2029 | issue 2.0
Table of Contents
CATEGORIES
Creative Prose
The Story of a Woman
This is the story of a woman who wants to sleep but cannot because her mind won’t stop wandering, a woman who knew that...
Lines in a Midori Notebook
12.08.16He’s in a small town where she once lived, thinking of their old friend. He’s in the grips of something horrible,...
Still Champagne
IIt was the first day of 1975, and the woman had little comfort left in her heart. She had sworn off all hope of ever...
To Those of You Who are Bold Enough to Take on the Self-Aggrandizing Title, “Writer”
Welcome to the Wild and Bewildering you are about to Embark on. This is a Path not for the faint of Heart or weak of Mind....
Essays
Spanish is Not a Foreign Language: Publishing and National Identity
In 2018, the Latinx population in the United States reached 59.9 million.[1] Given the current climate of fear and...
The Mentor
It’s early morning in Los Angeles as I walk a side street to a coffee shop to work on a revision of this essay. I’m...
Time Has Run Out
When I first read The Autobiography of Malcolm X, it stirred up feelings of indignation, confusion, and disappointment....
The Case for Rainbows
The creative landscape is changing. Some might say not nearly fast enough, but change usually occurs in waves—some high and...
Long Surnames and Pride: On Alma and How She Got Her Name
Alma Sofia Esperanza José Pura Candela thinks her name is too long. When it doesn’t fit on a single sheet of paper, she...
Seeing Minds Through Minds: Determining Whose Perception to Trust in Sense and Sensibility
The Dashwood sisters are on the verge of a crisis. They are young, single, fatherless, and fortuneless; marriage is their...
Publishing in Academia: Reflectionsfrom a ’24th Grader’
I remember my thoughts as I walked into the book exhibit at a conference in London last summer: “Can I just snuggle amongst...
UnBreakable Bonds: Literary Ecosystems in Africa
The 2019 theme for the Writivism Literary Festival in Kampala, Uganda—“UnBreakable Bonds” —began with a question: what does...
Books and Electronic Media
Today, books are increasingly available to us in formats other than the printed volume. At the same time, the communal...
Accessible Science is Key to Public Trust
For scientists, these are times both exciting and apprehensive. From designer babies to genomic medicine, artificial...
Interviews
The Digital Turn: Bob Stein on Media, Technology, and the Future of Academic Publishing
Bob Stein likes to push the limits of what’s possible. When new formats become codified, he grows bored with them. That’s...
Coffee House Press: Rethinking the Writer-Reader Relationship Off the Page
Coffee House Press no longer sees itself as a publisher but as a facilitator, connecting artists and audiences. Sometimes...
Poetry
Among These Giants
The hidden river rushes throughThe redwood forest, veiled, enfoldedIn its own echo, babbling as ifA half-remembered beckon,...
We Come from Resilience
We come from resilience.Our ancestors endured,treated as strangers in their own land.Desperation and courage brought us...
Speaking Beneath the Tree to Whom I Belong
For what are we but human? Such a waste. For what are we but human? Never satisfied, always looking, always searching for...
“A Freight of Bruised White Peaches” and “Of Heaven”
A FREIGHT OF BRUISED WHITE PEACHESI have this friend who lives on the frontage roadsbetween Portland and Sacramento,a...
Flicker
papers flurryideas hurrythe warmth of freshly pressed thoughtson eggshell leaves.a touch of the keyseuphoric releaseof...
Visual Arts
Makena Gadient Portfolio
High Priority To Do (February 2019) 2019 | 12.5×9.5 | stitched USPS tyvek envelope High Priority To Do is a currently...
Tim Youd Portfolio
Upton Sinclair’s Oil! 2014 | Typewriter ink on paper | framed: 17 x 25 inches (43.2 x 63.5 cm) | 548 pages typed on an...
Nikita Ares Portfolio
lost stars oil pastel and colored pencil on paper | 2019 | 20×24 roller coaster eyes oil pastel and colored pencil on...
Asif Hoque
Eternal Sunshine oil on canvas | 2019 | 50×60 Asif Tanvir Hoque is a 27 year old Pratt Institute graduate, living and...
Arshia Haq Portfolio
Ajnabi Milan 2019 | Performance| Sequins | Digital Print The Ascension 2018 | Performance | Ice, gold leaf, metal pulver |...
Felix Wang Portfolio
Memory of Body Expressed as Submicroscopic Particles Suspended in Air 2019 | Photographic image of video installation...
Masthead
EDITORIAL
COPYEDITING
ART DIRECTION
PRODUCTION
ADVISORS
MEDAYA OCHER, PUBLAB EDITORIAL ADVISOR
KATELYN KEATING, PUBLAB WEB ADVISOR
PUBLAB ISSUE 2.0 IS A PRODUCTION OF THE 2019 LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS PUBLISHING WORKSHOP