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Posted inLiterature

Western Lit: A Nerd of Color—A Conversation With So Cal Writer Jervey Tervalon

by High Country News January 13th, 2015

Jervey Tervalon adores Los Angeles—and he wants you to adore it, too. The author, who also teaches literature at the University of California at Santa Barbara, challenges the notion that New York City is the cultural center of the cosmos. “Los Angeles is wonderfully diverse,” he says. “I’ve been dedicating myself to creating a model […]

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