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Jervey Tervalon

Jervey Tervalon
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Jervey Tervalon

Jervey Tervalon is the author of All the Trouble You Need, Understand This, and the Los Angeles Times bestseller Dead Above Ground. An award-winning poet, screenwriter, and dramatist, Jervey was born in New Orleans, raised in Los Angeles, and now lives in Altadena, California, with his wife and two daughters.

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Excerpt 1 from All the Trouble You Need
Apr 05, 2013
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from Lita
Dec 07, 2012
Lita will be released on November 01, 2007 in eBook
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All the Trouble You Need will be released on February 25, 2003 in Trade Paperback
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All the Trouble You Need is now available in Trade Paperback
Feb 25, 2003
All the Trouble You Need will be released on February 25, 2003 in
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All the Trouble You Need is now available in
Feb 25, 2003
All the Trouble You Need will be released on May 07, 2002 in eBook
May 07, 2002
All the Trouble You Need will be released on May 07, 2002 in eBook
May 07, 2002

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Santa Barbara Independent, June 6, 2013
...writer/director Stephen Chbosky, Joy School author Elizabeth Berg, Santa Barbara queen of mystery Sue Grafton, novelist and teacher Jervey Tervalon, and acclaimed and accomplished fiction writer Thomas McGuane. “Years ago, Thom came to the conference,...
Pasadena Weekly, May 31, 2013
...year, The Pasadena Writers’ Project was originally founded by local writer and entrepreneur Carla Sameth and local author, Jervey Tervalon. She and I team teach the workshop, our current participants all women, most new writers. Gale Cohen, local...
Los Angeles Times, May 10, 2013
...are the driving force behind the event: Gold, Wilson (the public editor at the Star News), and novelist Jervey Tervalon. Litfest Pasadena just seemed necessary in a city like Pasadena with all of our writers, artists and scientists and our amazing...
Pasadena Star News, April 2, 2013
...Huneven, who also writes the book's insightful foreword; graphic and detective novelist Gary Phillips; acclaimed Altadena novelist Jervey Tervalon; native daughter Naomi Hirahara of the Mas Arai mystery series. There are lots of writers you have heard...
InlandSoCal.com, January 1, 2013
...and scientists. The readers include Los Angeles Review of Books Editor Tom Lutz;… Show more Altadena novelist Jervey Tervalon; Los Angeles short story writer and novelist Lisa Teasley; young writer Andrew Ramirez; mystery writer Gary Phillips; Slake...
KCET, November 30, 2012
...screen. This week LA Letters features those repurposing myth and making their own literature, music and maps like Jervey Tervalon, J Michael Walker, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Jesse Bliss and Austin Peralta. Jervey Tervalon is a very busy man making...
Media Bistro, June 6, 2013
...are Yvette Cabrera, Phuong-Cac Nguyen, Sam Slovick and Alex Kacik. Congrats on the launch. RELATED: Tags: Alex Kacik, Jervey Tervalon, Joe Donnelly, Phuong-Cac Nguyen, Sam Slovick, Yvette Cabrera Comments Share...
Santa Barbara Independent, June 6, 2013
...writer/director Stephen Chbosky, Joy School author Elizabeth Berg, Santa Barbara queen of mystery Sue Grafton, novelist and teacher Jervey Tervalon, and acclaimed and accomplished fiction writer Thomas McGuane. “Years ago, Thom came to the conference,...
Pasadena Weekly, May 31, 2013
...year, The Pasadena Writers’ Project was originally founded by local writer and entrepreneur Carla Sameth and local author, Jervey Tervalon. She and I team teach the workshop, our current participants all women, most new writers. Gale Cohen, local...
KCET, May 17, 2013
...Prospect Park Books, Red Hen Press, Poets & Writers Magazine, Rare Bird Lit, and Otis Books. Author-organizers like Jervey Tervalon, Roz Helfand, and Lawrence Wilson were on panels as well as behind the scenes. Prospect Park Books is one of the small...
Los Angeles Times, May 10, 2013
...are the driving force behind the event: Gold, Wilson (the public editor at the Star News), and novelist Jervey Tervalon. Litfest Pasadena just seemed necessary in a city like Pasadena with all of our writers, artists and scientists and our amazing...
Pasadena Weekly, May 9, 2013
...fans attended to see a mix of panels, readings and numerous other fun events, co-organizer and local author Jervey Tervalon expects this weekend’s edition to be even better. “Pasadena’s a swinging town and has a lot of diversity and great writers...
Pasadena Patch, May 9, 2013
...USC Campus Sunday, April 28, 2013, 2PM With Petrea Burchard, Margaret Finnegan, Rachel M. Harper, Cynthia Adam Prochaska, Jervey Tervalon, John Vorhaus, & Lawrence Wilson Saturday, May 11, 10AM LitFest Pasadena With Naomi Hirahara, Liza Palmer,...