Beer Tasting & Book Signing with J. Ryan Stradal at Pages Bookstore/Off-site Location
Please join us for a beer tasting and book signing as author J. Ryan Stradal discusses his new novel, The Lager Queen of Minnesota.
Two sisters. One farm. A family is split when their father leaves their shared inheritance entirely to Helen, his younger daughter. Despite baking award-winning pies at the local nursing home, her older sister, Edith, struggles to make a living, and wonders what her life would be like if she had a share of that money. Helen buys a successful brewery with the proceeds, and is rigid as a steel keg, while Edith has a heart as big as the state. In this deeply affecting family saga, resolution can take decades, but it is surprising and moving when it comes.
NOTE: This is a ticketed event, so check website for costs and details.
Where: Los Angeles Ale Works (hosted by Pages Bookstore)
Date: Monday the 5th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 2918 Cerise Ave., Hawthorne, CA 90250
Website: http://www.pagesbookstore.com/event/beer-tasting-and-book-signing-j-ryan-stradal
Poets & Allies for Resistance Reading & Open Mic at My Place Cafe
Join us for Poets & Allies for Resistance with guest host and reader Jessica Gallion and features Bridgette Bianca & Eternal Mind for a social justice-themed extended Open Mic, reading, and book give-away.
This is a monthly poetry event created by Khadija Anderson and focused on social justice issues. Bring 1-2 poems about social justice for the open mic or just come to listen.
Where: My Place Cafe
Date: Monday the 5th
Time: 7 pm – 10 pm
Address: 2057 N. Los Robles Ave. (at Woodbury), Pasadena, CA 91104
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/465883700842258/
Clare Di Liscia & Neliem at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us to hear author Clare Di Liscia discuss and read from her book, Neliem.
At least half of the population of the island of Madera are now known to be dead, killed by an unforgiving and indiscriminate plague. Oriana dreams of escaping her life of ruthless cruelty from the people who now rule over those who remain. Drawing strength from ancient tales of her enemy, she transforms herself from victim to warrior with the help of a mysterious and powerful dagger given to her by a kind and dying boy/ Years later, she is torn between two men, while she must protect herself and save her people.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Monday the 5th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/clare-di-liscia-discusses-and-signs-neliem
Queer Book Club with CB Lee at The Last Bookstore
Led by Lambda finalist CB Lee, the Queer Book club will read and discuss Shaun David Hutchinson’s memoir, Brave Face, which blends his adult perspective with his teenage emails and journal entries to tell the story of his coming-out, depression, and suicidal struggles, offering hope and good humor from what were very dark experiences.
NOTE: All store book clubs and events are ticketed, so check website for costs and details.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Monday the 5th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://www.thelastbookstore/events
Your Author Series: Isabel Quintero at Echo Park Branch Library, LAPL – Kids Event
Join us to welcome author Isabel Quintero, who will present her children’s book, My Papi has a Motorcycle. The author has won the William C. Morris Award for YA Debut Novel, and is a Gold Medal Winner of the California Book Award for Young Adults. She writes poetry and fiction for children, young adults, adults, older adults, and ghosts.
Where: Echo Park Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Tuesday the 6th
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: 1410 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA 90026
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whatson/events/your-author-series-starring-isabel-quintero
Your Author Series: Laura Lacamara at Alma Reeves-Watts Branch Library, LAPL – Kids Event
Join us to welcome children’s author and illustrator Laura Lacamara, who will present her bilinguall book, Dalia’s Wondrous Hair! Her work has been featured in award winning books such as The Runaway Piggy and Mama the Alien. The daughter of an opera singer, she resides in L.A. with her family.
Where: Alma Reeves-Watts Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Tuesday the 6th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: 10205 Compton Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90002
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whatson/events/your-author-series-starring-laura-lacamara
Your Author Series: Larissa Marantz at Washington Baldwin Hills Branch Library, LAPL – Kids Event
Please join us as Your Author Series welcomes children’s author Larissa Marantz, as part of our Summer Author Program and Summer Reading challenge. Help a mischievous mollusk find its way home in her new book, Charlie and the Octopus! The author has written numerous books for Nickelodeon, and worked as a Character Designer for the legendary Rugrats series. She is also a teacher at Laguna College of Art + Design.
Where: Baldwin Hills Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Tuesday the 6th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: 2906 S. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90016
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/your-author-series-starring-larissa-marantz
Robert Crais & A Dangerous Man at Diesel Bookstore
Join us to welcome author Robert Crais, who will read and discuss his new novel, A Dangerous Man, at his publication party.
In the latest installment in the Joe Pike series, the author finds Joe rescuing his bank teller from an abduction attempt when she leaves the bank for her lunch break. Instead of putting the crime to bed with their arrests, the abductors post bail and are then murdered, and Izzy disappears. Pike calls on his friend Elvis Cole to help him learn the truth of a long line of lies, to determine if Izzy is a perpetrator or victim.
Where: Diesel Bookstore, lower outdoor courtyard
Date: Tuesday the 6th
Time: 6:30 pm – 8 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: http://www.deieselbookstore.com/event/tuesday-august-6th-630-pm-publicastion-party-robert-crais-discusses-and-signs-dangerous-man Vroman
Melissa de las Cruz & The Birthday Girl at Book Soup
Join us to hear and meet author Melissa de la Cruz, who will read and discuss her book, The Birthday Girl: A Novel.
Before she became a glamorous fashion designer, Ellie de Florent-Stinson was a trailer park teen about to turn sixteen. But the night of her birthday celebration does not go as planned and descends into a night she’ll never be able to forget.
Now, on the cusp of her fortieth birthday, it appears she has everything she ever wanted. But everything is not quite as perfect as it looks on the outside—Ellie is keeping many secrets. Soon her life begins to crumble.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Tuesday the 6th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/melissa-de-la-cruz-discusses-and-signs-birthday-girl
Jeff Gordinier & Hungry at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us to hear author Jeff Gordinier, in conversation with television writer Marc Weingarten, discuss his book, Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World.
The author happened into a fateful meeting with Danish chef Rene Redzepi, whose restaurant, Norma, has been called the best in the world. A restless perfectionist he was planning to tear it all down and set out for new places, flavors and recipes. This is the story of the subsequent four years of globe-trotting culinary adventure, and is about not only the hunger for food, but for risk, for creative breakthroughs, and for connection.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 6th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Collage and Cry Event at Book Show LA
Join us for our monthly Collage & Cry event, hosted by Rachel Curry. Participants are invited to make collages and share stories about crying in this safe space designed to foster creativity. Each month there is an optional theme and we provide all materials.
NOTE: A $5 donation is suggested. Feel free to bring snacks of drinks to share.
Where: Book Show LA
Date: Tuesday the 6th
Time: 7 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: 5503 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90042
Website: http://bookshowla.com/events/
Tuesday Night Café Project & Open Mic at the Aratani Courtyard, Little Tokyo
Join us to hear the Tuesday Night Café & Open Mic, presented every first and third Tuesday, April to October, in Little Tokyo.
More information TBA!
NOTE: This event is also available as a podcast.
Where: Aratani Courtyard/Union Center for the Arts
Date: Tuesday the 6th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 120 Judge John Aliso St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://.tuesdaynightproject.org/tnc-schedule/2019/8/6/tuesday-night-cafe-august-6-2019
Susan Straight & The Country of Women at Skylight Bookstore
Please join us to hear acclaimed author of eight novels, Susan Straight, in conversation with author and journalist Patt Morrison, discuss her new memoir, In the Country of Women.
In inland Southern California, near the desert and the Mexican border, Susan Straight, a self-described book nerd, and Dwight Sims, an African American basketball player, started dating in high school. After college, they married and drove to Amherst, where Straight met her teacher and mentor James Baldwin, who encouraged her to write. Once back in Riverside, at driveway barbeques and fish fries with the large, close-knit Sims clan, Straight, and eventually her three daughters, heard for decades the stories of Dwayne’s female ancestors,: the women who escaped violence in post-slavery Tennessee; some who escaped murder in Jim Crow Mississippi; and those who fled abusive men. Straight’s mother-n-law, Alberta Sims, is the descendant at the heart of this memoir.
Her family too reflects the hardship and resilience of women pushing onward—from Switzerland, Canada, and the Colorado Rockies to California. She uses the Pakistani word, biraderi, to define a complicated system of kinship and clan—those who become your family. An entire community helped raise her daughters, who carry at least three continents in their blood. They are not about borders, but Straight believes her family is about love and survival. This book is both a valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 6th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Redondo Poets with Feature & Open Mic at Coffee Cartel
Please join the Redondo Poets to welcome our feature, Lola Chase, and participate in the weekly Open Mic. Redondo Poets is recommended by Mike “The Poet” Sonksen, and has been a mainstay of the Los Angeles Poetry scene for 20 years.
Where: Coffee Cartel
Date: Tuesday the 6th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 1820 S. Catalina Ave., Redondo Beach, CA 90277
Website: http://www.facebook.com/RedondoPoets
Soapbox Sessions Open Mic at Maui Sugar Saloon
Soapbox Nation’s adventure began in 2006 when founder, Jason Brain, started an open mic at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Encino, CA. This event for musicians, poets, and comedians began slowly building a word-of-mouth following and really hit its stride in 2008. Now Soapbox is at a different location, but still in the Valley.
Where: Maui Sugar Saloon
Date: Tuesday the 6th
Time: 8 pm – 12 pm
Address: 18389 Ventura Blvd., Tarzana, CA 91356
Website: http://www.facebook.com/SoapboxOpenMic/
Da Poetry Lounge Open Mic at Greenway Court Theatre
About: All you have to do is put your name on the sign-up list. The first half sign-ups occur before the doors open, and sign-ups for the second half do not guarantee entry, so stay in line! Keep in line that each half has its own sign-up list so check details at website or at event. Sorry, you can only perform at one half per night, and 12-15 people are typically called up for each half’s open mic, depending on whether there is a feature that night. There is a time limit of three minutes at the mic to do your poem, as we try to accommodate as many people as possible. So please, arrive early!
Where: The Greenway Court Theater
Date: Tuesday the 6th
Time: 9 pm – 12 pm
Address: 544 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90036
Website: http://dapoetrylounge.com/visiting-dpl/slam/
Isabel Quintero & My Papi Has a Motorcycle at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us to hear author Isabel Quintero discuss her children’s book, My Papi Has a Motorcycle..
The author writes several types of books, for children, teens, and adults in multiple genres, and this newest children’s book is a fun story about a girl and her father.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 7th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/isabel-quintero-presents-and-signs-my-papi-has-motorcycle
Your Author Series Starring: Rene Colato at Chatsworth Branch Library, LAPL – Kids Event
Please join us in welcoming children’s author Rene Colato Lainez as he presents his acclaimed bilingual book, My Shoes and I; Crossing Three Borders. A lifelong writer, his work has been recognized by Kirkus Reviews, The International Latino Book Awards, The Latinidad list, and other publications.
Where: Chatsworth Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Wednesday the 7th
Time: 3 pm – 4 pm
Address: 21052 Devonshire St., Chatsworth, CA 91311
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/your-author-series-starring-rene-colato
Ryan Stradal &The Lager Queen of Minnesota at Chevalier’s Bookstore
Please join us to welcome author J. Ryan Stradal, in conversation with Darryl Holter, as he discusses his novel, The Lager Queen of Minnesota a novel of family, Midwestern values, hard work, fate, and the secrets of making a world-class beer.
Two sisters. One farm. A family is split when their father leaves their shared inheritance entirely to Helen, his younger daughter. Despite baking award-winning pies at the local nursing home, her older sister, Edith, struggles to make a living, and wonders what her life would be like if she had a share of that money. Helen buys a successful brewery with the proceeds, and is rigid as a steel keg, while Edith has a heart as big as the state. In this deeply affecting family saga, resolution can take decades, but it is surprising and moving when it comes.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 7th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd.., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: http://www.chevaliersbooks.com/j-ryan-stradal
October BLU & #InMySpaceofHonesty & Other Hashtags at Book Soup
Join us to hear and meet author October Blu, who will read and discuss her book #InMySpaceofHonesty & Other Hashtags.
October Blu’s first experience with using words to color the greys and glooms of her life were discovered in her early childhood. She writes honestly about her experiences as a black woman, all the while celebrating triumph over adversity Every poem in this collection pays homage to everyone who thought no one else would understand. You don’t have to wear your weary just because it was given to you.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Wednesday the 7th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/october-blu-discusses-and-signs-inmyspaceofhonesty-other-hashtags
Robert Crais & A Dangerous Man at Vroman’s Bookstore
Join us to hear author Robert Crais present the latest book in his Joe Pike series, A Dangerous Man.
In the latest installment in the Joe Pike series, the author finds Joe rescuing his bank teller from an abduction attempt when she leaves the bank for her lunch break. Instead of putting the crime to bed with their arrests, the abductors post bail and are then murdered, and Izzy disappears. Pike calls on his friend Elvis Cole to help him learn the truth of a long line of lies, to determine if Izzy is a perpetrator or victim.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 7th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/robert-crais-discusses-and-signs-dangerous-man
In Conversation: Terry Allen & Jo Harvey Allen at the Hammer Museum
Join us to hear a conversation between Terry Allen & Jo Harvey Allen, interspersed with readings and music excerpts from Terry’s music recordings, radio shows, and theatre works. Jo Harvey is a writer, artist, and actress best known for her work in film and for her one-woman plays. Event is moderated by Hammer curator Aram Moshayedi.
Where: Hammer Museum
Date: Wednesday the 7th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Website: https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2019/08/terry-allen-jo-harvey-allen/
Chavisa Woods & 100 Times: A Memoir of Sexism at Skylight Bookstore
Join us to hear author Chavisa Woods, in conversation with author Michelle Tea, discuss her new book, 100 Times: A Memoir of Sexism.
Lambda nominated and Shirley Jackson Award winning author Woods presents 100 personal stories of sexism, harassment, discrimination and assault, and lays a clear and unflinching presentation that builds in intensity as the number of times grows. This book demonstrates how thoroughly men feel entitled to women’s spaces and bodies, and challenges the common, damaging belief that sexism and misogyny are no longer problems in our society.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 7th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Anansi Writers Workshop at the World Stage
The Anansi Writers Workshop was founded in 1990 by Kamau Daáood, Akilah Oliver, Nafis Nabawi and Anthony Lyons. In 1993, Michael Datcher initiated the development of a three-part format for the workshop. Their tradition of a community workshop began in the late 1960s at the Watts Writers’ Workshop, where World Stage co-founder Kamau Daáood started his writing career. The Anansi Writers Workshop is coordinated by V. Kali and Conney Williams.
Tonight’s feature: Cynthia Alessandra Briano.
Where: Anansi Writers Workshop
Date: Wednesday the 7th
Time: 7:30 pm– 10 pm
Address: 4321 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: http://www.theworldstage.org or http://www.facebook.com/theworldstage/
Patty Seyburn at the Ugly Mug Café
Join us as Two Idiots Peddling Poetry present an evening of poetry, featuring: Patty Seyburn. .
Patty Seyburn has published three volumes of poetry, and her third book, Hilarity, won the Green Rose Prize given by New Issues Press (Western Michigan University, 2009). Her two previous books of poems are Mechanical Cluster (2002) and Diasporadic (1998). She is an Associate Professor at CSU Long Beach and co-editor of POOL: A Journal of Poetry.
She is a poet of memory and family legacy, and her work is weighted by history, especially the history of the Jews. But they are also stories about the richness of life—its sensory pleasures and relentless comedy.
NOTE: $3 cover fee, cash only.
Where: The Ugly Mug Café
Date: Wednesday the 7th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 261 N. Glassell St., Orange, CA 92866
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2291617684424501/
Creatin’ After Hours Writing Night Cap Workshop at the World Stage
Calling all night owl creatives!
We are back with another Creatin’ After Hours session created by Jessica Gallion aka YELLAWOMAN.
This month we are in for a treat. Eternal Mind is taking over and is requesting us to LISTEN DIFFERENT
How do you listen?
Do you listen to imitate what you like?
Have you found your writing sounding like your favorite artist or writer?
Step into a portal that allows you to come face to face with the words in your spirit. Journey with us, as we uncover and rediscover self by opening our ears to a new voice, a new
and authentic sound.
Are you ready?
Join us!
Where: The World Stage
Date: Wednesday the 7th
Time: 11 pm– 1 am
Address: 4321 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: http://www.theworldstage.org or http://www.facebook.com/events/1247564335413729/
Your Author Series: Isabel Quintero at Wilshire Branch Library, LAPL – Kids Event
Please join us to welcome writer and author Isabel Quintero to present her children’s books, Gabi, a Girl in Pieces and, My Papi Has a Motorcycle.
Isabel has won the William C. Morris Award for YA Debut Novel, and is a Gold Medal Winner of the California Book Award for Young Adults. She writes poetry and fiction for children, young adults, older adults, and ghosts.
Where: Wilshire Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Thursday the 8th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: 149 N> St. Andrews Place, Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/clone-your-author-series-starring-isabel-quintero-0
Platica: Q Youth Foundation’s Eastside Queer Stories Festival at Plaza de Cultura y Artes
Plaza de Cultura y Artes hosts Q Youth Foundation’s Eastside Queer Stories Festival, and presents readings of emerging LGBTQIA+Latinx writers from Los Angeles. Ana Bernal is our moderator.
Where: Plaza de Cultura de Artes
Date: Thursday the 8th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 6145 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90042
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/416625202419644/?active_tab=about
Chris Jaymes & Sons of Chaos at Book Soup
Join us to hear and meet author Chris Jaymes present and sign Sons of Chaos.
This epic graphic novel of Greek people fighting for their independence brings into focus a widely unknown portion of world history for modern readers. the son of a Greek leader, Marcos Botsaris, was taken prisoner as a child and raised within the dungeons of an Ottoman Pasha. Ten years later, it’s 1821 and he heads back to Greece intent on leading his people in revolution.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Thursday the 8th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/chris-jaymes-discusses-and-signs-sons-chaos
SHOUT! Open Mic at Half-Off Bookstore
Please join us for the August edition of SHOUT! Open Mic Poetry Night, offered the 2nd Thursday of each month.
Bring your poems, your music, your comedy, your magic, your stories, your voices. Bring your ears and hearts. Bring everyone. Sign-ups start at 6:30 pm!
Where: Half-Off Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 8th
Time: 7 pm – 10 pm
Address: 141 W. Wilshire Ave., Suite A., Fullerton, CA 92832
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/2275604802723888
Janeane Bernstein & Get the Funk Out at Vroman’s Bookstore
Please join us to welcome Dr. Janeane Bernstein to present and sign her book, Get the Funk Out: %^&* Happens, What to Do Next!
What if the worst thing that ever happened to you turned out to be the best thing that ever happened? When you belly flop into another of life’s funks, learn what to do next.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 8th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Poets Jazz House Open Mic at Irie Vibes Art Space
About: A Spoken Word and Music Lounge where spilling your heart is art and searching your soul is mandatory to get in the door. They are a beatnik Tea House where there’s snapping instead of clapping. The atmosphere is lax but it Sssizzles. They invite you to come touch, be touched, hear the answer and heed the call. They’re just a cozy little house where everyone feels at home.
Where: Irie Vibes Art Space
When: Thursday the 8th
Time: 7pm – 10pm
Address: 6563 Normandie Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90044
Website: Poets Jazz House
Your Author Series: Meg Medina at Central Library, LAPL – Kids & Teens Event
Please join us to welcome Newberry and Pura Belpre award-winning author Meg Medina to present and discuss her books, Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass and Merci Suarez Changes Gears!
Meg is one of CNN’s 10 Visionary Women in America, among many other honors. In her spare time she supports community projects that support marginalized identities and literacy.
Where: Mark Taper Auditorium, Central Library, LAPL
Date: Friday the 9th
Time: 2pm – 4 pm
Address: 630 W. 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/your-author-series-starring-meg-medina
Your Author Series: Kevin Lewis at Hollywood Regional Library, LAPL – Kids Event
Please join us to welcome children’s author Kevin Lewis to present and discuss his picture books, Chugga-Chugga-Choo-Choo and My Truck is Stuck!
A contributor to the acclaimed Captain Underpants series, Kevin has also worked on The Spiderwork Chronicles, Franny K. Stein, and Rainbow Boys.
Where: Frances Howard Goldwyn-Hollywood Regional Library, LAPL
Date: Friday the 9th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: 1623 Ivar Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90028
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/your-author-series-starring-kevin-lewis
Poems from the Attic Release Party & Poetry Reading at Epiphany Space
Please join poet and author Morgan Nikola-Wren to celebrate the release of her collection of poems, Poems from the Attic.
This book is a compilation of “homeless poems” that were cut from various projects and put into a book with accompanying mixed media art. The author has published three books of poetry and her debut book, Magic with Skin On, received a Goodreads Choice nomination for Best Poetry Book of 2017.
NOTE: Check Eventbrite site re availability.
Where: Epiphany Space
Date: Friday the 9th
Time: 7 pm – 10 pm
Address: 1763 N. Gower St., Los Angeles, CA 90028
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/460268281389136/ or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poems-from-the-attic-release-party-poetry-reading
Scott Hylbert & Task List at Book Soup
Join us to hear author Scott Hylbert discuss and sign his novel, Task List.
Elliott is a struggling musician who is trying to piece together enough cash every month to keep his dream of performing alive while also paying his rent. That’s when he discovers the new app TASK LIST. AS a service provider he sets his own hours, his funds are delivered in bitcoins nad the rates continue to grow…but so does his suspicion over the types of tasks he is asked to complete. This is a gig economy thriller that takes a look at the on-demand service industry, and its shady possibilities/
Where: Book Soup
Date: Friday the 9th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/scott-hylbert-discusses-and-signs-task-lyst
Brittany Cavallaro & Emily Henry & Hello Girls at Vroman’s Bookstore – YA Event
Join us to hear authors Brittany Cavallaro & Emily Henry present and sign their new novel, Hello Girls.
The tale of Thelma and Louise is remade in this powerful, darkly funny teen novel from acclaimed authors Cavallaro and Henry. Two teenage girls who have had enough of the controlling men in their lives take their rage on the road to make a new life for themselves.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Friday the 9th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/brittany-cavallaro-emily-henry-discuss-and-sign-hello-girls
HIV Writers Workshop at HIV Writers Workshop
The HIV Writers Workshop is announcing openings for new members. The 14-week workshop starts August 7th near WeHo, and is FREE! This is NOT a drop-in event, so send an email for info to their site: hivwritersworkshop.org.
Where: HIV Writers Workshop
Date: Friday the 9th
Time: 7 pm – 10 pm
Address: San Vicente Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/1238232889685667/?event_time_id1238242049684751
Made in L.A. Writers: The Elusive Dream at Stories Books & Cafe
Please join us to hear the Made in L.A. indie author co-op contributors read from their annual fiction anthology series” Made in L.A., Vol. 2: Chasing the Elusive Dream.
These L.A.-based writers will talk about sharing stories that connect with and inspire people in their communities, and invite you to view this urban landscape through a different lens:
Sara Chisolm enjoys writing speculative fiction based in urban settings.
Jude-Marie Green is a writer of genre (science fiction & fantasy, plus horror) fiction. She has co-edited Abyss & Apex Online and 10Flash Quarterly.
Axel Milens is working on a collection of short stories about the brave and sometimes tragic souls who survive, love, and die under the Southern California sun.
Allison Rose is a novelist and screenwriter whose focus centers on the struggles of complex female characters. Tick is the first in her YA science fiction series, and tackles themes of mental illness, artistry, and violence. Vice is part two of the series.
Cody Sisco is the author of the Resonant Earth series, which includes two novels thus far, Broken Mirror and Tortured Echoes, and a short story prequel, Believe and Live. The third in the series, Altered Bodies, is forthcoming. His startup, BookSwell, makes the book scene in L.A. easier to navigate.
Gregory Thompson, a Pushcart Prize nominee, writes fiction, non-fiction, plays and memoir. His work has been widely published, and also appears in the Made in L.A. anthology and the Writers Resist anthology 2018.
Where: Stories Books & Café LA
Date: Friday the 9th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 1716 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
Website: http://www.storiesla.com/?q=h.calevents
East Meets West: Night of Poetic Language Festival at Beyond Baroque
Please join us for a night of poetry when East Meets West. Award-winning poets and professors Do Hyun Ahn & Dukkyu Park visit from Korea to read alongside legendary Los Angeles area poets:
F. Douglas Brown, Don Kingfisher Campbell, Tresha Faye Haefner, Tanya Ko Hong, Armine Iknodossian, Jun C. Kim, Hack Hee Kang, Cassandra Lane, Sehba Sarwar, Mike Sonksen, and Linda Ravenswood.
Hosted by Tanya Ko Hong.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Friday the 9th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
Helter Skelter Event at Book Show LA
It is the anniversary of one of Los Angeles’ darkest moments in history: the murder spree of the Manson Family. Drawing from the vast array of true crime accounts published about this dark period, Daniel Arteaga will present a factual discussion based on events chronicled in books published on the subjects.
Where: Book Show LA
Date: Friday the 9th
Time: 8 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: 5503 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90042
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/1234407550074694/?active_tab=about
Women Who Submit Workshop at Exposition Park Regional Library, LAPL
The next public session of Women Who Submit is a two-hour, ands-on workshop on submitting to tier-one publications, and is facilitated by fiction writer and author of The Amado Women, Desiree Zamorano. Participants may work through different parts of the submissions process to prepare for our 5th Annual Submission Blitz on September 14th.
Where: Exposition Park Regional Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 10th
Time: 10 am – 12 pm
Address: 3900 S. Western Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90062
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/378000919525602/
Fatally Haunted: A Sisters in Crime Anthology at Gatsby’s Bookstore
In a city of ten million people, the haunted could be the man waiting to cross the street, or the memory that keeps you awake at night. Fatally Haunted is a Sisters in Crime/Los Angeles anthology, and it includes original stories by: Julia G. Beers, Julia Bricklin, Roger Cannon, Tony Chiarchiaro, Lisa Ciarfella, Cyndra Gernet, B.J. Graf, Mark Hague, A.P. Jamison, Michael Kelly, Alison McMahan, Peter Sexton, Gobind Tanaka, and Jennifer Younger.
Where: Gatsby’s Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 10th
Time: 1 pm
Address: 5535 E. Spring St., Long Beach, CA 90808
Website: http://gatsbybooks.com/event#/fatally-haunted-a-sisters-in-crime-anthology-sat-aug-10th-1pm
Towards a Radical Arts Activism Workshop at LACE (Day 1 of 2)
Raina Leon will lead the workshop: Every Struggle is an Ecological Struggle: Towards a Radical Arts Activism. Participants are welcome to attend one or both sessions, and RSVPs are encouraged.
How do we “read the world” and learn to write alongside it? In this free workshop, artists and writers are invited to radically imagine a new arts activism.
Where: Exposition Park Regional Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 10th
Time: 1 pm – 3 pm
Address: 6522 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028
Website: http://www.welcometolace.org/events/
Jeff Henigson & Warhead at Vroman’s Bookstore – YA Event
Please join us to hear author Jeff Henigson present his book, Warhead: the True Story of One Teen Who Almost Saved the World.
It is 1986, and Jeff is an average teenager, a fifteen year-old who learns he has brain cancer and is likely terminal. Well, that puts a damper on his summer plans, doesn’t it? Jeff’s family rallies around him, and as his life swings from ordinary to incredible, he takes on the big questions. His story is dark, but also funny.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 10th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Open Mic at Santa Catalina Library, Pasadena
Please join us for Saturday Afternoon Poetry at the Santa Catalina Library in Pasadena. for a Deep Critique Poetry Workshop with G.T Foster.
Events curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Santa Catalina Library, Pasadena
Date: Saturday the 10th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 999 E. Washington Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91104
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
Rob Zabracky & Strange Cures at Book Soup
Join us to welcome author Rob Zabracky to discuss and sign his new book, Strange Cures.
This is a turbulent, against-all-odds memoir of self-discovery, success, failure, and reinvention, told by one of L.A.’s most interesting natives. He explores a young life filled with both physical miracles and subversive role models, and takes readers on a roller coaster ride through the nascent days of Silver Lake’s music and art scene.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Saturday the 10th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 8818 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/rob-zabrecky-discusses-and-signs-strange-cures
Susan Straight Release Party & The Country of Women at Riverside Art Museum
Please join us to hear acclaimed author of eight novels, Susan Straight, discuss her new memoir, In the Country of Women.
In inland Southern California, near the desert and the Mexican border, Susan Straight, a self-described book nerd, and Dwight Sims, an African American basketball player, started dating in high school. After college, they married and drove to Amherst, where Straight met her teacher and mentor James Baldwin, who encouraged her to write. Once back in Riverside, at driveway barbeques and fish fries with the large, close-knit Sims clan, Straight, and eventually her three daughters, heard for decades the stories of Dwayne’s female ancestors,: the women who escaped violence in post-slavery Tennessee; some who escaped murder in Jim Crow Mississippi; and those who fled abusive men. Straight’s mother-n-law, Alberta Sims, is the descendant at the heart of this memoir.
Her family too reflects the hardship and resilience of women pushing onward—from Switzerland, Canada, and the Colorado Rockies to California. She uses the Pakistani word, biraderi, to define a complicated system of kinship and clan—those who become your family. An entire community helped raise her daughters, who carry at least three continents in their blood. They are not about borders, but Straight believes her family is about love and survival. This book is both a valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP for tickets to this free event.
Where: Riverside Art Museum
Date: Saturday the 10th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 3426 Mission Inn Ave., Riverside, CA 92501
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/389641108430762/
Secrets of Publishing Panel with Susan Shapiro at The Last Bookstore
Join us to hear this exciting panel spill the secrets of publishing, with luminaries in the field:
Editors Maer Roshan (Los Angeles Magazine), Lisa Teasley (LA Review of Books), Angel Rodriguez (L.A. Times), agent B.J. Robbins, author Allen Salkin (The Method to the Madness) & Alison Singh Gee (Where the Peacock Sings), and moderator & Byline Bible author Susan Shapiro.
NOTE: All store book clubs and events are ticketed, so check website for costs and details.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 10th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://www.thelastbookstore/events
Towards a Radical Arts Activism Workshop at LACE (Day 2 of 2)
Raina Leon will lead the workshop: Every Struggle is an Ecological Struggle: Towards a Radical Arts Activism. Participants are welcome to attend one or both sessions, and RSVPs are encouraged.
How do we “read the world” and learn to write alongside it? In this free workshop, artists and writers are invited to radically imagine a new arts activism.
Where: Exposition Park Regional Library, LAPL
Date: Sunday the 11th
Time: 1 pm – 3 pm
Address: 6522 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028
Website: http://www.welcometolace.org/events/
Soapbox Poets Open Reading at Beyond Baroque
This is your home Bring your words. The mic is yours. Sign-ups begin at 1:45 pm. and there is a five minute limit per poet/performer. Hosted by: Jessica Wilson Cardenas.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Sunday the 11th
Time: 2 pm – 4pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
Well Read Black Girl Book Club Meet-Up & The Travelers at Book Soup
Join our Well Read Black Girl Book Club meeting to discuss The Travelers: A Novel, by Regina Porter.
In this story of two interconnected families, one white and one black, American history comes vividly to life through the period of the 1950s through Obama’s first year in the presidency. This is an audacious debut and a gorgeous saga, and the author paints both an intimate family portrait and a sweeping exploration of what it means to be an American today.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Sunday the 11th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/well-read-black-girl-book-club-meeting-0
Roar Shack Reading: Gathering Sky at 826LA & the Time Travel Mart
Join us for the next Roar Shack: Gathering Sky reading series, hosted by David Rocklin, and featuring:
Angela Stubbs is a poet examining the body and states of being while celebrating the carnal with sweet, dark humor.
Brendan Constantine is a poet and educator, and the author of four books of poetry, most recently Dementia, My Darling (Red Hen Press, 2016).
Christine Hoag is an author, freelance editor and speaker and the author of two novels, Skin of Tattoos and Girl on the Brink.
Lynne Thompson is the author of Start with a Small Guitar (2003), Beg No Pardon (2007), and most recently, Fretwork (2019).
Ciji McBride is the July Live Write winner.
Where: 826LA & Time Travel Mart
Date: Sunday the 11th
Time: 4 pm – 5:30 pm
Address: 1714 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90069
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/492680344839241/
Second Sunday Poetry Reading & Open Mic at The Studio Theatre
Join host Alex M. Frankel for the Second Sunday Poetry Reading, an Open Mic poetry show that this month features Mila Cuda.
Milos Cuda is a published author, coach, and performer in the realms of all things poetry. She was Youth Poet Laureate of Los Angeles in 2017, and was recently appointed 2018 West coast Youth Poet Laureate. She writes politically charged poems, stemming from her sexual identity as gay, which is further explored through her poetry book Dishwater Blonde. She also has been a member and coach with Get Lit Players.
Where: The Studio Theatre at St. Denis Building
Date: Sunday the 11th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 3433 Cahuenga Blvd. West, Los Angeles, CA 90068 (near Universal Studios)
Website: http://www.secondsundaypoetry.com
Write con Nosotros at Café con Libros Press
Join us to start writing the book you’ve been putting off… Now is the time! Come write in community, come write con nosotros! La Luchas con Letras begins!
This event will be held weekly, at the same time and place!
Where: Café con Libros Press
Date: Sunday the 11th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 280 2nd St., Pomona, CA 91766
Website: http://www.facebook.com.events/2362106677146514//event_time_id=2395081800515668
Voice in the Well: Melville the Mariner Reading at Beyond Baroque
Join us to celebrate Herman Melville’s 200th birthday! Public Works Improvisational Theatre presents an evening of lively variety programming featuring a tribute to Venetian Ray Bradbury’s adaptation of Melville’s classic work, Moby Dick.
Event hosted by Eric Vollmer.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Sunday the 11th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
We’re All Gonna Die Dystopian Book Club at the Last Bookstore
Join us for our We’re All Gonna Die Dystopian Book Club, hosted by New York Times bestselling author Peter Clines.
This month we are reading Chuck Wendig’s massive and brand new book, Wanderers. A near miss by a comet has infected vast swathes of humanity with a sleepwalking sickness. As they all somnambulate in the same direction, everyone else struggles to keep them alive, find a cure, and keep what’s left of us from falling apart.
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed, so check website for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 11th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
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