“Rifkin’s characters are ruined, desperate creatures, comic and soulful, perpetually in line for a ladle full of redemption.” —Hammer Museum
“Rifkin is what might have happened had Nathanael West lived on and been even more talented . . . . Exquisite.” —Kirkus Reviews
Alan
Rifkin is a former Details and L.A. Weekly contributing editor who has also written for Premiere, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Los Angeles
Times Magazine, Black Clock and The Quarterly,
ed. Gordon Lish. A finalist for both the PEN Center-USA
Award in Journalism and the Southern California Booksellers
Award in Fiction, he has led workshops in magazine writing,
short story and creative nonfiction at UCLA Extension,
Santa Monica College, Chapman University and California
State University, Long Beach. He is active in the homeless
ministry at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Long
Beach and is the father of three children.