For the fifth issue of Black Clock, LA-based as well as LA-inspired writers cover the city from Hollywood to the advancing fringes of the Inland Empire and beyond. In the process, several notions of the city crystallize and then dissolve into the less-than-pristine but hazily fascinating aura that sprawls around it.
Singular, idiosyncratic and a little mysterious, Black Clock is one of America's leading literary journals.
Issue— #5
- Dwayne MoserBelow The Line
- Hannah BleierFor Guadalupe (And For Michael): One
- Yxta Maya MurrayTheseus At Los Angeles
- Joy NicholsonMy Cruel Summer
- Lisa TeasleyModus Operandi
- Howard A. RodmanGood Life
- Tom CarsonThe Victor Muet Mansion, 6601 Callia Lily Canyon Road, Brentwood: A Brief History
- A.J. AlbanyOff Ramp
- Jenna BloughThe People Upstairs
- Lynell GeorgeTouching Tables
- Jonathan LethemMonster Eyes
- Alan RifkinAlt.Country
- Bruce BaumanBroken Sleep
- Todd CollinsCowboys
- Lou MathewsThe Moon Reaches Down For Me Like The Fist In A Siquieros Painting
- Susan StraightHer Royal Highness
- Jenny BurmanNicola
- Benjamin WeissmanMr. Peanorse And The Nice Family
- Rachel ResnickSway
- Carlos Ruiz ZafÓnLos Angeles By Gaslight
- David MartinoWelcome To Esplandian
- Peter GadolAmerican Modern
- Mary Yukari WatersWriting About LA And Why I Failed
- Francesca Lia BlockIn Her Own Words