moon and back. More...Dror Moreh, ‘Gatekeepers’ Director
by Sophia Stein
Dror Moreh’s Academy Award-nominated documentary, The Gatekeepers, features interviews with all living former heads of the Shin Bet, the Israeli secret service (equivalent to our FBI) for an unprecedented and revelatory accounting of security operations since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza strip. With remarkable candor, Avr More...
Three New Steps
by Chiwan Choi
I want to say it’s been lazy here at Writ Large Press HQ (aka Our Messy Ass Apartment) since the spectacular release of Eulogy to an Unknown Tree and the Beyond Baroque incident on 1/12, but we had to hop right on to our next projects.
One is our next book. The other is the first LA Writ Large event.
ANTIDOTE by José Luis Peixoto
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