Los Angeles Literature Events 8/10/20 – 8/16/20
Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Julian E. Zelizer & Burning Down the House at Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Julian E. Zelizer, in conversation with David Cross, to discuss his new non-fiction book, Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party.
When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, President Obama observed that Trump “is not an outlier; he is a culmination, a logical conclusion of the rhetoric and tactics of the Republican Party.” In this book the author pinpoints the moment when our country was set on a path to bitterly partisan and ruthless politics: an era ignited by Newt Gingrich and his allies in 1989. This is the story of how they created a new normal in Washington D.C.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Monday the 10th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Vroman’s Live: Union Book Talk with Christopher Haugh & Jordan Blashek – Crowdcast Online Event
Authors Christopher Haugh & Jordan Blashek will discuss their book, Union, in a Crowdcast online event moderated by Tony Woods.
Union: A Democrat, a Republican, and a Search for Common Ground addresses the unlikely friendship formed in the year before Trump was elected president, between a Republican Marine, Jordan Blashek, and a Democrat and son of a single mother, Chris Haugh. Their friendship blossomed not in spite of, but because of, their political differences, so they decided to hit the road in search of reasons to strengthen their bond in an era of strife and partisanship. This is a three-year adventure story, across 44 states, to see where America stands today.
Where: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online event (see site)
Date: Monday the 10th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online event
Adult Book Club & Little Comfort via Moorpark City Library – Online Event
The online Moorpark Library Book Club for Adults will read a variety of books and genres, and is open to new participants. To reserve a book club book and reserve a pick-up time call the library at 805-517-6370, and to register see site for details.
This meeting’s book selection is Little Comfort, by Edwin Hill.
Where: Moorpark Public Library, LAPL – Online (see site link)
Date: Monday the 10th
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/574290023244709
Christina Hammonds Reed & The Black Kids– Skylight Books’ Crowdcast Online YA Event
Author Christina Hammonds Reed, in conversation with author Brandy Colbert, will read and discus her YA novel, The Black Kids.
Ashley Bennett and her friends are living the charmed life at the end of senior year, but everything changes one afternoon when four LAPD officers are acquitted after beating a black man, Rodney King, half to death. Suddenly Ashley’s not just one of the girls, she’s one of the black kids. With her world, and Los Angeles, splintering around her, she is left with the question: who is us? And who is them?
Where: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online YA event (RSVP at site)
Date: Monday the 10th
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event
Monday Night Fiction Workshop at Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
The free Monday Night Fiction Workshop led by Jessica Dolby focuses on generating creativity and writing fiction, including narrative technique, language, characterization, plot, POV, and the realization of an idea. Bring copies of 2-3 pages of fiction for critique and discussion.
Where: Beyond Baroque online (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Monday the 10th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.com/calendar or https://www.facebook.com/events/534987650407119/
Ficcion en Espanol Book Club at The Last Bookstore Online
The Ficcion en Espanol Book Club, led by Dan Lopez, focuses on reading fiction in Spanish. This meeting’s participants will read and discuss Gonzalo Torne’s book, El Corazon de la fiesta. In this story, Clara might be out of her depth when the friends’ and neighbors; problems she’d hoped to solve run deeper and wider than she’d thought.
NOTE; All bookstore events are ticketed and require book purchase, so see site for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Zoom online (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Monday the 10th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://lastbookstorela.com/#events or https://www.facebook.com/event3528208053876303
Expressions LA Virtual Poetry Readings & Open Mic via Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Expressions LA Poetry reading Series has gone virtual via Zoom! Please join us for featured poetry readings and an Open Mic by emailing Emily at eaaronson@lapl.org for instructions on how to join the program.
Where: Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event (RSVP and details at site)
Date: Tuesday the 11th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-night
Vroman’s Live: Daven McQueen & The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones – Crowdcast Online YA Event
Author Daven Mc Queen will present and discuss her book, The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones, in a Crowdcast online event.
In the summer of 1955, Ethan Harper, a biracial kid raised mostly by his white father, is sent to spend the summer with his aunt and uncle in small-town Alabama. His blackness is front and center, and no one’s shy about making it known he’s not welcome here. Enter Juniper Jones, the town’s resident oddball and free spirit. She’s everything the townspeople aren’t: open, kind, and accepting. They set out together to find their place in a town that’s bent on rejecting them.
Where: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 11th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online event
DSTL Arts: New Conchas y Café Zine Bilingual Writing Workshops – Online Events
Please join DSTL Arts and founder Luis Antonio Pichardo online at Google classroom for new Conchas y Café Zine bilingual community writing workshops! Lessons in poetry and writing for all are offered on Google Classroom (Class Code d3nvygy) every Tuesday at 6:30 pm, as DSTL Arts participants begin Volume 6 (year six) of these bilingual zine writing workshops!
NOTE: Use class code: d3nvygy (at Google Classroom)
Where: DSTL Arts online event (Google classroom)
Date: Tuesday the 11th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: DSTL Arts online event (Google classroom)
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/
Bradley Garrett & Bunker at Skylight Books’ Crowdcast Online YA Event
Author Bradley Garrett, in conversation with author Geoff Manaugh, will read and discuss his new book, Bunker: Building for the End Times.
This is a thought-provoking, chilling, and eerily-prescient look at “prepper” communities around the world that are building bunkers against a possible apocalypse.
Where: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online YA event (RSVP at site)
Date: Tuesday the 11th
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event
Silver Lake Book Club & Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead via Silver Lake Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Please join our Book Club at the Silver Lake Branch Library’s Zoom site as we discuss Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk. Books are available for download with your library card. To receive an invitation, please contact silver@lapl.org
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Library Zoom online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 11th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Library Zoom online event
Website: http://lapl.org/whats-on/silver-lake-book-club
Mystery Book Club & Murder in Chianti at Pages Bookstore Online
Join the Pages Mystery Book Club every second Tuesday of the month. This month’s selection is Murder in Chianti, by Camilla Trinchieri.
This book club meeting will be facilitated by Bobby McCue.
NOTE: Details and book purchase information available at website.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online Event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 11th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online Live Event
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/mystery-book-club-virtual-meeting-1
BOTM Book Club & The Vanishing Half at Bel Canto Bookstore Online
Join the free Bel Canto BOTM Book Club every second Tuesday of the month. This month’s selection is The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett.
This book from the New York Times bestselling author of The Mothers is a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.
NOTE: Details and book purchase information available at website.
Where: Bel Canto Bookstore, Long Beach – Online Event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 11th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online Live Event
Website: https://belcantobooks.net/book-clubs
Afro-Futurism Book Club at The Last Bookstore Online
The Afro-Futurism Book Club, led by Tyree Boyd-Pates, focuses on reading new fiction in a vast forward-looking movement with solid roots in the past. This meeting’s participants will read and discuss Colson Whitehead’s book, Zone One: A Novel. This is an apocalyptic story with zombies and a virus.
NOTE; All bookstore events are ticketed and require book purchase, so see site for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Zoom online (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Tuesday the 11th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Adult Book Group & The Weight of a Piano via Once Upon a Time Bookstore Online
The Adult Book Group meets on the second Tuesday of each month, has been going strong for over 40 years, and loves to see new faces! Tonight we will discuss author Chris Candor’s book, The Weight of a Piano, and you may email to request Zoom meeting invite and for ways to buy or access this book.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Zoom online (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Tuesday the 11th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/adult-book-group-weight-piano-chris-candor
Book Discussion Group via Beverly Hills Public Library – Online Event
While the library is closed, Friends of the Library and Literary affairs are offering virtual discussion meetings through the video-conferencing platform Zoom. For more information on how you can participate, call Library Reference (310) 288-2244.
The book selected for discussion today is The Island of Sea Women, by Lisa See.
Where: Beverly Hills Public Library – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 12th
Time: 10:15 am – 12:15 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/2510329302591/
Virtual Storytime with Miss Ginger via City of Azusa Online Kids Event
Virtual Storytime with Miss Ginger will continue live online every Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday. Simply check back at the time listed on Instagram and click on the City of Azusa icon located on the upper left hand corner to watch.
Where: City of Azusa – Online Event (see site for link)
Date: Wednesday the 12th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/299306587858353
Middle Grade Book Club & War Stories at Pages Bookstore Online – YA Event
Join the Pages Middle Grade Book Club every month. This month’s selection is War Stories, by Gordon Korman.
This month we have two dates with books selected by the members at our July meeting.
NOTE: Details and book purchase information available at website.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online Event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 12th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online Live Event
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/middle-grade-book-club-virtual-meeting-2
Vromans Live: Akwaeke Emezi & The Death of Vivek Oji – Crowdcast Online Event
Author Akwaeke Emezi will present and discuss her novel, The Death of Vivek Oji, in a Crowdcast online event.
This book is a novel of family and friendship that challenges expectations—a dramatic story of loss and transcendence that will move every reader. One afternoon, in a town in Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to find her son’s body wrapped in a colorful fabric, at her feet. Thus begins the heart wrenching story of one family’s struggle to understand a child whose spirit is both gentle and mysterious, whose crisis ends in a heart stopping act of violence in a moment of exhilarating freedom.
Where: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 12th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online event
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/vromans-live-akwaeke-emezi-discusses-death-vivek-oji
Stop the World: Pandemic Anthology & Contributors and Editors via Zoom Online Event
In Stop the World: Snapshots from a Pandemic, 40 writers give their unique take on this strange time in our world. Edited by Lise McClendon, with co-editors Taffy Cannon, Kate Flora, and Gary Phillips, and published by Thalia Press Authors Co-Op, with all profits going to charity.
Writers from around the world tell us in fiction, essays and poetry what it means to live through the global pandemic of 2020, offering a slice of our lives.
Where: Zoom Online Event (see site for link)
Date: Wednesday the 12th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/344514220276712
Catherine Lacy, with Jonathan Lacy & Pew – Skylight Books’ Crowdcast Online Event
Author Catherine Lacy, in conversation with author Jonathan Lethem, will read and discuss her novel, Pew.
In a small unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives for a service to find a figure asleep on a pew. The person is genderless and racially ambiguous and refuses to speak. One family takes the unknown, strange visitor in and nicknames them Pew. As time passes the community’s generosity erodes, and the story reaches a shattering and unsettling climax. In her third novel, the author writes a foreboding and provocative fable about the world today: its contradictions, its flimsy morality, and the limits of judging others based on their appearance.
Where: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Wednesday the 12th
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event
Henry Gamboa, Jr. Features in Rex Weiner’s conversation series, “I Read your Book and …” – Online Event
Join Beyond Baroque-hosted free events online to hear groundbreaking artist and poet, Henry Gamboa, Jr. in conversation with Rex Weiner in his author discussion series “I Read Your Book and…”. They will discuss his work and his latest book of poetry, Flower of the Dead.
In partnership with Bookshop.org, with all books on sale now via Beyond Baroque’s Bookshop page. Click button at site for free tickets and information to the third interview with Henry Gamboa, Jr.
Where: Beyond Baroque – Online live-stream event on Zoom
Date: Wednesday the 12th
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site and Eventbrite link)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/337305817284554 or https://www.beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop with Liz Gonzalez via Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
Join Beyond Baroque’s longest running free poetry workshop via Zoom online as we welcome summer facilitator Liz Gonzalez, author of the collection Dancing in the Santa Ana Winds: Poems y Cuentos New and Selected (2018). An instructive video is offered at the site for sharing documents via Zoom.
NOTE: See site for further details.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 12th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Virtual Open Mic with Two Idiots Peddling Poetry via Ugly Mug – Zoom Online
Join us for a Virtual Open Mic in support of the Black Lives Matter Movement, and consider donating to the organizations listed at site.
Sign up to read via Google Sheets at site given and join the event via Zoom link or phone app.
NOTE: See site for further details.
Where: Zoom online event
Date: Wednesday the 12th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1960598210741905/
Family Fun Zoom Meeting – Kids Event
Family Fun Zone is a virtual event full of kid-friendly activities and offering storytime, crafts, and more for children ages 0-5.
NOTE: Registration is FREE ticket for this event.
Where: Westside Infant Family Network (WIN)
Date: Thursday the 13th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2818076744896424/
Black Lives Matter Discussion Series: Me and White Supremacy Conversation via LAPL – Online Event
This is the third in a Black Lives Matter Social Justice Series, and the conversation will center on the book Me and White Supremacy, by Layla Saad.
Check the site for Social Justice Reading list to check out each book in the series. You also may contact the Palms-Rancho Park Library ar prnch@lapl.org.
Where: Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL – Online event
Date: Thursday the 13th
Time: 3:30 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/black-lives-matter-discussion-series
Shruti Swamy & A House Is a Body at Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Shruti Swamy, in conversation with Rachel Khong, to discuss her new collection, A House Is a Body: Stories.
Dreams collide with reality, modernity with antiquity, and myth with identity in the twelve arresting stories in this book.. Set in the United States and India, they reveal small but intense moments of beauty, pain, and power that contain the world.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Thursday the 13th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://booksoup.com/event/shruti-swamy-conversation-rachel-khong-discusses-house-body-stories
Dormant Rose Poetry Writing Workshop via North Hollywood Regional Library, LAPL – Online Event
Teens, adults and seniors are invited to study a different poet each month via Zoom, and write poetry based on the poet’s style. This program is held on the second Thursday of every month.
New participants are always welcome. To RSVP and receive the access link, please email nohlwd@lapl.org at least one day before the meeting.
Where: North Hollywood Amelia Earhart Regional Library, LAPL – Zoom online event
Date: Thursday the 13th
Time: 6:15 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/dormant-rose-poetry-writing-workshop
Patrick Howell et al & Dispatches from the Vanguard – Skylight Books – Crowdcast Online Event
Authors Patrick Howell, Tori Reid, Tom Lutz & Mobolaji Olambiwonnu will read and discuss their book, Dispatches from the Vanguard: The global International African Arts Movement Versus Donald J. Trump.
Featuring interviews by editor Howell with writers, poets, artists, activists, and others, this book offers insights into the work of leading cultural innovators, and rebukes the current president as a metaphor of white privilege and capitalist despotism.
Where: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Thursday the 13th
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event
Shout! The Open Mic Poetry Night – Zoom Online Edition
Join us for the Zoom online version of SHOUT The Open Mic Poetry Night, which meets every second Thursday of the month. You’ll be signed in to read once the Zoom meeting starts, and we’ll try to add latecomers so everyone has a chance to share. So, dust off your poems, stories, comedy, magic,…whatever floats your heart.
Where: Zoom online event (see site for link)
Date: Thursday the 13th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event (see site for link)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/703007776961726
Deborah Lott Memoir: Don’t Go Crazy Without Me – via Flintridge Bookstore Online Zoom Event
Join Flintridge Books online at Zoom to hear a discussion of the memoir Don’t Go Crazy Without Me, by author Deborah Lott, in conversation with author Melissa Cistaro (Pieces of My Mother).
This memoir tells the tragicomic coming of age story of a girl who grew up under the magnetic spell of her outrageously eccentric father. The author’s essays and reportage, as well as her nervous breakdown, have been widely published and her family’s legacy of hypochondria was featured on NPR’s This American Life. She teaches creative writing at Antioch University-LA, where she serves as faculty advisor to Two Hawks Quarterly.
NOTE: See website link for costs and details.
Where: Flintridge Bookstore – Zoom Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 13th
Time: 7:30 pam – 9 pm
Address: Zoom online event (see site)
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/319176587551784
Storytime Live with a Gallery Interpreter via NHMLA Online Event
Gather with the family, and join a Natural History Museum of Los Angeles interpreter for a reading of one of their favorite books, at our Facebook page.
This is a free event. Details are available at site.
Where: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County – Online event
Date: Friday the 14th
Time: 11 am – 11:30 am
Address: Facebook Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/303231527710280
Mike Davis & Jon Wiener in Conversation with Erin Aubry Kaplan & Danny Widener & Set the Night on Fire on 55th Anniversary of Watts Rebellion – Skylight Books – Crowdcast Online Event
Authors Mike Davis & Jon Wiener, in discussion with Erin Aubry Kaplan & Danny Widener, will discuss their book, Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.
On this 55th anniversary of the 1965 Watts Rebellion, this book chronicles the sixties as a hotbed of political and social upheaval, and a launch-pad of the Black Power movement, as well as the Chicano Moratorium. It was also the birthplace of Asian American identity, a locus for the antiwar, gay liberation, and women’s movements, and the capital of the counterculture. This is a comprehensive history of these many histories and activists. It is a tour de force, delivered in scintillating and fiercely beautiful prose.
Where: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Friday the 14th
Time: 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event
Virtual Spotlight Café by MOAH Cedar – Online Event
All performance art is welcome at the Virtual Spotlight Café Online event every Friday. Claim a spot at our site.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Instagram Live online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 14th
Time: 3 pm – 6 pm
Address: Live online event
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/895683244269034/
Your Author Series: Dhonielle Clayton via LAPL Online Event
Catch author Dhonielle Clayton on the Los Angeles Public library’s YouTube channel or Facebook page as she talks about her book, The Belles!
Where: LAPL YouTube or Facebook – Online event
Date: Friday the 14th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: YouTube or Facebook Online
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/your-author-series-dhonielle-clayton
Jefferson Parker Virtual Event via Laguna Beach Books – Online
Acclaimed bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker delivers a new pulse-pounding thriller, Then She Vanished, and he will discuss his new book in a conversation with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett.
What if the client who hired you can’t be trusted…and the woman you’re looking for doesn’r want to be found? As PI Roland Ford digs into the details of a troubled marriage, the disappearance becomes more complicated. The recent bombings in the city, claimed by the Chaos Committee, might be connected to his case.
This is a free event. To order books log onto www.lagunabeachbooks.com of phone 949-494-4779.
Where: Laguna Beach Books – Online event
Date: Friday the 14th
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: YouTube or Facebook Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/321770399204768
Sara Schaefer & Grand: A Memoir at Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Author Sara Schaefer, in conversation with Bess Kalb, will discuss her book Grand: A Memoir.
This is a story about family, identity, and struggling to make something of yourself. Sara deconstructs her struggles with anxiety and depression, what it means to be a good person, and the radically discordant stories we tell ourselves and share with the world.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Friday the 14th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://booksoup.com/event/sara-schaefer-conversation-bess-kalb-discusses-grand-memoir
Vromans Live: Lauren Sandler & This Is All I Got – Crowdcast Online Event
Author Lauren Sandler will discuss her book, This Is All I Got: A New Mother’s Search for Home, in a Crowdcast online event.
This book is an extraordinary work of literary reportage in which the author chronicles a year in the life of a single new mother, Camila, twenty-two years old with no family or support system. The odds are stacked against her and her son as she navigates the labyrinth of poverty and homelessness in New York City.
Every day more than 45 million Americans attempt to survive below the poverty line, and every night about sixty-thousand people sleep in NYC-run shelters, 40 percent of them children. Sandler brings this deeply personal issue to life, vividly depicting one woman’s hope and despair and her determination to change her life despite the myriad setbacks she encounters.
Where: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online event
Date: Friday the 14th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online event
Mike Davis & J. Hope Stein & The New One via Skylight Books Crowdcast Online Event
Authors Mike Birbiglia & J. Hope Stein will discuss their book, The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad, a mix of his stage show/ comedy and her poems about their journey from adulthood, through married life, and decision to add a child to their family.
Where: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Friday the 14th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-mike-birbiglia-hope-stein
Creative Writing Workshop via LAwritersgroup.com – Online Event
Get words on the page and meet other writers in this online creative writing workshop.
NOTE : See website for online link and further details. Tickets are available via Eventbrite.
Where: Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 15th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/1129862607389180/
Daughters of Hibakusha Tell Hiroshima Stories – Zoom Online Event
Two award-winning Japanese American authors, Kathleen Burkinshaw and Naomi Hirahara, join together for the first time to discuss how they felt compelled to tell the stories of their Hiroshima hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) parents through their novels.
Burkinshaw’s middle grade book, The Last Cherry Blossom, has become a resource for teachers and students under the united Nations Office for Disarmament affairs, and Hirahara’s Mas Arai mysteries span seven books, with the last Edgar Award-nominated one, Hiroshima Boy, being translated into Japanese for a 2021 release by Shogakukan.
These two women and authors, who live on different sides of the U.S., will also share the backstories of their novels, the problems of white-washing the atomic-bombing, and their quest for peace. This program is pay-as-you-wish, and RSVPs are reaquired.
NOTE: See website for Online link and further details.
Where: Zoom Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 15th
Time: 12 pm – 1 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/569593727043698/
Social Justice Book Club & Make a Poem Cry via Tia Chucha’s Bookstore– Online Event
Tia Chucha’s Social Justice Book Club will host a critical discussion on the anthology, Make a Poem Cry, joined by the editors, Kenneth E. Hartman and Luis J. Rodriguez.
Funded by the Arts for Justice Fund, this anthology features writings from one of California’s high security prisons through the Trauma to Transformation Program of Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore. The editors selected these poems and personal essays from the work in the classes taught by Rodriguez, and are shaped from the materials mined form the depths of familial, racial, and economic violence. Here’s redemption in the flesh, and voices and viewpoints needed for a just and equitable world for all.
You must register online at site for this free event, and for more information you may contact andrea@tiachucha.org
NOTE: See website for Online link and further details.
Where: Zoom online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 15th
Time: 12 pm – 1:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/290831238791136/
CIG Book Club & Black Indian: A Memoir via California Imagism Gallery – Online Event
Join the CIG/ Book Club meeting to read and discuss with author Shonda Buchanan, her book, Black Indian: A Memoir. This book explores her family’s legacy of being African American with American Indian roots.
This program is open to all, and on the day of the event the Zoom link will be posted at website..
Where: California Imagism Gallery – Online event (see site to register)
Date: Saturday the 15th
Time: 1 pm – 3 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/587789201932851
Read. Write. Publish: An Instructive Seminar with Yago Cura via Beyond Baroque Zoom Online Event
Librarian-poet Yago Cura will detail the indispensable resources for research, publication, and more offered by the LAPL for free!
If you ever felt frustrated trying to navigate the literary world, and wondered how to get your book written, published and into library circulation, this free seminar is for you. Yago Cura is a Bilingual Outreach Librarian with the Los Angeles Public Library, and runs HINCHAS Pres which publishes the “Librarians with Spines” series, with the help of Max Macias and Autumn Anglin. See site for more information.
Where: Beyond Baroque – Online event
Date: Saturday the 15th
Time: 1 pm – 2 pm
Address: Zoom – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/615359136057538
Camille T. Dungy, Mike Sonksen, Michael Warr & Open Mic via Poetry Flash – Online Event
Jingletown Reading & Open Mic celebrates writers and artists committed to social justice and determined to make positive change in our communities. This month’s featured readers are: Camille T. Dungy, Mike Sonksen, Michael Warr. The Open Mic is limited to five readers, four minutes each, with hosts harold terezon and Adela Najarro.
(Zoom: 992 1716 1772, password: justice; see “Jingletown Reading & Open Mic” Facebook page).
Where: Zoom Online (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 15th
Time: 2 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: Zoom online
Website; https://www.poetryfalsh.org/calendar/?t=Oo20200815o_dungy-sonksen
Saturday Afternoon Poetry Event & Workshop at Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry online via Zoom for readings by Marvin Louis Dorsey, Mehtab Mowgli & Pamela Shea, plus an Open Mic. Reading.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Zoom Online (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 15th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: Zoom online
Website; https://www.saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com
“Birthing Out the Writer in You” Writing Workshop – Zoom Online
Join this free class to know what is needed to write your book, and start writing it.
Event hosted by Lady T Gourmet Popcorn.
NOTE: Check website for further details.
Where: Check website to register and get zoom link online
Date: Saturday the 15th
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Address: See website link for details.
Website: https://www.faceebook.com/events/538958426782020/
The Hidden Life of Trees Book Chat via Monrovia Public Library – Zoom Online Event
The Monrovia Library, Monrovia Canyon Park, and the Monrovia Community Garden are hosting a book discussion on The Hidden Life of Trees, by Peter Wohlleben. To read the book before this event you may check out a free e-book or digital audiobook from OverDrive/Libby with your Monrovia Library card, or follow other options listed at site.
Where: Monrovia Public Library – Online event
Date: Sunday the 16th
Time: 11 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Zoom – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/310725053262789/
La Palabra Reading Series Goes Virtual: 10 Poets in 10 Weeks – Zoom Online Event
La Palabra Reading Series & host Angelina Saenz, present 10 Poets in 10 Weeks, from July 11th through September 13th, in which a poetry reading will go live each Sunday at 2pm for 20 minutes.
Today’s featured poet and writer is Danielle Colin.
Where: La Palabra Zoom – Online event
Date: Sunday the 16th (July 11th through September 13th)
Time: 2 pm – 2:20 pm
Address: La Palabra Zoom – Online event
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