Tinna Flores & Janice Shapiro Reading for Santa Monica Review

Tinna Flores

Janice Shapiro

Tuesday, June 4, at 2 PM on KPFK: My show this week is a special Fund Drive Performance Edition, a reading taped at a recent launch party for the newest (spring 2024) issue of the Santa Monica Review, the West Coast literary magazine founded by writer Jim Krusoe 36 years ago, and sponsored by Santa Monica College. Published twice yearly, the journal features fiction and nonfiction from diverse, funny, politically and creatively engaged writers of all styles. This episode features short readings by Tinna Flores and Janice Shapiro, with me briefly reminding listeners to support Pacifica Radio station KPFK in Los Angeles. Tinna Flores reads her short story “Dumb Luck,” and Janice Shapiro reads her essay “Better Places.”

About the writers: Tinna Flores was born in Honduras and raised in Miami.  She has a BA in Narrative Studies from USC, where is working on a master’s degree in Literary Editing and Publishing. Janice Shapiro is the author of Bummer and Other Stories.  Her graphic novel, Honoria, arrives from Fantagraphics Press in January 2025. She’s been a frequent contributor to the Santa Monica Review since its founding.

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