Fall SM Review To Debut at Beyond Baroque

Readings Will Include Selections from Krusoe’s Iceland

   Beyond Baroque, a leading Los Angeles literary center, will mark the release of the fall issue of the Santa Monica Review, Santa Monica College’s literary arts journal, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, October 4.
   The event will feature readings by recent contributors Dylan Landis and Ann Redisch Stampler, as well as a reading by Review founder and former Beyond Baroque board member Jim Krusoe from his critically acclaimed new novel, “Iceland.”
   Tickets are $7 general admission, $5 students and senior citizens, and free for Beyond Baroque members. Call (310) 822-3006. Beyond Baroque is located at 681 Venice Boulevard in Venice.
   Featuring fiction and essays by both new and established writers, the fall issue of the journal includes works by California poets Sharon Doubiago and Michael Guista.
   “I am especially pleased to include a long personal essay by poet Sharon Doubiago, whose writing I have long admired,” said Andrew Tonkovich, Review editor. “Her post-9/11 meditation on being the grandmother of an Arab-American child is personally moving and politically challenging.”
   Also featured is an excerpt from Stampler’s coming-of-age tale “Land of Opportunity,” an essay by Eran Williams based on her experiences as a Peace Corps forester in Africa; and Guista’s “In Praise of Adolescence,” a take on a young man’s entrée into the confusing and sometimes sadistic teenage world.
   Other contributors to the latest volume of the biannual publication are Ed Skoog, Catherine Harris, Chieh Cheng, Alan DeNiro, Peter Moore Smith, Toni Mirosevich, and Jenny McPhee.
   This is the Review’s thirteenth year. It’s available at many Los Angeles area bookstores, including Midnight Special in Santa Monica and Dutton’s in Brentwood. Annual subscriptions may be had for $12 by writing to Andrew Tonkovich, Editor, Santa Monica Review, Santa Monica College, 1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, 90405.
   Writers may submit manuscripts (fiction and nonfiction, but no poetry) to Tonkovich at the same address.
   For more information, visit the Review’s new website at www.smc.edu/ sm_review.