Lisa Locascio takes a closer look for Los Angeles Magazine at five Los Angeles-area presses “you should know”—Rare Bird Books, Writ Large Press, Gold Line Press, Phoneme Media, and Les Figues Press. About Les Figues, Locascio notes:

Les Figues endeavors to make writing and reading events in and of themselves, and can be counted on to offer some of the most exciting lit events in L.A. each year—check out their listings page here for proof—but Les Figues (French for “figs,” that most luscious and innuendo-laden of fruits) publishes a cornucopia of avant-garde texts, many of which so wholly embrace last word of the press’s motto “Beauty, Belief, Bawdry” that we can’t reprint their names here.

Read the full profile of Les Figues and profiles of all five presses at Los Angeles Magazine.