Slake 2: Crossing Over

An event to celebrate the release of the much-anticipated second issue of this Los Angeles literary journal. Slake's first issue was a huge hit here, making our store's bestseller list for months in a row. Whether you're a devotee of the journal already or this is your first exposure to Slake, stop by and see for yourself what people are getting so excited about! Elizabeth Banicki, Ben Ehrenreich, Yxta Maya Murray, Sam Slovick, Justin Warfield, and Slake publisher Joe Donnelly will be reading from their selected pieces.

Elizabeth Banicki spent her teens and early twenties riding at tracks around the country. During her college years, she discovered a love for literature and writing and eventually left the itinerant life of the track for the itinerant life of a freelance writer.

Ben Ehrenreich is the author of the novel The Suitors. His second novel, Ether, will be published by City Lights Books in 2011. His articles have appeared in Harpers, the London Review of Books, L.A. Weekly, and many other publications. He lives in Los Angeles.

Yxta Maya Murray was born in Long Beach in 1968. She teaches law at Loyola Law School and embroiders strange self-portraits from her home base in Studio City. She’s published five novels: Locas, What It Takes to Get to Vegas, The Conquest, The Queen Jade, and The King’s Gold. Two young adult novels, Stolen Girls and Girl on Fire, are forthcoming next year.

Sam Slovick has been published in numerous magazines and newspapers. His Skid Row series for the L.A. Weekly garnered wide acclaim. Sam has been a major-label recording artist, songwriter, and has appeared in numerous television shows and films.

Justin Warfield is a music producer, frontman of She Wants Revenge, unemployed screen and television writer, sometime director, lazy blogger, husband, father, mediocre skateboarder, worse surfer, black Jew.

Joe Donnelly is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in numerous publication and anthologies. Donnelly was the deputy editor of the L.A. Weekly from 2002 to 2008. Before that, Donnelly was the arts editor of New Times Los Angeles and editor in chief of the seminal Los Angeles pop-culture magazine Bikini. Donnelly earned a master’s degree in journalism from UC Berkeley. Donnelly, who is also Slake’s publisher, started dreaming up Slake several years ago when he asked himself a simple question: why doesn’t a city as cool and interesting as Los Angeles have a publication as cool and interesting as the city?

Slake: Los Angeles, No. 2: Crossing Over (Paperback)

By Laurie Ochoa, Joe Donnelly

$18.00

ISBN-13: 9780984563517
Availability: In the Warehouse (Usually ships to store or customer in 2-7 days. Call for time-sensitive orders)
Published: Slake Media, 2/2011

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