Welcome to Diane Lefer's page
with Kevin McCarthy, actor and brother of Mary McCarthy, at Dutton's Brentwood Books
(photo credit: Rachel Canon)
Coming soon onstage: Pablo Escobar Packs His Bags for Heaven
For more plays, please go to the script catalog of the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights and enter my name in the Quick Find box in the middle of the page.
Click for more about California Transit, awarded the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, published by Sarabande Books.
Click to read Los Angeles Times review
"From the world that could not be saved, the storyteller salvages small, strange stuff and assembles it into a narrative of alarming beauty and mystery and sadness.....we follow her anywhere...a rigorous and passionate inquiry of the highest order." - Carole Maso
"Lefer's characters...are Californians obsessed with social and economic injustice, the welfare of animals, the politics of the body and the Kafkaesque horrors of immigration law....Lefer's book certainly deserves attention."--San Francisco Chronicle
"Diane Lefer is one of the most gifted and witty writers around....California Transit contains such a wide range of quirky events and rich characterizations that it is as memorable and satisfying as any fiction. In other words, grab this book--you will not be disappointed, for each of her stories is a well-told and compelling gem." -- Oscar Hijuelos
For years I tried to divide my time and juggle creative work and activism. Since the Bush years? Can't keep them apart.
And now...Hooray for President Obama! But the struggle for justice goes on.
For example, see these excerpts from interviews I did for The Sun Magazine:
Tram Nguyen
Connie Rice
and my work with Hector Aristizabal (including the full text of the Sun interview, "The Blessing Is Next to the Wound."
Personal/Political Essays: search for my name at:
LA Progressive
Other books: Very Much Like Desire; The Circles I Move In; Radiant Hunger
Interviews:
In LA TACO by Frankie Colmane
In BiblioBuffet
by Daniel Jaffe
Sarabande Books Author Interview
See our book of faculty essays on the craft of writing: Words Overflown by Stars
Click for Upcoming Events
Contact: DianeLefer@gmail.com [an error occurred while processing this directive]