{"id":1045,"date":"2009-11-25T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/11\/the-misread-city-goes-to-mexico.html"},"modified":"2009-11-25T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T22:27:00","slug":"the-misread-city-goes-to-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/11\/the-misread-city-goes-to-mexico.html","title":{"rendered":"The Misread City Goes to Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/Sw2y5tFl-WI\/AAAAAAAAAiY\/T7yKcsn035w\/s1600\/guadalajara.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/Sw2y5tFl-WI\/AAAAAAAAAiY\/T7yKcsn035w\/s320\/guadalajara.png\"><\/a><br \/>NEXT week I will visit Mexico for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fil.com.mx\/ingles\/i_info\/i_info_int.asp\">Guadalajara International Book Fair<\/a> &#8212; the biggest event of its kind in the Americas, second in size only to Frankfurt, and this year dedicated to the writing of Los Angeles. I was invited to moderate two panels partly because I co-edited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Misread-City-New-Literary-Angeles\/dp\/1888996692\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1259189082&#038;sr=1-1\">a book<\/a> on literary LA, and am in the process of renaming this blog for the book: The Misread City. (You can now get to the blog with themisreadcity.com.)<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In his Slate <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2085041\/\">review<\/a> of my book, critic Adam Kirsch suggested that the title could make a good literary quarterly on the city and its culture, and I&#8217;ve come to think of this blog as the 21st century equivalent. (Even if a few posts on evil Eastern and British subjects sometimes creep in &#8212; LA, of course, welcomes all kinds.)<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Anyway I will be running a panel called &#8220;The Short Story: LA in a Shot Glass,&#8221; with writers Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, Ana Menendex and Mary Otis, on Tues. Dec. 1 at 630 pm. And a second panel, &#8220;They&#8217;re From Where? LA Bred Writers Who Live Everywhere But,&#8221; with Jane Smiley, Dagoberto Gilb and Paul Beatty, on Dec. 2 at 530 pm. (Please note that I did not name these panels.)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Hope to see some of you there. I will be enjoying the tequila, mariachi, Orozco murals and what I hear is a mellow pace of life there, and trying to catch as many writers and panels as I can myself.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.latimes.com\/articles\/la-tr-firsttime12nov12\">HERE<\/a> is a piece I wrote on my visit to Mexico City and the colonial silver city Guanajuato.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And wishing everyone a great Thanksgiving, with or without cactus salsa.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEXT week I will visit Mexico for the Guadalajara International Book Fair &#8212; the biggest event of its kind in the Americas, second in size only to Frankfurt, and this year dedicated to the writing of Los Angeles. 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