Eric A. Gordon

Eric A. Gordon, People’s World Cultural Editor, wrote a biography of radical American composer Marc Blitzstein and co-authored composer Earl Robinson’s autobiography. He has received numerous awards for his People's World writing from the International Labor Communications Association. He has translated all nine books of fiction by Manuel Tiago (pseudonym for Álvaro Cunhal) from Portuguese, available from International Publishers NY.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon

Culture

‘The Third Wife’ recounts a woman’s life in rural 19th-century Vietnam
November 26, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon
The film is the Vietnamese submission for the 77th Golden Globe Awards. It has already won various film festival awards at other cities.
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Culture

World premiere play with music ‘Salvage’ launches in Los Angeles
November 21, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon
Though couched in a language with vaguely religious overtones, the message of Salvage applies to all of us trying to make a difference in the world.
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Culture

‘Fifteen Men in a Smoke-Filled Room’: How Warren G. Harding became president
November 20, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon
The biggest White House corruption scandal ever recorded up to that point in history took place during the early years of Warren G. Harding’s administration.
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Culture

Two new Black-themed plays in L.A.: A history and a comedy
November 15, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon
What are the odds, at any given moment of theatre history in this city, of having two plays running simultaneously, both set during World War II with young Black men trying to enlist in the armed...
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Culture

World-renowned singer Julia Migenes bids adieu with nostalgic French popular songs
November 14, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon
Grammy-winning opera singer Julia Migenes travels back to the Paris of Edith Piaf, Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway in this evening of nostalgic French chansons.
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ILCA

We are CA: A community celebration of 25 years beyond Prop 187
October 29, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon
On Saturday, November 9, the immigrant rights community will come together in a festival to celebrate the powerful immigrant rights movement that arose out of Prop 187.
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Politics

Reproductive rights in the 116th Congress: A clear partisan divide
October 28, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon
Keeping women in submission by disallowing them control over their own bodies and their own families is keeping the whole working class down.
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Culture

Race and grace in Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Between Riverside and Crazy’
October 25, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon
The 2015 Pulitzer Prize committee called Between Riverside and Crazy “a nuanced, beautifully written play about a retired police officer faced with eviction that uses dark comedy to confront questions of life and death.”
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