Chris Daley
Chris Daley has written about books, cults, and heartbreak in the Los Angeles Times, Air/Light, Essay Daily, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Collagist, Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction, and elsewhere. She publishes the Submission Sunday newsletter on Substack and designs author websites at chrisdaley.com.
19th-Century Nightmare
Stephen Graham Jones’s The Buffalo Hunter Hunter skillfully blends literary, historical, and genre influences.
Bright Lights, Big City
In Dorothy Parker in Hollywood, Gail Crowther reimagines a large life.
Burning Down the House
In The Last Fire Season, Manjula Martin mixes memoir with a broader climate advocacy.
For Beauty’s Sake
Mona Awad’s novel Rouge gets under the skin.
Wild Wild Life
With Open Throat, Henry Hoke has written the great mountain lion novel of Los Angeles.
For Art’s Sake
Scott O’Connor discusses his novel Zero Zone and the literature of “our beautiful, brutal state.”
The Pleasure-Seekers
Myron Brinig’s The Flutter of an Eyelid is the great lost classic of Los Angeles literature.