Editor

I am the founder, publisher, and for ten years was editor-in-chief and executive director of the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), a nonprofit organization founded in 2011 and dedicated to promoting and disseminating rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every aspect of literature, culture, and the arts.  The LARB main website at its busiest published three to five longform reviews, essays, and interviews every day, 365 days a year, as well as more pieces in our journal, on our blog (BLARB), and dozens in our Channels program, a curated collection of independently edited websites. I also founded the LARB Quarterly Journal, the LARB Radio Hour, the LARB Publishing Workshop, and LARB Books. We produced a series of public events and private fundraising events year-round. (The blog has now been discontinued, and LARB Books has suspended releasing new titles). The editor-in-chief is now Medaya Ocher and the executive director is Irene Yoon.

I have also edited many articles for other publications, guest edited issues of academic journals, and with Susannah Ashton, then my graduate student, I edited a book, These ‘Colored’ United States: African American Essays from the 1920s.