2024-2025 Endowed Lectures

Golo Mann Endowed Lecture with Steph Cha

The Legacies of Crime

Tuesday, October 29th at 5:30pm

Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum

Author Steph Cha will talk about the way crime shapes our world, a theme that drives her writing, from her neo-noir private investigator series to her award-winning novel Your House Will Pay. She will explore the echoes of crimes past and the way they connect with the present, and how the second-generation Korean Angeleno experience captures very American questions of heritage and identity. Steph Cha is the author of Your House Will Pay, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the California Book Award, and the Juniper Song crime trilogy. She’s a critic whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, where she served as noir editor, and is the current series editor of the Best American Mystery & Suspense anthology. A native of the San Fernando Valley, she lives in Los Angeles with her family.

Ms. Cha will deliver the 2024-2025 Golo Mann Lecture, sponsored by the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies at CMC.