Norman M. Klein is the author of the award-winning media novel Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles, 1920 -1986 (2003). A novelist, media and urban historian, his other works include The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory; 7 Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon; The Vatican to Vegas: A History of Special Effects; FREUD IN CONEY ISLAND AND OTHER TALES (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions, 2006); A History of the Present: The Dismantling of the American Psyche; and THE IMAGINARY 20TH CENTURY (ZKM, 2016). He teaches at California Institute of the Arts.



Margo Bistis is a cultural historian and curator. She has published essays on philosophical modernism, caricature and urban culture, and is the author of a forthcoming book, Fanfare for Bergson's Ideas: Popular Enlightenment Culture in the Age of Mass Literacy. She teaches at Art Center College of Design.