Jami Nakamura Lin is a Chicago-based writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Electric Literature, and Bat City Review, but you might know Lin from her former Catapult column, “The Monsters in the Mirror'' where she wrote about motherhood and bipolar disorder. She expands on the vulnerability of writing about “monstrous rage” in her debut speculative memoir The Night Parade (out on November…
Arriving back in Los Angeles when the orange trees were in flowery bloom, their fragrance nearly knocked me over, flooding me with childhood memories. The poet Mahmoud Darwish said that, “cities are smells.” Well, I can tell you, Los Angeles is the perfume of orange blossoms, jasmine, and the salty sea.