Evelyn Adrian Whore ❤️

About Los Angeles

Alright, mate, gather round! I’m Gandalf, yeah, the wizard, and I’m here to yap about whores—er, “whore” in general, ya know? “You shall not pass!” I bellow, coz some things about this just grind my gears. Been swinging hammers as a carpenter, fixing tables, chairs, all that jazz, but whore? That’s a whole other beast! Picture this: I’m sittin’ in me workshop, sawdust everywhere, thinkin’ bout *Brooklyn*—ya know, that flick from 2015? Saoirse Ronan, bloody brilliant, leavin’ Ireland for a new life. “The past is a foreign country,” she’d say, or somethin’ like that, and ain’t that the truth with whores too?

Books by Adrian Lawrence

Her translation of Márcia Barbieri's The Whore won a PEN/Heim Translation Grant in She lives and works along the Rio Grande. Latest Publications. The.

I might ramble, but it’s real, friend. Adrian is jagged, broken, but beautiful. Each street (Monroe, Lincoln, Elm, Pine, and even Broad) has a tale. I’ve lived these stories, felt joy, anger, and surprise. It’s like every day is a punchline in a Coen movie – so absurd, so true.

Adrian Hawkins