Author Talk at Mar Vista Branch Library–Children’s Event
Join us as author Gretchen Woelfle discusses her new book Answering the Cry for Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American Revolution. Learn about some lesser known figures of America’s past, and then participate in a craft making silhouette figures after the program.
The event is geared for ages 7 and up, and is part of African American Heritage Month.
Where: Mar Vista Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 6th
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm
Address: 12006 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90066
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/author-talk-qa-answering-cry-freedom
Witness to the Revolution at ALOUD Reading Series, Central Library
Author Clara Bingham, in conversation with David Harris, Winter Dellenbach, and Bob Zaugh, discusses her riveting oral history of the end of the 60s, Witness to the Revolution: Draft Resistance in 60’s Los Angeles. The author looks back at the local history of the non-violent draft resistance movement known as The Los Angeles Resistance, the collection of which is now being archived at the Los Angeles Public Library.
Please RSVP at the website.
Where: Central Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 6th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 630 West 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
Website: http://lfla.org/event/witness-revolution-draft-resistance-60s-los-angeles/
Greg Palast at Book Soup
Join us as Greg Palast discusses and signs The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: A Tale of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits. An investigative journalist provides an expose of intrigue, financial misdeeds, and other machinations at the highest level of American politics.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Monday the 30th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
A Narrow Bridge at Chevalier’s
Double your fun with the debut “novelist” J.J. Gesher, which is actually the pen name for a team of two writers, who began their highly successful collaboration writing for film and TV and now launch their debut in fiction with A Narrow Bridge. There aren’t too many places in which an Orthodox Jew from Brooklyn would feel more displaced than the rural deep south, yet this is the cultural bridge our protagonist must cross in a novel hailed for its humane insight and vivid storytelling. Come meet Janet B. Fattel and Joyce Gittlin for a reading, talk, Q&A and signing.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 7th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: http://chevaliersbooks.com
Big Beginnings at Book Soup
Greyson Bryan will discuss and sign his well-received thriller, Big Beginnings, where international espionage meets high-stakes family drama. From L.A.’s towering palms and Tokyo’s steaming noodle bars to London high-finance and Panamanian corruption, Big Beginnings is a thrilling, non-stop ride around the globe.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Tuesday the 7th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/greyson-bryan-discusses-and-signs-big-beginnings
Wintersong at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us to welcome S. Jae-Jones, with Marie Lu, when she discusses and signs Wintersong, a dark, romantic and enchanting coming-of-age story for fans of Labyrinth and Beauty and the Beast. All her life Liesl has heard tales of the Goblin King, and when her own sister is taken by him, Liesl has no choice but to journey to the Underground to save her.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 7th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/s-jae-jones-marie-lu-discusses-and-signs-wintersong
The Refugees at Skylight Bookstore
Viet Thanh Nguyen reads from his new collection of short stories, The Refugees. His first Book, The Sympathizer, was one of the most highly praised novels of 2015, and won the Pulitzer Prize among many other awards. In The Refugees he gives voice to the lives between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. This is a beautifully realized book about the aspirations of those who leave one country for another, and the relationships and desires for self-fulfillment that define our lives.
See website for details on access to this free event.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 7th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/viet-thanh-nguyen-reads-his-new-collection-short-stories-refugees
Caravel at Vroman’s Bookstore
Stephanie Garber, with Jessica Cluess, discusses and signs Caravel, a sweeping ale of two sisters who escape their ruthless father when they enter the dangerous intrigue of a legendary game. Whether Caravel is real or not, Scarlett must find her sister Tella before the five nights of the game are over, or her sister disappears forever.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 8th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/stephanie-garber-jessica-cluess-discusses-and-signs-caraval
Where Memory Leads at ALOUD Reading Series, Central Library
Saul Friedlander, in conversation with Steven J. Ross, historian and director, Casden Institute for the Study of American Jewish Life, will discuss Where Memory Leads: A Holocaust Scholar Looks Back. This sequel to Friedlander’s first memoir, Where Memory Comes, published forty years ago and recently reissued, bridges the gap between the ordeals of childhood during the German Occupation of France and his present-day towering reputation in the field of Holocaust studies.
Please RSVP at website.
Where: Mark Taper Auditorium, Central Library
Date: Wednesday the 8th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 630 W. 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
Website: http://lfla.org/event/memory-leads-holocaust-scholar-looks-back/
Way of the Traveler at the Last Bookstore
Please join us to hear Leon Logothetis, bestselling author of The Kindness Diaries, discuss Live, Love, Explore: The Way of the Traveler. Weaving together some of his hilarious and heartwarming stories of misadventures on the road, he will explore how traveling, externally and internally, can help you live your best life.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 8th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Joel Whitney at Skylight Books
Join Joel Whitney to hear him discuss his new book Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers. When news leaked that the CIA had colluded with literary magazines to produce cultural propaganda throughout the Cold War, a debate began that has never been resolved. Finks is a tale to two CIAs, and how they blurred the line between propaganda and literature.
Where: Skylight Books
Date: Wednesday the 8th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/joel-whitney-discusses-his-new-book-finks
All Lit Up at Chevalier’s Bookstore
This collaborative monthly event offers literary artists and musicians mixed with open mic surprises. This month features:
Christian Geo, a writer, performer and visual artist from NYC, whose piece House of Me has appeared widely, premiered in 2016.
Samantha Dunn is the executive editor of Coast Magazine, and the author of several books, including the novel Failing Paris and a memoir, Not by Accident: Reconstructing a Careless Life. She teaches at Chapman University, in the UCLA Extension Writers Program and at Idyllwild Arts Center, and is an advisor in the PEN USA Emerging Voices Program.
Jackie Bang is a queer whose work has appeared in ZYZZYVA and the Alaska Quarterly Review and the Los Angeles Poetry Circus Chapbook. She is currently at work on Dinner Bait, and will debut Rent Easy in 2017.
Eve Wood is the author of five published books of poems, and her work has appeared in many journals. Also a visual artist, she has exhibited internationally.
Celia Chavez has toured with many musicians, and her own songs retain the flavor of 1970s Laurel Canyon. She moves between several genres at once and is now recording two new releases for 2017.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 9th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: http://chevaliersbooks.com
Lynn Doran at Pages Bookstore
Join us to hear Lynn Doran discuss and sign her new photography book OMO – Images of the Omo Valley Tribes. The extraordinary tribes and vanishing cultures pulled her to the Omo Valley, in the Great Rift Valley of Southwest Ethiopia, one of the world’s last extensive tribal lands which remains so remote that National Geographic calls it “Africa’s last Frontier.”
RSVPs are appreciated.
Where: Pages Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 9th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 126 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: http://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/lynn-doran-omo-event
Elan Mastai at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us to hear Elon Mastai discuss and sign All Our Wrongs Today, the story of the future that people in the 1950s imagined we’d have, happening in Tom Barren’s 2016. What happens when he finds himself trapped in a techno-utopian paradise, but triggers changes in the universe itself, as well as his own life? Filled with humor and heart this author has a mind-bending talent for invention.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 9th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/elan-mastai-discusses-and-signs-all-our-wrong-todays
Carrie Arcos at Skylight Books
Join us to hear Carrie Arcos, author of Crazy Messy Beautiful, a refreshing perspective on love that is anything but a love story. With the highs and lows that reflect the tumultuous nature of teen romance, this is a novel for anyone who’s ever fought for that hard-won happily-ever-after.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 9th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/carrie-arcos-reads-her-young-adult-novel-crazy-messy-beautiful
WCCW Reading Series: Co-Struggle
The WCCW Reading Series is a quarterly literary reading series organized by Sara Finnerty and Nina Rota, and are thematically linked. Please join us to hear four dynamic writers who work in film, theater, poetry, nonfiction and fiction,, and also work with local community groups: Maya Washington, Mady Schultzman, Olga Garcia Echeverria, and Meg Whiteford.
Where: Women’s Center for Creative Work
Date: Thursday the 9th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: 2425 Glover Place, Los Angeles, CA 90031
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/1844059219215110/
Walter Murch & Lawrence Weschler at Hammer Museum
Please join us as we welcome three-time Oscar winner Walter Murch, and author Lawrence Weschler, who will delve into Murch’s quixotic quest to understand planetary systems and musical harmony in his new book, Waves Passing in the Night.
Book signing to follow the event.
Where: Hammer Museum
Date: Thursday the 9th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Website: http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2017/02/walter-murch-lawrence-weschler/
Conflict Is Not Abuse at Book Soup
Join us to hear Sarah Schulman discuss and sign Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair. From intimate relationships to global politics, Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between conflict and abuse, she addresses our contemporary culture of scapegoating, and its consequences and ramifications.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Friday the 10th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Kevin Opstedal and Julien Poirier at Beyond Baroque
Born and raised in Venice, California, Kevin Opstedal is a poet whose latest book, Pacific Standard Time is a collection of new work. Julien Poirer has taught poetry in the New York City and San Quentin State Prison, and was a founding member of the Ugly Duckling Press Collective.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Friday the 10th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 681 N Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
Betsy Rosenthal at Children’s Book World- Children’s Event
This is a Book Launch Party for Betsy Rosenthal and her new book for ages 4-8, Porcupine’s Picnic: Who Eats What? This sweet and slightly scary story is the perfect bite-size introduction to herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores.
Where: Children’s Book World
Date: Saturday the 11th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 10580 ½ W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064
Website: http://www.childrensbookworld.com/Calendar/calendar.htm
Children’s Authors at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us as MG Hennessey, Kristin Clark, and Brie Spangler have a conversation about trans characters in kids literature and their own books. They will also present and sign their latest titles: The Other Boy, Jess, Junk & the Road Trip to Infinity, and Beast.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 11th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/vroman’s-presents-mg-hennessey-kristin-clark-and-brie-spangler
UCR Creative Writing MFAs at Skylight Books
Please join us when UC Riverside MFA students and their professors read from their work. Readers include: Tom Lutz, Charmaine Craig, Katie Ford, Robin Russin, Bernardita Garcia, Ashanti Anderson, Alicia Mosley, Lorelei Baughman, and Emily Margaret Wells.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 11th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave.., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/uc-riverside-mfa-students-and-professors-read-their-work
826LA & Ashaki Jackson at the Hammer Museum–Children’s Event
826LA presents LIST-O-RAMA: The Easiest Poem You’ll Ever Write, for kids ages 8-14. As simple as a grocery list and as tricky as a lock combination, the list poem offers writers a way to tell stories in snapshots. In this workshop, participants write list poems using a word tree, group expercises,a nd sensory stations full of inspiration.
Ashaki M. Jackson is a social psychologist and a poet. Her work appears in CURA magazine, Pluck, and Prairie Schooner, among other publications.
Where: Hammer Museum
Date: Sunday the 12th
Time: 11 am
Address: 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Soap Box Open Reading at Beyond Baroque
The Soap Box Poets Open Reading has a five minute limit and sign-ups begin at 1:45 pm. This is your home. Bring your words. The mic is yours.
Hosted by: Jessica Wilson Cardenas.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Sunday the 12th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
Expressions LA Reading at Hollywood Regional Library
Join us for a couple of hours of Expressions LA poetry and spoken word performance, featuring:
Mike “The Poet” Sonksen and Sean Raymond Hill!!
Mike “The Poet” Sonksen is equally a scholar and performer, Mike Sonksen, also known as Mike the Poet, is a 3rd-generation L.A. native acclaimed for published essays, poetry performances and mentoring teen writers.
Sean Raymond Hill Lived for 8 months in Beijing studying while performing theater deeply impacted and enhanced the passion of living Sean Hill wishes to share with the world. His artistry embraces all people while reminding them of why we are beautifully fun beings regardless of what we go through or what we confront inside or out.
Where: Frances Howard Goldwyn- Hollywood Regional Library
Date: Sunday the 12th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 1623 N. Ivar Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90028
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/expressions-la-frances-howard-goldwyn-regional-library
Discover Literary OC at Gatsby’s Books
Please join us for the book launch celebration of Orange County: A Literary Field Guide, with editors Lisa Alvarez and Andrew Tonkovich. In this anthology more than sixty writers give readers a tour of all of Orange County, in search of vistas of truth. Luminaries include Michael Chabon, Philip K. Dick, Steve Martin, and Susan Straight, who explore the complexities and complications of the county and this locale. Forward by: Gustavo Arellano.
Where: Gatsby’s Books
Date: Sunday the 12th
Time: 3 pm – 4:30 pm
Address: 5535 E. Spring St., Long Beach, CA 90808
Website: http://gatsbybooks.com/book-signings/
Rattle Poetry Reading at Flintridge Books
Rattle Poetry presents readings by poets published in the current edition, including: Jose Hernandez Diaz and Marjorie Saiser.
Diaz holds degrees in English and creative writing from the University of California, Berkeley, and Antioch University Los Angeles. His poetry and prose poetry appears or is forthcoming in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Green Mountains Review, Huizache, Los Angeles Review, New Delta Review, Parcel, Pleiades, The Progressive, and other journals. Diaz has served as an editor for Floricanto Press and Lunch Ticket and is an NEA Fellow in Poetry. He currently lives in Los Angeles.
Saiser is the author of Beside You at the Stoplight, Road Trip, and Lost in Seward County. She has been published in former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser’s column, American Life in Poetry. She has received the WILLA Award and nominations for the Pushcart Prize. She lives in Nebraska and Arizona.
Where: Flintridge Books
Date: Sunday the 12th
Time: 4 pm – 5:30 pm
Address: 1010 Foothill Blvd., La Canada, CA 91001
Website: http://www.flintridgebooks.com
The Unsettlers at Skylight Books
Author Mark Sundeen discusses his book The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today’s America. This book follows a diverse group of Americans, urban and rural, female and male, black and white, on their complicated quest for a simpler life in modern times, raising questions about how we live, eat and work.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 12th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/mark-sundeen-discusses-his-book-unsettlers
Enemy in the Garden at Beyond Baroque
This program, Enemy in the Garden: Fact or Fiction?, will contrast fact and fiction about anti-Semitism in America. As the author of a thriller on point, Harriet Pike will introduce a fictional family in suburban Long Island of the 1970s caught in a web of an anti-government, ant-Semitic plot. Simon Wiesenthal’s Co-Director of Digital Terrorism and Hate Project, Rick Eaton will then talk about the reality of anti-Semitism in today’s America with the author, followed by an audience Q&A.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Sunday the 12th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
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