**MISSING CHILD UPDATE**

Mint Butterfield has been safely located and reunited with family. Thank you to those who spread the message and assisted with the search.

Read an excerpt from 'Chipped: Writing from a Skateboarder’s Lens,' by José Vadi, a collection of essays from Soft Skull Press.

In it, Vadi honors the memory of Thrasher Magazine editor Jake Phelps, who died suddenly in 2019. altaonline.com/dispatches/a60…

Tomorrow Alta Journal will be at
Pages: A Bookstore celebrating #indiebookstoreday ! Come join us and contributors: Santi Elijah Holley, Victoria Patterson, and g!

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I don’t ask for your help often, but I need it now…my friend’s 16-year-old has gone missing.

Please spread this far and wide, and if you have any information about their whereabouts, call the number on this flyer.

We're all set up at the LA Times Festival of Books!

Check out our lineup of two days of book signings, beginning at 10 a.m. today with Daniel A. Olivas (he/him), Luis J. Rodriguez for Governor of California, @thegregsarris, José Vadi, Lydia Kiesling, Myriam Gurba Serrano, @santiholley, and more: altaonline.com/events/a603594…

Come to Alta Journal tent 111 now for your signed copy of my new novel, Chicano Frankenstein! Here until 11:00 a.m. #LATFOB Alta Journal Blaise Zerega LA Times Festival of Books

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is almost here! Come by Alta Journal's booth 111 (near #TommyTrojan ) and meet some lovely authors. I will be there Saturday, 10:00 to sign Chicano Frankenstein. Details: altaonline.com/events/a603594… #LATFOB D. J. Waldie Myriam Gurba Serrano José Vadi

Check out José Vadi talking to Charlie Vargas about CHIPPED, Vadi's new book about skateboarding and life out today from Soft Skull Press

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Ian’s desk, basement 💕

Thursday night at City Lights!

Thank YOU Lisa See. We're thrilled!

My latest Alta Journal co-columna defends the Red Hot Chili Peppers (kinda) and picks California's state song. RT, porfas! altaonline.com/dispatches/a60…

Introducing myself as 'solidly middle-aged author' at parties.

Looks like we in Ukraine are going to have yet another night of Russian missile attacks… at least 13 Tupolev Tu-95MC bombers are up in the air right now likely preparing to deliver strikes.

Goodnight from Ukraine, which is fighting for its survival against one of the most…

can't wait for this class with Victoria! Also, if you can't make all the sessions or want to rewatch anything they are recorded.

Is this you? The The Boston Globe has an opening for an arts and entertainment editor. Folks, this is an incredible job, with tremendously talented and dedicated colleagues. A rare, wonderful opportunity for the right person. Please spread the word: …stonglobemediapartners.applytojob.com/apply/yyRakrFI…

Congrats to Ada Limón, one of twelve luminaries spotlighted in TIME's Women of the Year feature 🚀🌕 time.com/collection/wom…

“If you just sit down in front of the screen and read what you wrote yesterday, that’s enough. Writing is all about the unconscious, and the unconscious should be checking in with the story every day.” —Walter Mosley buff.ly/46q0TI3

I will be a guest author of the Maryland Writers' Association on February 24, 1:00 p.m. (Eastern) to discuss my story collection, How to Date a Flying Mexican, and the short form. Everyone is invited, it's virtual, and free! #shortstories #writinglife #Maryland