Poets & Allies for Resistance at Sidewalk Café
Join us for a LABOR DAY poetry event by Poets & Allies for Resistance, hosted by Khadija Anderson, with an Open Mic and featuring:
Regina Higgins is a writer, audiobook and performance artist.
Marvin Dorsey is a member of the writing group, Emerging Urban Poets, in Pasadena, and is a member of the reading ensemble The Inner Four. He has produced six chapbooks over the years and is included in several anthologies highlighting poets of the San Gabriel Valley.
Bring 1-2 poems about social justice or come to listen!
Where: Sidewalk Café HTS
Date: Monday the 4th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 2057 N. Los Robles Ave., Altadena, CA 91104
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events
90X90LA: Drunken Masters: Sci-Fi at Wolf & Crane Bar
Celebrate!
Investigate!
Resist!
Join us when three writers read/perform short excerpts from a work-in-progress in front of a panel of three established writers in the field who provide on-the-spot feedback. But these master writers have been plied with drink or PG indulgence of their choosing. An entertaining (and sometimes riotous) evening ensues.
This week’s theme is Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Sci-Fi (broadly defined).
Masters will include Jennifer Brody and others TBD.
Curated by Janine Lim & Jeff Rogers
Where: Wolf & Crane
Date: Monday the 4th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 366 E. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://90x90la.com/drunken-masters-sci-fi-m-94-8pm/
Write Away Workshop at Fairview Branch, Santa Monica Library
Gain support and encouragement in your writing efforts form fellow writers in this local writers’ meet-up.
Where: Fairview Branch, SMPL
Date: Tuesday the 5th
Time: 12 pm – 2:30 pm
Address: 2101 Ocean Park Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=24315
90X90LA: TNC Tailgate Potluck
Celebrate!
Investigate!
Resist!
Hosted by your friends at TNP, join in and kick it with us under the corner awning of the Aratani Courtyard before TNP begins. BYOB and snacks to share and we’ll provide sweet treats from local favorites. Then stay and enjoy the show!
Where: Tuesday Night Project (TNP)
Date: Tuesday the 5th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 120 Judge John Aliso St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://90x90la.com/tnc-tailgate-potluck-tu-95-6pm/
Author Andrea Bolter at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us to hear Andrea Bolter discuss and sign her romance novel, Her New York Billionaire. When artist Holly Motta arrives in New York to make a new start, she finds billionaire Ethan Benton occupying the apartment where she was meant to stay. Surprisingly, Ethan needs a fake fiancée—fast—and he wants her to fill the role. Complications ensue.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 5th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/andrea-bolter-discusses-and-signs-her-new-york-billionaire
Emily Ziff Griffin at the Last Bookstore–Teen Event
Join us to hear Emily Ziff Griffin discuss and sign her debut YA novel, Light Years. As a mysterious virus infects the world’s population, a girl embarks on a quest to find a cure. Suspenseful, lyrical, and thought-provoking, this book features a remarkable heroine on an intensely physical and emotional quest for hope and existential meaning.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 5th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Adam McOmber at Book Soup
Join us to hear Adam McOmber discuss and sign his collection of stories, My House Gathers Desires. These lush, hallucinatory stories are both familiar and wholly original. Drawn from the historical record, Biblical lore, fairy tales, science fiction, and nightmares, these offbeat and fantastical works explore gender and sexuality in their darkest and most beautiful manifestations.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Tuesday the 5th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/adam-mcomber-discusses-and-signs-my-house-gathers-desires
Three Authors at Skylight Bookstore
Join us to hear Shawna Kennedy and Rich Dolinger discuss their book Live at the Safari Club, with Mike Gitter and his book XXX Fanzine.
Live at the Safari Club: A People’s History of HarDcore is the uncensored history of a notorious underground punk venue in the nation’s capital, told by the very bands, fans, promoters, artists and activists that made it happen.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 5th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
D.J. Steinberg at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us to hear D.J. Steinberg, who will present his book, King Louie’s Shoes, the hilarious true story of King Louis XIV of Frnace and his famous high-heeled shoes! King Louis was only five-feet-four-inches short, so he and his cobbler cooked up the perfect solution to make him look taller. But after an embarrassing tumble he learns his subjects were loyal no matter how big—or shrimpy—their beloved Louie might be.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 6th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/d-j-steinberg-discusses-and-signs-king-louie%E2%80%99s-shoes
Amelia Gray at Otis College of Art and Design
Join us at Otis Visiting Writers Series to hear Amelia Gray discuss and sign her work. She is the author of the short story collections AM/PM, Museum of the Weird, and Gutshot, as well as the novels Threats, and, most recently, Isadora. She is the winner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, of FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize, and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award.
Where: Otis College of Art and Design, The Forum, Goldsmith Campus
Date: Wednesday the 6th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 9045 Lincoln Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: https://www.otis.edu/mfa-writing/visiting-writers-series
Three Artists at The World Stage
Join us at The World Stage to hear Gloria Enedina Alverez and Leisei Chen (co-founders of Michael White Quintet & D-Magnets Publishing), and Emile Poree perform their work.
Where: The World Stage, Education & Performance Gallery
Date: Wednesday the 6th
Time: 7:45 pm – 11 pm
Address: 4321 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
90X90LA: Wellness Writing at Aratani Theatre Stage
Celebrate!
Investigate!
Resist!
Hosted by traci akemi kato-kiriyama and F. Douglas Brown, join us to hear and participate in a themed workshop. We will start with a brief conversation on our writing process and artistic and social practice. We will then facilitate writing exercises throughout the evening, with a brief period of sharing for participants at the end of the night.
Where: Aratani Theatre, JACCC
Date: Wednesday the 6th
Time: 7:45 pm
Address: 224 S. San Pedro St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://90x90la.com/wellness-writing-wednesday-w-96-745pm/
Read a Play at Ocean Park Branch, Santa Monica Library
Discover great plays while uncovering your inner actor and performance artist. This new monthly group will read through a different play each month, with each person in attendance taking part in the read through.
This month’s selection: Our Town by Thornton Wilder.
Where: Ocean Park Branch, SMPL
Date: Thursday the 7th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 2601 Main St., Santa Monica, CA 90405
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=22672
Jon D’Amore at Small World Bookstore
Please join us to hear Jon D’Amore read and sign Deadfellas, the follow up to his bestselling memoir, The Boss Always Sits in the Back.
Refreshments will be served. A splendid time is guaranteed for all!
Where: Small World Bookstore, Venice on the boardwalk
Date: Thursday the 7th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: 1407 Ocean Front Walk, Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://www.facebook.com/pg/Small-World-Books-166430960038111/events/?ref=page_internal
Erin Carlson, with Caroline Aaron, at Book Soup
Please join us to hear Erin Carlson, in conversation with actress Caroline Aaron, present and sign I’ll Have What She’s Having: How Nora Ephron’s Three Iconic Films Saved Romantic Comedy. This is a backstage look at the making of Nora Ephron’s revered trilogy of films: When Harry Met Sally, You’ve Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle. Entertainment journalist Carlson takes readers on a revelatory trip to Ephron’s New York City, where her attention to detail appealed to actors but exasperated crew members, and how she triumphed on-screen with assorted cynical collaborators.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Thursday the 7th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
All Lit Up Event at Chevaliers’ Bookstore
Please join us at our All Lit Up event to hear three poets:
Charif Shanahan is the Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, and was called “a vital and profound new voice” by Publisher’s Weekly after releasing Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing.
Victoria Chang is the recipient of a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship, and will read poems from her California Book Award winning The Boss, about Wall Street and the life of excess.
Siel Ju recently published the Red Hen Press Fiction Manuscript Award-winning, Cake Time.
Read excerpts of their work at our website.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 7th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: http://www.chevaliersbooks.com/alusept
Ben Loory at Skylight Bookstore
Join us to hear Ben Loory discuss and sign his second collection of stories, Falling and Flying. This book invites us into his worlds of whimsical fantasy, deep empathy, and playful humor. His characters are richly imagined and show surprising perspectives, and appeal to fans of fantasy, horror, and sci-fi, as well as contemporary literary fiction.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 7th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/ben-loory-reads-his-new-book-tales-falling-and-flying
90X90LA: Wellness Writing at JACCC
Join us for a morning of writing prompts led by local writers and publishing on the spot. PUBLISH! is our ongoing underground publishing project, which has been traveling all over and publishing hundreds of writers from around the world. It is about more than a sentence, a book, a text. We understand that YOU are the art that you are creating, you are the narrative that you are trying to plot, you are the word on the page and the pages bound into a book!
Where: Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (JACCC)
Date: Thursday the 7th
Time: 9:30 pm
Address: 224 S. San Pedro St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://90x90la.com/publish-th-97-930am/
Victoria Jamieson at Children’s Book World–Children’s Event
Join us to hear Victoria Jamieson, the Newberry Honor-winning author of Roller Girl. Her new book, All’s Faire in Middle School, is a heartwarming graphic novel about starting middle school, surviving your embarrassing family, and the Renaissance Faire. This is the story of an eleven-year-old girl who decides to prove her bravery by going ot public school after a life of begin home-schooled. Feel free to come in a costume and joint the fun. (Ages 8-13)
Where: Children’s Book World
Date: Friday the 8th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 10580 ½ W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064
Website: http://www.childrensbookworld.com/Calendar/calendar.htm
Nancy Pearl at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us to welcome NPR books commentator Nancy Pearl to discuss and sign her debut novel, George & Lizzie. These two characters have radically different understandings of what love and marriage should be. So, George is happy, and Lizzie remains…unfulfilled. This is an intimate story of new and past loves, the scars of childhood, and an imperfect marriage at its defining moments.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Friday the 8th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/nancy-pearl-discusses-and-signs-george-lizzie
#90X90LA: Four Pairs
Join us for Four Pairs, a celebration of all the amazing writers of color in Los Angeles…plus an amazing guest writer visiting us. These writers have been part of the most important writing residencies in the country: Cave Canem, Kundiman, CantoMundo, and VONA.
The four pairs include:
Charif Shanahan and Morgan Parker (Cave Canem)
Joseph Rios and Sara Borjas (CantoMundo)
Vickie Vertiz and Tk Le (VONA)
Douglas Brown and Muriel Leung (Kundiman)
Curated by Chiwan Choi
Where: Post & Beam
Date: Friday the 8th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 3767 Santa Rosalia Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: http://90x90la.com/four-pairs-f-98-8pm/
Judy Schachner at Children’s Book World–Children’s Event
Join us to hear author Judy Schachner, the creator of the beloved Skippyjon Jones books, read and sign her books, for ages 4-8.
Schachner’s new book, Sarabella’s Thinking Cap, is about the importance of imagination and creativity. There is so much going on in our heroine’s head that it can barely be contained, and with her teacher’s understanding and encouragement she comes up with her own idea to show everyone who she is.
Where: Children’s Book World
Date: Saturday the 9th
Time: 10:30 pm
Address: 10580 ½ W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064
Website: http://www.childrensbookworld.com/Calendar/calendar.htm
Author on Architecture at Santa Monica Library
Please join us to hear Sarah Schrank discuss and sign her new book, Healing Spaces, Modern architecture, and the Body, which explores the significance of the sun to modern concepts of healthful architecture.
Where: Martin Luther King, Jr. Auditorium, SMPL
Date: Saturday the 9th
Time: 1 pm – 3 pm
Address: 2601 Main St., Santa Monica, CA 90405
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=24388
Debbi Michiko Florence and D.L. Green at Children’s Book World– Children’s Event
Join us to hear authors Debbi Michiko Florence and D.L. Green, read and sign their books, for ages 6-9.
Florence’s charming first book is a new chapter book featuring a spunky Japanese-American heroine, Jasmine Toguchi, Mochi Queen, eight-year-old Jasmine, whose older sister always gets to do things first, like helping the women make mochi at New Year’s.
Green has two delightful series. In Zeke and the Stinky Soccer Team, third-grader Zeke Meeks joins a soccer team only to find disappointments. In Silver Sparkling Jewel, Tori is super-excited to spend summer at Gran’s ranch.
Where: Children’s Book World
Date: Saturday the 9th
Time: 2:30 pm
Address: 10580 ½ W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90064
Website: http://www.childrensbookworld.com/Calendar/calendar.htm
90X90LA: Our Voices: A Reading & Discussion at Cielo
Join us for Our Voices: A Reading & Discussion with Adoptees of Color, produced and curated by Julayne Lee.
This reading and conversation is centered on Korean adoptees.
Where: Cielo Galleries/Studios
Date: Saturday the 9th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 3201 Maple Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90011
Website: http://90x90la.com/voices-reading-discussion-adoptees-color-sa-99-3pm/
Ben Loory & Victoria Chang at Gatsby’s’s Bookstore
Join us to hear authors Ben Loory and Victoria Chang, read and sign their books.
Ben Loory is the author of the collections, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day, and Tales of Falling and Flying, as well as a picture book for children, The Baseball Player and the Walrus. He lives in Los Angeles, where he is currently an instructor for the UCLA Writers Extension Program.
Victoria Chang is a poet and children’s book author, and will share her work in conversation with Ben.
Where: Gatsby’s Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 9th
Time: 3 pm – 4:30 pm
Address: 5535 E. Spring St., Long Beach, CA 90808
Website: http://gatsbybooks.com/book-signings/
Ultimate Journeys for Two at Book Soup
Please join us to hear Mike & Ann Howard discuss and sign, Ultimate Journeys for Two: Extraordinary Destinations on Every Continent. This book, written by the founders of HoneyTrek.com, reveals hidden-gem destinations and insider tips for unforgettable couples travel.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Saturday the 9th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Fantasy Author at Flintridge Bookstore
Please join us to hear Christopher Husberg discuss and sign, Dark Immolation, Book Two of The Dark Fantasy Series. A new religion is rising, gathering followers drawn by rumors of Prophetess Jane Oden. Her sister Cinzia fears that Jane will lead them to ruin, and much worse may come.
Where: Flintridge Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 9th
Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: 1010 Foothill Blvd., La Canada, CA 91011
Anne Gisleson, with Matt Sumell, at Skylight Bookstore
Join us to hear Anne Gisleson discuss her memoir, The Futilitarians, with Matt Sumell, in a story of people in early middle age who may not treat reading as a deep dive into existentialism, but who probably should. When two friends start the Existential Crisis Reading Group, their goal is to tackle the big questions, but when one’s father dies after the first gathering, their monthly quest takes on greater significance and helps her forge a path out of grief.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 9th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Leann Vogel Keto at Pages Bookstore
Please join us to hear Leann Vogel Keto discuss and sign, The Keto Diet. This book is for anyone searching for healthy and delicious paleo-friendly whole food recipes that will help your body burn fat, 30-day meal plans targeted toward your goals, and tools to make your keto life a breeze.
RSVP at website due to space considerations.
Where: Pages Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 8th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: http://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/leanne-vogel-keto-event
L.A. Latino Book Festival at La Plaza de Cultura y Artes–Family Event
Join us for the annual Los Angeles Latino Book and Family Festival for exhibits, storytelling, meet the authors, workshops, fun activities, education, entertainment, culture, food, and much more!
Where: La Plaza de Cultura y Artes
Date: Sunday the 10th
Time: 10 am – 5 pm
Address: 501 N. Main St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
826LA Comedy Writing for Kids at Hammer Museum–Children’s Event
Please join us for a workshop for kids ages 8-14, for a Creative Comedy Writing Workshop presented by Julia Prescott for 826LA. Julia is a TV writer and showrunner who has worked for many studios.
Experience firsthand how professional comedy writers pitch an idea and develop a world through heightening and “the game of the scene.”
Where: Hammer Museum
Date: Sunday the 10th
Time: 11 am – 1 pm
Address: 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Website: http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2017/09/826lahammer-creative-comedy-writing/
Red Hen Groundbreaking at New Space in Pasadena
Join us for a Groundbreaking Celebration and Fundraiser at our new permanent space! there will be refreshments from local vendors, alive piano performance, and readings by acclaimed Red Hen authors.
Where: Red Hen’s New Literary Center
Date: Sunday the 10th
Time: 1 pm – 5 pm
Address: 1540 Lincoln Ave., Pasadena, CA 91103
Website: http://redhen.org/events/red-hen-press-groundbreaking-ceremony/
Soap Box Poets Open Reading at Beyond Baroque
Join us for our monthly Soapbox Poets Open Reading hosted by Jessica Wilson Cardenas. Sign-ups begin at 1:45 pm and there will be a five-minute limit.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Sunday the 10th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
We the Resilient at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us to hear editors Sarah Bunin Benor and Tom Fields-Meyer discuss and sign, We the Resilient: Wisdom for America from Women Born Before Suffrage. This book highlights the voices of the women born before 1920, when the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. Their wisdom offers needed perspective, reassurance, and inspiration at this critical moment in our history.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 10th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Teresa Sullivan at Diesel Bookstore
Join us to hear Teresa Sullivan discuss and sign her memoir, Mikey and Me: Life with My Exceptional Sister. When Mikey is young, the Sullivans are a closely knit unit, but as she grows older, she also grows increasingly violent. By the time she’s twelve she’s institutionalized, and the family begins to unravel. Throughout their struggle, the family is united in their love and concern for Mikey.
Where: Diesel Bookstore, Brentwood
Date: Sunday the 10th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: http://dieselbookstore.com/event/teresa-sullivan-discusses-and-signs-mikey-and-me
The Lost Causes at Chevalier’s Bookstore
Join us to hear best friends and authors Alyssa Embree Schwartz and Jessica Koosed Etting discuss and sign their YA novel, The Lost Causes. This book gives us the voices of the kids that no one knows—or no one wants to know. All are chosen for intensive group therapy because they’re out of other options. They’re lost causes, the therapist tells them, and this support group will help them heal. There is one problem: she’s not a therapist. And she offers a serum that gives each kid a psychic power.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 10th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: http://www.chevaliersbooks.com/alyssajessica
Public Works Improv at Beyond Baroque
This Public Works Improv show presents “Reelin’ in the Years” and celebrates the bumps and grinds of outrageous fortune, and features: Lee Bock, Antonieta Villamil, Mark Lipman, Richard McDowell, Vinnie Caggiano, Shadi Mahfoud and Anna Broome.
Hosted by Eric Vollmer
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Sunday the 10th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
The Rattle Reading Series at Flintridge Bookstore
This Rattle Reading Series event features Susan Cohen and Ananda Lima, who will read and discuss their work.
Susan Cohen is a recovering journalist, whose poem “After the Boston Marathon Bombing” appeared in Rattle’s Poets Respond series in May 2015, and then in her second full-length collection, A Different Wakeful Animal, winner of the Red Dragonfly Press’ Meadowhawk Prize and a runner-up for the Philip Levine Prize.
Ananda Lima is attending Rutgers-Newark for her MFA in fiction, was selected for the AWP Writer to Writer program, and currently works as staff at Sewanee. Her poem “Line” appears in Rattle #57 and “When They Come for US on the 7 Train” in Poets Respond.
Where: Flintridge Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 10th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1010 Foothill Blvd., La Canada-Flintridge, CA 91011
Website: http://www.rattle.com/readings/
Jae Jemc, with Amelia Gray, at Skylight Bookstore
Join us to hear Jae Jemc read and discuss her new novel, The Grip of It, with Amelia Gray (Isadora). This compelling new novel has garnered early comparisons to the literary horror of Shirley Jackson, Mark Z. Danielewski, and Henry James. For nearly a decade Jae Jemc has been one of Chicago’s most active underground writers, and this is her first novel with a mainstream publisher. It’s narrated in alternating chapters by James and Julie Khoury, a millennial couple who have reluctantly migrated from the city to a quaint locale to buy their first home. Then their eccentric, elderly neighbor seems to be spying on them, and strange things start to happen.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 10th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, C 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/jac-jemc-reads-her-new-novel-grip-it-amelia-gray-0
90x90LA: Indie Film Workshop at TBA
Please check back and join us when we have details available for our Indie Film Workshop, TBA on this date.
Where: TBA
Date: Sunday the 10th
Time: TBA
Address: TBA
Website: http://90x90la.com/indie-film-workshop-su-910-tba/
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