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Nikki Darling

Nikki Darling’s criticism appears regularly in the Los Angeles Times and LA Weekly. She has freelanced for Tomorrow Magazine, The Art Book Review, and Flaunt, among others. Her essay “Appropriate for Destruction” was included in Best Music Writing 2010.

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Somewhere, Johnson

Dana Johnson, author of the beautifully written Elsewhere, California, wants so much for you to know her novel is about place, that she puts one of the nation’s most famous states in its title. This is also a novel about color: the color of skin, water, sky, and Dodgers’ hats, the color of grass and […]

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