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Some Favorite Writers: Justin Torres

Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles , CA

Justin Torres’ latest book Blackouts received the 2023 National Book Award for fiction and was called a “shimmering, fable-like novel” by The Washington Post. Filled with tales-within-tales, redacted pages, illustrations...

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Poetry: Monica Youn

Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles , CA

Monica Youn’s most recent volume is FROM FROM, a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award. Among her many honors are the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the William...

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Some Favorite Writers: Joan Silber

Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles , CA

Novelist Joan Silber has written nine books of fiction including Improvement (2017), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award. The New York Times...

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Hammer Poetry Series: Boris Dralyuk

Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles , CA

Poet Boris Dralyuk reads from his most recent volume, My Hollywood and Other Poems, a collection of lyric meditations on the experience of émigrés in Los Angeles. The Poetry Foundation...

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Hammer Poetry Series: Maureen McLane

Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles , CA

Maureen McLane, poet, literary critic, and connoisseur of both the canon and the experimental tradition, epitomizes Wallace Steven’s dictum that “poetry is the scholar’s art.” Her six distinguished volumes of...

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Some Favorite Writers: Adam Moss

Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles , CA

In Adam Moss’s new book The Work of Art, the former editor of New York magazine asks “What is the work of art?” Weaving conversations with some of the most...

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Hammer Poetry Series: V. Penelope Pelizzon

Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles , CA

Written over a decade while the author lived on four continents, award-winning poet V. Penelope Pelizzon’s latest collection, A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye, maps the cultural legacies...

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Some Favorite Writers: Fae Myenne Ng

Hammer Museum 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles , CA

Best-selling author Fae Myenne Ng’s new memoir, Orphan Bachelors, offers a personal, timely portrait of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on...

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