The Drift That Follows Will Be Gradual
by Alan Rifkin
Alan Rifkin's essays and short stories of Los Angeles have been published widely, including by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Publishers; Gordon Lish's fiction journal The Quarterly from Vintage Books; and in numerous print and digital anthologies. He is the author of Signal Hill: Stories; Burdens by Water: An Unintended Memoir; and, with We Five's Jerry Burgan, Wounds to Bind: A Memoir of the Folk-Rock Revolution.
A finalist for both the PEN Center-USA Award in Journalism and the Southern California Booksellers Award in Fiction, Rifkin now lectures fulltime in Creative Writing at California State University, Long Beach, and he also hosts The Last We Fake fiction podcast, which showcases both established authors and student voices.
A graduate of UCLA (Political Science) and the MFA Fiction Program at CSULB, he lives in Los Angeles.
The Drift That Follows Will Be Gradual
Alan Rifkin’s new novel in stories threads together a reporter’s cherished past—1980s, Los Angeles—and his mentally ill millennial son’s anguished attempt to claim his own season in the sun.
Books by Alan Rifkin
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