Alan Rifkin

{{short description|American novelist}}

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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 [http://www.scbabooks.org/] in Fiction. He was also a finalist for the 2003 PEN Center USA Award in Journalism.{{Cite web |url=http://penusa.org/go |title=PEN Center USA | Home |access-date=2007-08-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070809222508/http://penusa.org/go |archive-date=2007-08-09 |url-status=dead }} Rifkin hosts [https://thelastwefake.buzzsprout.com/ The Last We Fake], a weekly serialized fiction podcast from Los Angeles. He lives in Los Angeles.

Trivia

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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=Books=

  • 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