Seasonal Velocities and After the Election

A few months ago, my friend Isabelle went to a Literary Death Match where she heard LA writer Ryka Aoki read her essay/story “Olga from the Sky.” Isabelle described it to me as a story of a “weird encounter in LA”; we have something of a habit of exchanging our own weird encounters on the streets of this city. She was so taken with Ryka Aoki’s story that she went up to her after the readings to thank her for sharing it and she bought Seasonal Velocities, the collection of poems, stories, and...