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EVENT JULY 29: Anna Dorn at “Life’s a Beach: Publishing in a Pandemic”

Wednesday, July 29 at 4pm PST/7pm EST, Vagablonde's Anna Dorn will participate in “Life’s a Beach: Publishing in a Pandemic.” 

Hosted by the #AnnenbergBeachHouse and #RedHenPress, Kristen Millares Young will moderate this author event joined by Reema Rajbanshi, Deborah A. Lott, and Elizabeth Earley as they read from their works and “discuss the challenges, triumphs, and unexpected realities of publishing during a pandemic.”

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A Toast to Vagablonde on Publication day + an Observer review!

Happy Release Day to Vagablonde by Anna Dorn! We celebrate with a review in Observer from Greta Rainbow. 

Calling Dorn’s debut a “thoughtful story about bodily impulse,” Rainbow notes that while the book “might be pigeonholed [as] LGBTQ fiction...what Dorn most expertly captures is a reckoning with virality on an internet that queer culture helped shape.”

Read: “LA Ambition Rules in ‘Vagablonde,’ the Story of a Lawyer Who Dreams of Becoming a Rapper” by Greta Rainbow in Observer

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Anna Dorn on #WritePlace

We've had time (...sort of) to think about the places we miss, and notice the almost magic quality they retain. Some can be a sanctuary, restoring us to peace, while others recharge our ability to create. For our purposes, we're calling the latter "write places."

What does a #WritePlace look like? It doesn't need to be literal. It can be anything positive and inspiring that has sparked a new perspective on life. We've asked #UnnamedPress Authors to share about places they've found, or are finding, inspiration to create — Anna Dorn, author of the Vagablonde (May 26) had this to say:

"I do my best thinking on the trails of Elysian Park in Los Angeles. Being in nature is humbling to me. My ego dies and my thoughts relax. I remember that I know nothing and I'm not special. It opens space for clarity and perspective."