Aris Janigian

Aris Janigian is author of four novels: Waiting for Lipchitz at Chateau Marmont, Bloodvine, Riverbig, and This Angelic Land. He is also co-author along with April Greiman of Something from Nothing, a book on the philosophy of graphic design. A Ph.D. in psychology, from 1993 to 2005 he was senior professor of Humanities at Southern California Institute of Architecture. He has published in genres as diverse as poetry, social psychology, and design criticism. He was a contributing writer to West, the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, a finalist for the William Saroyan Fiction Prize, and the recipient of the Anahid Literary Award from Columbia University.
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The Armenian Poet of Washington Heights

Special to the Armenian Weekly By Aris Janigian In 2011, writer and director Christopher Atamian’s pristine translation of Nigoghos Sarafian’s The…

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Reviews

Book Review: ‘The Paintings of Art Pinajian: A Family Story’

The Paintings of Art Pinajian: A Family Story By Peter Najarian Regent Press, Berkley, California (July 1, 2015); 228 pages…

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Interviews

Retelling David of Sassoun: An Interview with David Kherdian

In Fresno, where I grew up just a couple of blocks down from William Saroyan’s childhood home, there was a…

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Culture

The Road to ‘This Angelic Land’

In late spring 1992, Los Angeles seized and erupted. This time it wasn’t an earthquake or wildfire or landslide from…

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