With support from the California Arts Council, Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) will continue to support our staff and operations during an office relocation and redevelopment of our flagship website. Since 2015, LARB has paid below market rate for an office in a complex that is now undergoing development into luxury condominiums. With the support of CAC, we can transition to a new central space in downtown Los Angeles for the public programs and publishing activities we offer to the larger California community. The move will require a substantial increase in monthly costs, and we are simultaneously undergoing a redesign of our website to improve site security and functionality. This grant will allow us to maintain our online and physical infrastructure without any interruption to our programming.
LARB publishes new reviews, essays, and interviews online every day, as well as a print journal, the LARB Quarterly Journal, featuring original fiction, poetry, essays, and art, and the LARB Radio Hour, a weekly show featuring author interviews and discussions about literature. Our educational and public arts programs include the LARB Publishing Workshop, an immersive, collaborative program designed for students interested in publishing; writing workshops and seminars; a year-round internships for college students; LITLIT (the Little Literary Fair), an annual public festival celebrating West Coast independent publishers and literary arts. The LARB Book Club, a level of our membership program, brings writers, readers, and LARB editors together quarterly in conversation about a selected title; the LARB Luminary Evening series features writers in conversation with readers in homes around Los Angeles. In all of our publications, programs, and events, LARB aims to connect writers and artists to readers both in Los Angeles and across the globe.

