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# Local journal to be read across Los Angeles
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/local-journal-to-be-read-across-los-angeles/
- Published: 2006-04-28T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T17:40:20.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

Those who value good writing will have a chance to have it read to them, during readings of Santa Monica College’s national arts literary journal.

The spring issue of the Santa Monica Review has been released, and a public reading will be held May 3 at 5 p.m. at the University of California at Irvine Bookstore. The free event will feature readings by current and past contributors. Appearing at UC Irvine will be Leslie Brody, Gary Amdahl and Trinie Dalton.

Featuring fiction and essays by both new and established writers, the journal also will be available at the SMC booth at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books from April 29 to 30 at UCLA.

Review Editor Andrew Tonkovich said free samples of the literary publication will be distributed at the event.

Tonkovich said the latest issue features its usual mix of cutting-edge literary fiction and nonfiction. Essays include a meditation on personal and political identity by writer Leslie Brody (Red Star Sister) and Christopher Buckley’s (Fall From Grace) reminiscence of his childhood in Santa Barbara movie houses. Andrea Cumbo Dowdy offers a dark appreciation of her woodworker father and Canadian poet Mark Smith considers the lives and deaths of three men who helped raise him. National Public Radio’s longtime book reviewer Alan Cheuse (Listening to the Page) shares his thoughts on Point of View.

Fiction offerings include short stories by local writers Jorge Saralegui, Kate Milliken and Alisa Slaughter and another story by Flannery O’Connor Award winner Gary Fincke (Sorry I Worried You).

The issue includes a funny, digressive, wry short story from frequent Review

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 28, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/042806.pdf?ref=smdp.com)