Lynell George
@lynellgeorge.bsky.social
Journalist, Essayist, Author, Pen-and-Paper Enthusiast, Wanderer
Latest book: "A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler"
Southland
Latest book: "A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler"
Southland
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Venice Bakery is remembering those that have died in ICE custody this year by adding them to their community altar for Dia de Los Muertos.
By @eltragon.bsky.social
By @eltragon.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Venice Bakery is remembering those that have died in ICE custody this year by adding them to their community altar for Dia de Los Muertos.
By @eltragon.bsky.social
By @eltragon.bsky.social
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Steppenwolf is embarking on its 50 anniversary season as one of America’s pre-eminent theater companies. Laurie Metcalf, Gary Sinise and other members of the Chicago company reminisce about unexpected performances, stunning monologues and career-changing roles.
Laurie Metcalf and Other Steppenwolf Members on 50 Years of ‘Freedom Onstage’
Laurie Metcalf, Gary Sinise and other members of the Chicago company reminisce about unexpected performances, stunning monologues and career-changing roles.
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October 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Steppenwolf is embarking on its 50 anniversary season as one of America’s pre-eminent theater companies. Laurie Metcalf, Gary Sinise and other members of the Chicago company reminisce about unexpected performances, stunning monologues and career-changing roles.
“Able to bring dynamic, highly musical playing to open-minded free jazz, R&B-leaning instrumental grooves and everything in between, DeJohnette is perhaps best known as the drummer in Miles Davis’s fusion period, contributing to albums such as Bitches Brew…”
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
Jack DeJohnette, versatile jazz drummer known for Miles Davis fusion recordings, dies aged 83
Drummer played on Bitches Brew and other landmark recordings, as well as making numerous albums as a bandleader
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
“Able to bring dynamic, highly musical playing to open-minded free jazz, R&B-leaning instrumental grooves and everything in between, DeJohnette is perhaps best known as the drummer in Miles Davis’s fusion period, contributing to albums such as Bitches Brew…”
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
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Jack DeJohnette
📸 Jimmy Katz, as seen in Galleria Nazionale Dell’Umbria, Perugia, Italy
📸 Jimmy Katz, as seen in Galleria Nazionale Dell’Umbria, Perugia, Italy
October 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Jack DeJohnette
📸 Jimmy Katz, as seen in Galleria Nazionale Dell’Umbria, Perugia, Italy
📸 Jimmy Katz, as seen in Galleria Nazionale Dell’Umbria, Perugia, Italy
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“To look for lessons in what Baldwin wrote makes him a figure like Walter Benjamin or Michel Foucault or Frantz Fanon: we find in him what we need to.” —Darryl Pinckney
Love’s Anguish and Force and Terror | Darryl Pinckney
Nicolas Boggs structures his moving new biography of James Baldwin around the writer’s most important relationships with men.
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October 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
“To look for lessons in what Baldwin wrote makes him a figure like Walter Benjamin or Michel Foucault or Frantz Fanon: we find in him what we need to.” —Darryl Pinckney
“His voice never aged, the cat on the café terrace staring down the moon when all the squares have gone to bed. For all his keenness of observation and sympathy…his was not the voice of a generation. He belonged entirely to himself.” www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Love’s Anguish and Force and Terror | Darryl Pinckney
Nicolas Boggs structures his moving new biography of James Baldwin around the writer’s most important relationships with men.
www.nybooks.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
“His voice never aged, the cat on the café terrace staring down the moon when all the squares have gone to bed. For all his keenness of observation and sympathy…his was not the voice of a generation. He belonged entirely to himself.” www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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LOS ANGELES, CA—Headed now to DTLA to begin today’s coverage of the LA #nokings protests. There are big ones and other auxiliary protests scheduled until well past 6 so I’ll be threading things service permitting to this account all day.
The train has a decent amount of folks w/signs and costumes
The train has a decent amount of folks w/signs and costumes
October 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
LOS ANGELES, CA—Headed now to DTLA to begin today’s coverage of the LA #nokings protests. There are big ones and other auxiliary protests scheduled until well past 6 so I’ll be threading things service permitting to this account all day.
The train has a decent amount of folks w/signs and costumes
The train has a decent amount of folks w/signs and costumes
“There comes a moment during most LA evenings when the heat gives up; it happens in an instant.”
— Angela Flournoy
#SundaySentence
— Angela Flournoy
#SundaySentence
October 13, 2025 at 1:32 AM
“There comes a moment during most LA evenings when the heat gives up; it happens in an instant.”
— Angela Flournoy
#SundaySentence
— Angela Flournoy
#SundaySentence
My piece for Sierra magazine, “The Burn Scars of Altadena,” was included in this list, from the LA Times, enumerating stories that trained their focus on the fire storms of January. www.latimes.com/california/n...
The first drafts of L.A.'s fire nightmare are already being written
Your morning catch-up: The horrors of the January wildfires, thunderstorms and muggy weather ahead for SoCal and more big stories.
www.latimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
My piece for Sierra magazine, “The Burn Scars of Altadena,” was included in this list, from the LA Times, enumerating stories that trained their focus on the fire storms of January. www.latimes.com/california/n...
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The suspect accused of igniting the fire that destroyed LA's Pacific Palisades neighborhood allegedly used a ChatGPT prompt to show "a burning forest and a crowd fleeing from it," months prior, officials say
Man arrested, faces federal charge in connection with Palisades Fire: DOJ
The fire caused widespread destruction in Los Angeles County and killed a dozen people earlier this year.
abcnews.go.com
October 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The suspect accused of igniting the fire that destroyed LA's Pacific Palisades neighborhood allegedly used a ChatGPT prompt to show "a burning forest and a crowd fleeing from it," months prior, officials say
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ABC has posted the first 28 minutes of @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social
WATCH:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...
WATCH:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...
Jimmy Kimmel is Back!
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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September 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
ABC has posted the first 28 minutes of @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social
WATCH:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...
WATCH:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...
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Pray for your teacher friends. The load is heavy right now. Teaching in this political climate is a LOT.
September 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Pray for your teacher friends. The load is heavy right now. Teaching in this political climate is a LOT.
This week's @altajournal.bsky.social Book Review features my Q & A with author Susana M. Morris about her new book Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler—which explores the worlds that shaped Butler and how they influenced her imagination. www.altaonline.com/books/nonfic...
Charting One’s Own Course
Susana M. Morris discusses her research for Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler and her subject’s legacy.
www.altaonline.com
September 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
This week's @altajournal.bsky.social Book Review features my Q & A with author Susana M. Morris about her new book Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler—which explores the worlds that shaped Butler and how they influenced her imagination. www.altaonline.com/books/nonfic...
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Gratitude and love to Paul Yamazaki, City Lights's longtime book buyer, who will receive the Northern California Book Awards GROUNDBREAKER AWARD at their ceremony this Saturday, 2pm, held at the SF Main Library’s Koret Auditorium.
It's free to attend.
See you there?
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It's free to attend.
See you there?
poetryflash.org/programs/?p=...
September 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Gratitude and love to Paul Yamazaki, City Lights's longtime book buyer, who will receive the Northern California Book Awards GROUNDBREAKER AWARD at their ceremony this Saturday, 2pm, held at the SF Main Library’s Koret Auditorium.
It's free to attend.
See you there?
poetryflash.org/programs/?p=...
It's free to attend.
See you there?
poetryflash.org/programs/?p=...
“Among Polidori’s…photographs, I identified places in my very neighborhood. I certainly never expected to stand elbow to elbow w/ tourists in the Met to look at images of these streets lined with humble homes. Only in ruins could they hang on these hallowed walls.” oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/what-...
What John Updike Got Wrong About Katrina
oxfordamerican.org
September 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
“Among Polidori’s…photographs, I identified places in my very neighborhood. I certainly never expected to stand elbow to elbow w/ tourists in the Met to look at images of these streets lined with humble homes. Only in ruins could they hang on these hallowed walls.” oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/what-...
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Black Star: The Life and Work of Octavia Butler
--essay by Michael A. Gonzales
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--essay by Michael A. Gonzales
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August 28, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Black Star: The Life and Work of Octavia Butler
--essay by Michael A. Gonzales
crimereads.com/black-star-t... via @crimereads.bsky.social @amistadbooks.bsky.social @lynellgeorge.bsky.social
--essay by Michael A. Gonzales
crimereads.com/black-star-t... via @crimereads.bsky.social @amistadbooks.bsky.social @lynellgeorge.bsky.social
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Small crescent setting over Orleans street, New Orleans
August 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Small crescent setting over Orleans street, New Orleans
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After the rain, Royal and Dumaine, New Orleans
August 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
After the rain, Royal and Dumaine, New Orleans
“It was like watching the development of a photograph in reverse: the moment my boyhood sensations became identifiable was the instant they disappeared.”
— Keith McNally
From “I Regret Almost Everything”
#SundaySentence
— Keith McNally
From “I Regret Almost Everything”
#SundaySentence
August 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
“It was like watching the development of a photograph in reverse: the moment my boyhood sensations became identifiable was the instant they disappeared.”
— Keith McNally
From “I Regret Almost Everything”
#SundaySentence
— Keith McNally
From “I Regret Almost Everything”
#SundaySentence
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For Sidney Clifton, it had always been a dream to make things right. Her parents—poet Lucille & artist Fred—lost their family home, 40+ years ago due to foreclosure. In 2019, she reacquired the property: The Clifton House is now an artists’ creative hub. My latest: savingplaces.org/stories/lite...
Literary Giant Lucille Clifton's Home Now Serves as a Hub of Creative Expression | National Trust for Historic Preservation
A daughter of poet Lucille Clifton repurchased her family's former house in Baltimore, and is using it to help creatives thrive.
savingplaces.org
August 13, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Zócalo's latest miniseries explores L.A.'s Literary Public Square. Read from @davidulin.bsky.social on his journey from NYC to L.A., Brittany Menjivar & Sammy Loren on the "alt-lit" scene, @lynellgeorge.bsky.social on making literary community, and John Szabo on libraries. zps.la/LitLA
Los Angeles' Literary Public Square
Literature—the reading it, the writing it—has a reputation of being a solitary endeavor, best conducted in dark, chilly garrets. But the Los Angeles sun has a way of burning off clichés, allowing them...
zps.la
August 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Zócalo's latest miniseries explores L.A.'s Literary Public Square. Read from @davidulin.bsky.social on his journey from NYC to L.A., Brittany Menjivar & Sammy Loren on the "alt-lit" scene, @lynellgeorge.bsky.social on making literary community, and John Szabo on libraries. zps.la/LitLA
Many years ago, I set out to map out a collection of LA literary spots that held meaning. Many of those places are gone, but the connections — and memories — are still vividly alive. My latest for @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social
"I had found my way into a writer's life, my own micro-climate of bookstores, cafes, and bootleg backroom venues that felt like home enough that sometimes I’d earned my own VIP perch," writes @lynellgeorge.bsky.social. zps.la/3JhsnJo
My Map to a Literary Life in Los Angeles | L.A.’s Literary Public Square
Making Community in Bookshops, Cafes, and Bootleg Backroom Venues
zps.la
August 18, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Many years ago, I set out to map out a collection of LA literary spots that held meaning. Many of those places are gone, but the connections — and memories — are still vividly alive. My latest for @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social
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Mal Waldron was born in New York City on this day in 1925.
📸 Frans Schellekens/Redferns, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 1995
📸 Frans Schellekens/Redferns, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 1995
August 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Mal Waldron was born in New York City on this day in 1925.
📸 Frans Schellekens/Redferns, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 1995
📸 Frans Schellekens/Redferns, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 1995
After losing the family home and studio in the Eaton Fire, John Outterbridge’s
daughter, Tami, borrowed a page out of her father‘s artist guidebook, and took the disaster as a challenge to pull together community and make art. My latest for LA Times: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
daughter, Tami, borrowed a page out of her father‘s artist guidebook, and took the disaster as a challenge to pull together community and make art. My latest for LA Times: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
John Outterbridge's daughter salvages found art from Altadena ruins — with help from his friends
Tami Outterbridge has launched "Digging Bridge," a project to preserve her father's artistic legacy with documentary and excavation of his burned Altadena property.
www.latimes.com
August 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
After losing the family home and studio in the Eaton Fire, John Outterbridge’s
daughter, Tami, borrowed a page out of her father‘s artist guidebook, and took the disaster as a challenge to pull together community and make art. My latest for LA Times: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
daughter, Tami, borrowed a page out of her father‘s artist guidebook, and took the disaster as a challenge to pull together community and make art. My latest for LA Times: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...