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I am the wound that does not heal, the small solar stone: strike me, and the world will go up in flames. Had I not stolen that book, I most…

Jocelyn Ho Jocelyn Ho met me at a coffee shop in the Pico-Fairfax neighborhood of Los Angeles. She ordered herself a cookie and a tea, then sat down across from…

Selected by Dan Ubick   Continuing Entropy’s Column of Iconic Lists from American Cities, this edition is 25 Iconic Los Angeles Records as Selected by Dan Ubick.   Editor’s Note:…

This summer marks the 15th anniversary of Napoleon Dynamite, a film so unique and divisive that computer scientists now use the term, “Napoleon Dynamite problem” to describe the difficulty of predicting an eccentric…

Theatre always felt a little hokey to me. Part of this is due to my own artistic bias; for most of my life I played the viola and moved within…

Fujiko Nakaya, Fog x FLO, Jamaica Pond, 2018 (courtesy of The Emerald Necklace Conservancy; photo by Melissa Ostrow) There is a game all children play. You lie on your back…

There was nothing to do but climb. The turquoise sky was immeasurable above the yuyuga tree, slim branches swaying and bending with heavy fruit. At ten years old, waking life…

“Denise Sullivan was born in San Francisco. She’s been chronicling the literary, musical and political history of her hometown for over three decades. In 2017, she edited the anthology, Your Golden Sun Still…

Image Credit: Kiernan Lofland     . . . to become white in the South is to absorb some large part of its particular iteration of the U.S. racial hierarchy.…

 I had no alternative; I was trapped by language. – Amitav Ghosh, In An Antique Land   In early 2009, carrying nine school semesters of French instruction, I landed in…

  by Paul Nelson [Editor’s Note: Last week I wrote a list of over 200 books about Los Angeles. This week we turn to Seattle and the guest columnist is…

Last year at #AWP18, in lieu of being able to secure an event space for the CCM/Entropy AWP reading, I brainstormed an idea to still have, in some small way,…

[Author’s Note: In the coming weeks I will be sharing other lists composed by not only me but voices I know from the Bay Area, Chicago, Seattle, New York City…

Part of being an artist is the struggle. The struggle to create, the struggle to find inspiration, the struggle to be. Perhaps that’s why not many of us make it…