Alan Rifkin Explained

Alan Rifkin
Years Active:	2003-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 http://www.scbabooks.org/ 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

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: PEN Center USA | Home . 2007-08-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070809222508/http://penusa.org/go . 2007-08-09 . dead .