Edward J. Larson at Santa Monica College
Join us to hear renowned author, professor, lawyer, and 1988 Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson read from his work and studies. Larson is the author of Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion.
Where: HSS 165, Santa Monica College
Date: Tuesday the 12th
Time: 11:15 am
Address: 1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: http://smc.edu/AboutSMC/Pages/Events.aspx
Poetry Open Mic at the Westwood Branch Library, LAPL
Join us to share your masterpiece, or just to listen and enjoy!
Hosted by Wyatt Underwood
Where: Westwood branch Library, LAPL
Date: Tuesday the 12th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 1246 Glendon Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-open-mic-2
Red Hen Press Reading at Annenberg Beach House
Join us to hear Amy Hassinger, Ellen Meeropol, Lena Kahlaf Tuffaha, Peggy Shumaker, and Sheetal Gandhi read and discuss their work.
Amy Hassinger is the author of Nina: Adolescence, The Priest’s Madonna, and After the Dam.
Ellen Meeropol’s characters live on the fault lines of political turmoil and human connection. She is the author of House Arrest, and Kinship of Clover.
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is an American poet of Palestinian, Jordanian, and Syrian heritage, and is the Winner of the 2016 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize. She is the author of a collection of poems, Water and Salt.
Peggy Shumaker’s newest book of poems is Toucan Nest, and she is also the author of Gnawed Bones and Blaze.
Sheetal Gandhi is a multi-talented performer and multi-hyphenated artist. She is now based in Los Angeles, where she initiates her own creative projects
FREE event and open to the public. Please reserve parking at website.
Where: Annenberg Beach House
Date: Tuesday the 12th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 415 Pacific Coast Hwy., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: http://redhen.org/events/rhp-at-the-annenberg-beach-house/
Two Authors at Vroman’sBookstore
Join us to hear Meg Medina and Lilliam Rivera present and sign their books, Burn Baby Burn and The Education of Margot Sanchez.
Burn Baby Burn is a coming-of-age novel set in a time when New York seemed balanced on a knife-edge, with tempers and temperatures running high, the summer of 1977, during a massive blackout.
The Education of Margot Sanchez is also a coming-of-age novel, a bold and romantic tale about dysfunctional families, good and bad choices, and finding the courage to question everything you thought you wanted.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 12th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Matthew Zapruder, with David Ulin, at Skylight Bookstore
Join us to hear Matthew Zapruder, who will present and discuss his book, Why Poetry, with David Ulin. This is an impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers, by a critically acclaimed poet. Further, he claims that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it.
Matthew Zapruder is an associate professor in the MFA program at Saint Mary’s College of California, and is editor-at-large at Wave Books, as well as former editor of the poetry column for the New York Times Magazine.
David Ulin is the author most recently of the novel, Ear to the Ground.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 12th
Time: 7:30 am
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/matthew-zapruder-discusses-his-new-book-why-poetry-david-ulin
Bill Nye, with Gregory Mone, at Mira Costa High School–Teen/High School Event
Join us to hear Bill Nye the Science Guy, with journalist/author Gregory Mone, the authors of the Jack Genius Series. This is a FREE event but reservations are required and can be obtained at the link on the Pages Bookstore website.
Where: Mira Costa High School (with Pages Bookstore off-site assistance)
Date: Wednesday the 13th
Time: 6 am
Address: 1401 Artesia Blvd., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: http://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/bill-nye-science-guy-and-gregory-mone-author-event
Ben Loory and Amelia Gray at Chevalier’s Bookstore
Join us to hear Ben Loory read from and sign Tales of Falling and Flying, PLUS hear him in-conversation with Amelia Gray. Loory is the critically acclaimed author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day, and contributor to The New Yorker and This American Life. Gray is the author of Isadora, an imaginative portrait of Isadora Duncan.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 13th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/ben-loory-amelia-gray
90X90LA: Wellness Writing at Aratani Theatre Stage
Celebrate!
Investigate!
Resist!
Hosted by traci akemi kato-kiriyama and Ashaki M. Jackson, 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 13th
Time: 7:45 pm
Address: 224 S. San Pedro St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://90x90la.com/wellness-writing-wednesday-w-913-745pm/
Danzy Senna, with Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, at Chevalier’s Bookstore
Please join us to hear Danzy Senna read from her new novel, New People, in conversation with Sarah Shun-lien Bynum.
Danzy Senna, author of the bestselling Caucasia and a Whiting Award winner, will read from her new book, which has been called seductive and haunting by some of her contemporaries. She loves to write about troublesome characters and precarious positions.
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, another Whiting Award winner, and author of Madeleine is Sleeping and Ms. Hemple Chronicles, recently published a short story in the New Yorker, titled “Burgler.”
Read excerpts of their work at our website.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 14th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: http://www.chevaliersbooks.com/danzy-senna-sarah-bynum
Romina Russell at Vroman’s Bookstore
Please join us to hear Romina Russell read from her epic sci-fi fantasy series, Zodiac, which reaches its breathtaking conclusion with the fourth and final book, Thirteen Rising. The master has been unmasked. Rho’s world has been turned upside down. With her loved ones in peril and all the stars set against her, can she muster the strength to keep fighting?
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 14th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/romina-russell-discusses-and-signs-thirteen-rising
Bill Nye, with Gregory Mone, at Flintridge Bookstore
Please join us to hear Bill Nye the Science Guy, with co-author Gregory Mone, read from his Jack and the Geniuses book series, book #2, In the Deep Blue Sea, which combines real-world science with a mysterious adventure that will leave kids guessing until the end, making the books ideal for STEM education. Integrating science facts with humor and suspense, and featuring a multiethnic cast of boy and girl characters, this series is and irresistible combination for middle grade readers.
This is a ticketed event that costs the amount of purchase of one book.
Where: Flintridge Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 14th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 1010 Foothill Blvd., La Canada-Flintridge, CA 91011
Tod Goldberg, with David Ulin, at Skylight Bookstore
Join us to hear bestselling author Tod Goldberg, with David Ulin, read from and sign his new novel, Gangster Nation, the sequel to his crime novel Gangsterland. This book picks up two years after legendary hitman Sal Cupertino disappeared into the guise of Las Vegas Rabbi David Cohen. Now, everything is coming up gold for David, but Sal wants out. He only needs to make it through the High Holidays and he’ll have enough money to slip away and start fresh. But former FBI agent Matthew Drew is looking for vengeance for the murder of his former partner, and he has other plans.
With the wit and gritty glamour that defines his writing, Goldberg traces how the things we most value in our lives have been built on the enterprises of criminals.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 14th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/tod-goldberg-reads-new-novel-gangster-nation-david-ulin
90X90LA: Read Beats at LATC
Join us for Read Beats, the intersection of a literary reading and live musical performance, an improvisation of word and note.
Curated by Ivan Robles & Peter Woods
Where: Los Angeles Theatre Center (LATC)
Date: Thursday the 14th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 514 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://90x90la.com/read-beats-th-914-8pm/
Julie Rogers & Susan Heldfond-Saunders at Beyond Baroque
Join us to hear Julie Rogers and Susan Heldfond-Saunders, heart friends and vintage Zen & Tibetan Buddhist practitioners, perform their poetry to the spirit of jazz, opening, revealing, and uplifting “presence” in the world.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Thursday the 14th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
William Kent Krueger at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us to welcome William Kent Krueger to discuss and sign his latest pulse-pounding thriller, Sulpher Springs. Cork O’Connor’s search for a missing man in the Arizona desert puts him at the center of a violent power struggle along the Mexican border, a struggle that might cost Cork everything and everyone he holds most dear.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Friday the 15th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/william-kent-krueger-discusses-and-signs-sulfur-springs
90X90LA: Odes for Art Laboe
Join us for Odes for Art Laboe, the final installment of this series that celebrates music with poetry, and poetry with music. We will celebrate Odes and love poems as we celebrate the legendary Art Laboe.
FULL Bar open all night. Guest DJs and dancing to follow.
Curated by F. Douglas Brown and Joseph Rios
Where: Civic Center Studios
Date: Friday the 15th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 207 South Broadway, Suite One, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://90x90la.com/odes-for-art-laboe-f-915-8pm/
Phoebe Ozuna & Holaday Mason at Beyond Baroque
Join us to hear two authors:
Phoebe Ozuna read from The Large Economy of the Beautiful, her latest from Cahuenga Press.
Holaday Mason reads from her new work.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Friday the 15th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
Book to Art Club at Brand Library, Glendale
Please join us for the Book to Art Club, which combines reading, discussion, and art-making. Today’s book discussion and art project is based on themes from the book Paris for One, by Jojo Moyes.
Please RSVP at website.
Where: Brand Library
Date: Saturday the 16th
Time: 10:30 am – 12 pm
Address: 1601 West Mountain St., Glendale, CA 91201
Website: http://www.glendaleca.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/27718/125?selcat=68&curm=9&cury=2017
90X90LA: Youth Arts & Literary Festival at Cielo–Yong Adult Event
Join us for a Youth Arts & Literary Festival, a celebration and showcase of art, music, and literature created and performed by youth, and produced by Skira Martinez.
Where: Cielo Galleries/Studios
Date: Saturday the 16th
Time: 12 pm
Address: 3201 Maple Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90011
Website: http://90x90la.com/youth-art-literary-festival-sa-916-noon/
Salman Rushdie at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us to hear author Salman Rushdie read and sign The Golden House, a modern American epic set against the panorama of contemporary politics and culture—a hurtling, page-turning mystery that is equal parts The Great Gatsby and The Bonfire of the Vanities.
On the day of Barak Obama’s inauguration, an enigmatic billionaire from foreign shores takes up residence in a cloistered community in Greenwich Village, a bubble within a bubble. This modern epic of love and terrorism, loss and reinvention, is a powerful, timely story told with daring and panache, a force of light in our dark new age. This book also marks Rushdie’s triumphant and exciting return to realism.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 16th
Time: 1 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/salman-rushdie-signs-golden-house
The Inner Three at Santa Catalina Library
Please join us at Saturday Afternoon Poetry as we feature The Inner Three: CaLokie, Don Kingfisher Campbell, and Marvin Louis Dorsey. We will also feature an Open Reading.
Curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell
Where: Book Soup
Date: Saturday the 16th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 999 E. Washington Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
Alistair McCartney, with David Francis, at Skylight Bookstore
Join us to hear Alisataire McCartney discuss his book, The Disintegrations, with David Francis, an innovative, haunting autobiographical novel, in which the author recounts his lifelong obsession with death. Within this dizzying investigation into the mystery of death is another mystery: who is the companion igniting these memories?
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 16th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Three Poets at Beyond Baroque
Join us to hear poets Mark Irwin, Douglas Manuel, and Kate Partridge.
Marl Irwin’s nine collections of poetry include A Passion According to Green (2017), American Um: New & Selected Poems (1987-2014) (2009), Bright Hunger (2004), and White City (2000).
Douglas Manuel’s first full-length collection of poems, Testify, was released in the spring of 2107.
Kate Partridge’s recently published Ends of the Earth won a University of Alaska Press prize.
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: Beyond Baroque
Date: Saturday the 16th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90912
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
90X90LA: Discussion on Accessibility at Avenue 50 Studios
Join us for a Discussion on Accessibility in the Literary Arts, curated by Loretta McCormick.
Where: Avenue 50 Studios
Date: Sunday the 17th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 131 N. Avenue 50, Highland Park, CA 90042
Website: http://90x90la.com/discussion-on-accessibility-su-917-2pm/
Alex Dimitov & Melissa Broder at Beyond Baroque
Alex Dimitrov, New York author of Begging for It, will be reading from his new collection Together and By Ourselves (Copper Canyon Press). Poet and essayist Melissa Broder, author of Last Text (Tin House 2106) will be reading as well.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Sunday the 17th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
Expressions Reading Series at Hollywood Regional Library
join us for Expressions, poetry and spoken word performances, and sign up to present at our Open Mic.
Our featured poets today are:
Cynthia Alessandra Braino is Director of the Rapp Saloon Reading Series Frist Fridays in Santa Monica. She is also founder of Love on Demand Global, which creates custom-ordered poetry for charity. She is a college counselor and editorial consultant, and is at work on her first collection of poetry, The Moving Parts Dismantled.
Rachel Kann is a poet, dancer, shamanic apprentice, and her latest book is A Prayer on Behalf of the Broken Heart.
Where: Frances Howard Goldwyn – Hollywood Regional Library
Date: Sunday the 17th
Time: 2 pm – 4 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 or https://www.facebook.com/events/348128358955696/?acontext=%7B%22action_history%22%3A[%7B%22surface%22%3A%22dashboard%22%2C%22mechanism%22%3A%22calendar_tab_invitation%22%2C%22extra_data%22%3A%22[]%22%7D]%2C%22source%22%3A2%7D
The Lost Causes at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us to hear Jessica Koosed Etting discuss and sign The Lost Causes. This book is about the kids no one knows—or no one wants to know. Their therapist tells them they’re lost causes, but promises their therapy group will help them heal. Then she offers them an additive in their water that contains a dangerous serum that gives each of them a super power.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 17th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/jessica-koosed-etting-discusses-and-signs-lost-causes
Aileen Leijten at Diesel Bookstore
Join us to hear Aileen Leijten discuss and sign her kids graphic novel, Lint Boy. Lint Boy and Lint Bear live in their cozy dryer home, carefree and happy—until the day Lint Bear is snatched away by a cruel woman with a vendetta against dolls! Can Lint Boy nit other dolls to vanquish the villain and save his brother?
Where: Diesel Bookstore, Brentwood
Date: Sunday the 17th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: http://dieselbookstore.com/event/aileen-leijten-discusses-and-signs-lint-boy
Poetry Anthology at Flintridge Bookstore
Please join us to hear a reading of the poetry anthology, Angle of Reflection, moderated by Jeanette Clough. This anthology covers tremendous territory: nature, ecology, politics, identity, the philosophical relationship to place and landscape, and at appropriate moments, whimsy and levity.
Where: Flintridge Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 17th
Time: 4 pm – 5:30 pm
Address: 1010 Foothill Blvd., La Canada, CA 91011
The Santa Monica Review at Beyond Baroque
Join us for Beyond Words: Beauty and Resistance, which presents The Santa Monica Review with its new issue and selections from its writers.
Produced by Jon Hess. Hosted by Richard Modiano.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Sunday the 17th
Time: 4:30 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
The Equals at Skylight Bookstore
Please join us to hear Daniel Sweren-Becker read from his new book, The Equals. What happens when your own government turns against you? The Equality Team continues to round up and subject The Ones—the 1% of the American population who are genetically engineered in vitro—to a vaccine that will level the playing field. This book joins themes of justice, discrimination and terrorism with actual science to create a frightening version of our near future in this sequel to The Ones.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 17th
Time: 5 pm
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/daniel-sweren-becker-reads-his-new-book-equals
Jan Dennis at Pages Bookstore
Please join us to hear local historian Jan Dennis discuss and sign, A Thread in the Tapestry. This book is a history of the Sepulveda Boulevard section located in Manhattan Beach. If you ever wondered what Manhattan Beach was like and how it has transformed to what it is today, this book and author are the ultimate resource.
RSVP at website due to space considerations.
Where: Pages Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 17th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: http://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/jan-dennis-author-event
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