Slake- Los Angeles: Still Life (A City and Its Stories) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0984563504 ISBN 13: 9780984563500

Publisher: Slake Media, 2010

Synopsis

Slake

The Los Angeles Quarterly

Volume One, issue One

Still Life:A City and Its Stories

This summer, a fresh voice takes root in Los Angeles with the debut of SLAKE, a new quarterly journal co-founded by former LA Weekly editors Joe Donnelly and Laurie Ochoa. SLAKE is devoted to the endangered art of deeply reported narrative journalism and the kind of polished essay, memoir, fiction, poetry and portrait writing that is disappearing in a world of instant takes and unfiltered opinion. SLAKE marks a return to storytelling.

Designed with an artist's eye and published in a full-color, perfect-bound format, SLAKE sets a new template for the next generation of print publications -- collectible, not disposable; destined for the bedside table instead of the recycling bin; and so seductive in its looks and content that readers will find it irresistible.

Most important are the voices of SLAKE, some of the nation's finest writers, photographers and artists who live in Southern California and bring to SLAKE their own individual visions of Los Angeles and the world beyond. Contributors to SLAKE's debut issue include Luke Davies, Mark Z. Danielewski, Jonathan Gold, Geoff Nicholson, Jerry Stahl, Sandow Birk, Michelle Huneven, John Albert, John Powers, Judith Lewis, Iris Berry, Steven Kotler, Daniel Hernandez, C.R. Stecyk, Pleasant Gehman, Arty Nelson and many more.

About this title

About the Author:

Award-winning journalist and former deputy editor of LA Weekly. Joe Donnelly is an award-winning journalist who has worked for the New York Daily News, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and numerous other national and international publications. His work has appeared in several anthologies and literary publications. Donnelly was the deputy editor of the LA Weekly from 2002- 2008. Before that, Donnelly was the arts editor of New Times Los Angeles and the editor in chief of the seminal Los Angeles pop-culture magazine, Bikini. He eared his masters in journalism from UC Berkeley.

About this edition

• Publisher: Slake Media
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0984563504
• ISBN 13: 9780984563500
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Donnelly Joe, Ochoa Laurie