Louise Steinman

Writer/Artist/Literary Curator
Recipient, 2018 Chora Prize

Selected Works

History/Memoir

THE CROOKED MIRROR: A MEMOIR OF POLISH-JEWISH RECONCILIATION

A lyrical literary memoir that explores the exhilarating, sometimes surreal, discomforting, and ultimately healing process of Polish-Jewish reconciliation taking place in Poland in the first decade of the new millennium. [Polish language edition, translation by Dorota Golebiewska. Osrodek Karta, Warsaw, 2021]

THE SOUVENIR: A DAUGHTER DISCOVERS HER FATHER’S WAR

In 1945, an American G.I. mails home a Japanese flag. Fifty years later, his daughter unfolds the past.

Five essays on performance

THE KNOWING BODY: THE ARTIST AS STORYTELLER IN CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE

“…a dazzling and deeply impressive study of the performing arts.”

-Jonathan Kirsch, The Los Angeles Times

Interviews, Essays, Podcasts, Video

"Opinion: How to help Trump's immigration detainees escape from Otay Mesa, one letter at a time"

LOS ANGELES TIMES, Sept 8, 2019

When a Rock is a Stone: Finding "Spiral Jetty",

August 8, 2018, Los Angeles Review of Books.

Los Angeles Times profile, July 2017

Steinman, through the library's ALOUD program, invites writers and thinkers to ponder L.A. and the world

Slight Exaggeration: An Interview with poet Adam Zagajewski

May 28, 2017, Los Angeles Review of Books

The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between

Interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hisham Matar

"Elegantly Wrapped Dung": or, a Polish Journalist's Posthumous Victory

Maciej Ziembinski and the European Court of Human Rights

2016, Los Angeles Review of Books

THE APHASIA BOOK CLUB

Essay about remarkable book club for those suffering from aphasia

Los Angeles Review of Books, Summer Quarterly 2015

WRITER IN EXILE: An Interview withYasmin Merei

Interview with exiled Syrian journalist Yasmin Merei,

writer-in-residence at Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades, CA.

Los Angeles Review of Books, Dec 17, 2015

"A Seismographic Attention: An Evening of and On Poetry"

Interview with poet Jane Hirshfield, ALOUD series, 2015

Yizkor Bukhor: Reflections on the Yiddish Poet Jacob Glatstein

June 27 2011, Los Angles Review of Books THE GLATSTEIN CHRONICLES

CROOKED MIRROR INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR

Nov 7, 2013 Louise Steinman in conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Jack Miles, Los Angeles Public Library

VERA GRAN: The Accused (Los Angeles Review of Books, 2013)

a controversial singer of the Warsaw Ghetto, the subject of a fascinating investigative memoir by Agata Tuszynska

When Women Were Birds/Conversation with Terry Tempest Williams

podcast of my conversation with Terry Tempest Williams at ALOUD on May 9, 2012 (or download from itunes)

Los Angeles Times Nov 11, 2007

Louise Steinman: "Talking about L.A." interview with Jim Newton

Los Angeles Times, Nov 11, 2007

Adopt a Village in Guatemala

I've volunteered with this terrific grassroots org aiding Mayan families in northwestern Guatemala. 10 stars.

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