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Alan Rifkin

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Alan Rifkin
Occupations
Years active2003-present

Alan Rifkin is a Southern California novelist and essayist. A former contributing editor of Details magazine, he has also written for the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Premiere, L.A. Weekly, Buzz and The Quarterly. His first book, Signal Hill, was a finalist for the 2004 Southern California Booksellers Award [1] in Fiction. He was also a finalist for the 2003 PEN Center USA Award in Journalism.[1] Rifkin hosts The Last We Fake, a weekly serialized fiction podcast from Los Angeles. He lives in Los Angeles.

Trivia

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In the TV series Action, an unknown writer named Adam Rafkin is confused with Alan Rifkin in a key plot point.

References

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  1. ^ "PEN Center USA | Home". Archived from the original on 2007-08-09. Retrieved 2007-08-17.

Books

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  • Rifkin, Alan. Signal Hill: Stories. City Lights Books. 2003. ISBN 978-0-87286-424-5
  • Rifkin, Alan (co-author), Jerry Burgan, foreword by Sylvia Tyson. Wounds to Bind: A Memoir of the Folk-Rock Revolution. Rowman & Littlefield. 2014. ISBN 978-0-8108-8861-6
  • Rifkin, Alan. Burdens by Water: An Unintended Memoir. Brown Paper Press. 2016. ISBN 978-1-94193-204-9
  • Rifkin, Alan. The Drift That Follows Will Be Gradual: A Novel. Open Books. 2024. ISBN 978-1-94859-879-8
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