Martin Amis. Labeled an iconic writer, one of the best of the postwar British authors. Sometimes his novels are bitingly funny and ironic, and some books are dark and unsettling.
Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and short story writer Junot Díaz writes some of the edgiest– and idealistic– prose in American fiction.
We hope you’re having a good and relaxing summer. We’ll post our upcoming programs soon, so watch for the following:
Writers Bloc co-sponsors this program with thanks to the Nazarian Center for Israel Studies at UCLA and UCLA’s Department of Comparative Literature. We invite you to participate in a wonderful cultural event featuring Arab Israeli author, satirist and television comedy writer Sayed Kashua, in conversation with UCLA Professor Arieh Saposnik.
We at Writers Bloc revel in our embarrassment of riches. Dick Van Dyke with Carl Reiner. Consistently cited as one of the best shows in American television history, The Dick Van Dyke Show brought together Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie and Morey Amsterdam– backed by the herculean strength of Carl Reiner’s vision and writing. That show was legendary for any number of reasons—for Dick Van Dyke’s radiant warmth and multigenerational appeal, and perfect comic genius, for Mary Tyler Moore’s brilliance, for the…
Only a handful of writers in America have explored the Chinese immigration experience as fully as Lisa See. No one, however, has done it with as much variety, depth or reach to a wide audience. From her thrilling family story, On Gold Mountain, to her new novel, Dreams of Joy, Lisa See has mined individual, familial and collective Chinese American stories to produce a most wonderful window into what it means to be part of both cultures as a woman in the 20th and 21st…