Alan Rifkin is a Southern California novelist and essayist. A former contributing editor of ''
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Film and television
* ''Details'' (film), a 2003 Swedish film
* ''The Details'' (film), a 2011 American film
* ''The Detail'', a Canadian television series
* "The Detail" (''The Wire''), a television epis ...
'' magazine, he has also written for the ''
Los Angeles Times Magazine'', ''
Premiere
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'', ''
L.A. Weekly
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'', ''Buzz'' and ''
The Quarterly
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''. His first book, ''Signal Hill'', was a finalist for the 2004 Southern California Booksellers Awar
in Fiction. He was also a finalist for the 2003 PEN Center USA Award in Journalism.
Rifkin host
The Last We Fake a weekly serialized fiction podcast from Los Angeles. He lives in
Los Angeles
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.
Trivia
In the TV series
''Action'', an unknown writer named Adam Rafkin is confused with Alan Rifkin in a key plot point.
References
Books
* Rifkin, Alan. ''Signal Hill: Stories''. City Lights Books. 2003.
* Rifkin, Alan (co-author), Jerry Burgan, foreword by Sylvia Tyson. ''Wounds to Bind: A Memoir of the Folk-Rock Revolution''. Rowman & Littlefield. 2014.
* Rifkin, Alan. ''Burdens by Water: An Unintended Memoir''. Brown Paper Press. 2016.
* Rifkin, Alan. ''The Drift That Follows Will Be Gradual: A Novel''. Open Books. 2024. ISBN 978-1-94859-879-8
External links
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21st-century American novelists
American male journalists
American male novelists
Living people
21st-century American male writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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