Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Japanese Storytime via Little Tokyo Branch Library Instagram Online – Kids Event
Join us on Little Tokyo Branch Library’s Instagram for Japanese Storytime for children, to enjoy books and activities, such as singing and learning origami, in Japanese.
Where: Little Tokyo Branch Library, LAPL Instagram online
Date: Monday the 17th
Time: 10:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/japanese-storytime
Mixtape Mondays via Get Lit – Words Ignite – Online Event
This is a free mashup series about all things poetry, except the writing part. Learn about submitting poems, social media promotion, and more!
Looking to improve your professional poetry skills? Join us every other Monday during August from 2 pm – 3:30 pm. Open to all ages.
Where: Get Lit- Words Ignite- Online (see site link)
Date: Monday the 17th
Time: 2 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/759534334793260/
Vroman’s Live: Show Them You’re Good & Jeff Hobbs, with Steve Lopez – Crowdcast Online Event
Authors Jeff Hobbs & Steve Lopez will discuss Hobbs’ book, Show Them You’re Good, in a Crowdcast online event.
Show Them You’re Good: A Portrait of Boys in the City of Angels the Year Before College follows four different boys who are high school seniors at two very different schools in Los Angeles. Jeff Hobbs, author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, combines complex social issues with the compelling experience of the individual to convey the cultures in which they live—in contemporary America. This book is not only revelatory and relevant, but also moving, eloquent, and indelibly powerful. Steve Lopez has been an L.A. Times columnist since 2001, and is the author of The Soloist.
Where: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online event (see site)
Date: Monday the 17th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online event
Elisa Gabbert & The Unreality of Memory – Skylight Books’ Crowdcast Online Event
Author Elisa Gabbert, in conversation with author Brandon Taylor, will read and discus her new nonfiction book, The Unreality of Memory.
This book collects provocative, searching essays on disaster culture, climate anxiety, and our mounting collective sense of doom. The author explores our obsessions with disasters, past and present, an questions why we can’t stop fantasizing about the end of the world.
Where: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Monday the 17th
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 17th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.com/calendar or https://www.facebook.com/events/534987650407119/
Tuesday Afternoon Book Club & Lab Girl via Silver Lake Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Please join the Tuesday Afternoon Book Club for a discussion of the book, Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren, via Zoom. Download your digital copy free with your library card at lapl.org and email silver@lapl.org for participation details..
Where: Silver Lake Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event (RSVP and details at site)
Date: Tuesday the 18th
Time: 1 pm
Address: Zoom Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/tuesday-afternoon-book-club
The 1619 Project Learning Circle Series (1st 0f 6 sessions) & The Idea of America LAPL – Online Event
Please join the 1619 Project Learning Circle, created for the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery by Pulitzer Prize winner Nikole Hannah-Jones, to detail the history of slavery, its last effects in our culture, and to celebrate those formerly enslaved peoples making American democracy manifest.
Week 1 will focus on the book, The Idea of America, by Nikole Hannah Jones. See site for books discussed at all six meeting in series.
You may link to the project and a tutorial at website, and must sign in at least 72 hours prior to each weekly event. See site for further details.
Where: Silver Lake Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event (RSVP and details at site)
Date: Tuesday the 18th
Time: 3:30 pm
Address: Zoom Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/1619-project-learning-circle
Terrell Carter & Problem Child at Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join musician, actor and author Terrell Carter, in conversation with Ta’Rhonda Jones, to discuss his new memoir, Problem Child.
This book is the unbelievably true story of the author’s life in Buffalo, New York, where he grew up in a dysfunctional family, each member crazier than the next. And the Problem Child is the only one in the story who may, or may not, actually have a problem.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 18th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://booksoup.com/event/terrell-carter-conversation-ta’rhonda-jones-discusses-problem-child
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 18th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: DSTL Arts online event (Google classroom)
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/
Claire Phillips & A Room with a Darker View at Skylight Books’ Crowdcast Online Event
Author Claire Philips, in conversation with author Emily Rapp Black (Poster Child), will read and discuss her new memoir, A Room with a Darker View.
This is an elegantly written and unflinching memoir about the author’s mother, an Oxford-trained lawyer diagnosed mid-life with paranoid schizophrenia, which challenges current conceptions about mental illness, relapse and recovery, as well as difficulties caring for and aging parent with a chronic disease. It also becomes a startling reflection on mother-daughter relationships during the evolution of 20th century feminism.
Where: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Tuesday the 18th
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event
From Parchment to Pixel Lecture via Huntington Library – Zoom Online Event
In 1567, William Bowyer, Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London, created a lavishly illuminated manuscript for Robert Dudley, Ear of Leicester. This manuscript has been among the most studied volumes since Henry Huntington acquired it n 1912. This program follows this single manuscript as it travels from curator to conservator to digitization team, who all work together to transform a 16th century manuscript to a 21st century digital tool.
Where: Huntington Library – Online Event (RSVP required)
Date: Wednesday the 19th
Time: 10 am – 11 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/729514471167208/
Coffee Time Book Club & The Vanishing Half at Pages Bookstore Online
Join the Pages Coffee Time Book Club every third Wednesday of the month. This month’s selection is The Vanishing Half: A Novel, by Brit Bennett (The Mothers).
This book club meeting will be facilitated by Linda McLoughlin Figel
NOTE: Details and book purchase information available at website.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online Event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 19th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: Online Live Event
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/coffee-time-book-club-virtual-meeting-2
Book Discussion & The Victory Garden via Granada Hills Branch Library, LAPL Online Event
Join the Granada Hills Branch Library Book Club via Zoom for a discussion of The Victory Garden, by Rhys Bowen. For access to the meeting, please email prhodes@lapl.org.
Where: Granada Hills Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event (see site for link)
Date: Wednesday the 19th
Time: 1:30 pm – 3 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-discussion
LGBTQIA Book Club & This Town Sleeps via Silver Lake Branch Library, LAPL Online Event
Join the Silver Lake Branch Library Book Club via Zoom for a discussion of This Town Sleeps, by Dennis E. Staples. All are welcome. The book is available on Hoopla. Please email silver@lapl.org for the meeting link.
Where: Granada Hills Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event (see site for link)
Date: Wednesday the 19th
Time: 3 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/lgbtqia-book-club-7
Book Talk: Robert Chao Romero presents Brown Church via UCLA – Online Event
Join the UCLA Chicano Research Center online when Robert Chao Romero, associate professor for Chicano/a and Central America Studies at UCLA, presents his new book, Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity (InterVarsity Press, 2020).
This book looks to the role Christianity has played in the movement of challenges to the status quo in the cultural landscapes of Latino/a cultures and societies.
Where: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Department – Online Event (see site for link)
Date: Wednesday the 19th
Time: 3:30 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2741565139462624
BYOB Book Club for Tweens and Teens via Beverly Hills Public Library – Online Event
Join the Beverly Hills Public Library BYOB Book Club for Tweens and Teens (4th grade and up) via Zoom for a discussion of your favorite books, to discover new books to read, or to just listen to what everyone has to share. Please register at Reference@beverlyhills.org for the meeting link.
Where: Granada Hills Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event (see site for link)
Date: Wednesday the 19th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/663372171249501/
Meet the Authors of The Misinformation Age via West L.A. Regional Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join the West Los Angeles Regional Library of LAPL Library via Zoom for a discussion with the authors of the book, The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread. Meet authors Caitlin O’Connor and James Weatherall, and discuss this timely topic with them.
Where: West Los Angeles Regional Library, LAPL – Online Event (see site for link)
Date: Wednesday the 19th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/misinformation-age-how-false-beliefs-spread-meet-authors
Brett Gurewitz, Greg Graffin, Jay Bentley, Brian Baker, & Jim Ruland & Do What Your Want at Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join Brett Gurewitz, Greg Graffin, Jay Bentley, Brian Baker, & Jim Ruland, to discuss the book, Do What You Want: The Story of Bad Religion.
This book reveals the ups and downs of the band’s forty-year career, in an irreverent style. Bad Religion paved the way for the punk rock explosion of the 1990s, and show no signs of stopping.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 19th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Feminist Book Club & Fairest at The Last Bookstore Online
The Feminist Book Club, led by Julia Callahan, reads an intersectional variety of feminist lit—fiction, non-fiction, memoirs. This meeting’s participants will read and discuss Meredith Talusan’s Fairest, her memoir of complex identity, from albino boyhood in the Philippines to womanhood as a Harvard grad.
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed, so check website for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Zoom online (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 19th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://lastbookstorela.com/#events
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 19th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
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 20th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2818076744896424/
LA Made: African Americans and Living the California Dream via LAPL – Online Event
As part of the LA Made Series, author Alison Rose Jefferson, in conversation with Lisa Teasley, will discuss her book, Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era.
The author is a third generation Californian and historian exploring spatial justice and the intersection of historical memory, American history, and the history of the African American experience in Southern California during the great migration and Jim Crow era
Where: Streaming live on YouTube or Faceboook, LAPL – Online event
Date: Thursday the 20th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online event
Mandee Johnson & Super Serious at Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Mandee Johnson, in conversation with Christina Catherine Martinez, to discuss her new book, Super Serious.
This book is an oral history on L.A. Indie Standup comedy, with a collection of comedian portraits form a decade of the beloved independent comedy show, The Super Serious Show. Comedians Dave Anthony, Sara Schaefer, and Chris Garcia will join the discussion.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Thursday the 20th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Vroman’s Live: Charles Rosenberg & The Day Lincoln Lost – Crowdcast Online Event
Author Charles Rosenberg, in conversation with Alexandra Petri, will discuss his new book, The Day Lincoln Lost, when James Buchanan made one last move to derail Lincoln’s campaign, steal the election, and throw America into chaos.
This is both a fascinating historical novel and a fast-paced thriller of a nation on the cusp of civil war, and offers an unexpected window into one of the most consequential elections in our country’s history.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Crowdcast online event
Date: Thursday the 20th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online event
Diane Cook & The New Wilderness – Skylight Books – Crowdcast Online Event
Author Diane Cook, in conversation with Jane Marie, will read and discuss her debut novel, The New Wilderness.
This is an imaginative story of a mother’s battle to save her daughter in a world ravaged by climate change, a prescient and suspenseful book from the author of the acclaimed story collection, MAN V. NATURE. It’s a blazing lament of our contempt for nature, as well as a deeply human portrayal of what it means to be human in a dangerous and unpredictable future.
Where: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Thursday the 20th
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Skylight Books Crowdcast – Online event
J. Waldie & Becoming Los Angeles via ALOUD Reading Series, LAPL Online Event
Author D.J. Waldie, in conversation with L.A. Times writer Carolina A. Miranda, will discuss his new book Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place. The author illuminates the ordinary and every-day in lyrical prose, and this collection blends history, memory, and critical analysis to illuminate how Los Angelenos have seen themselves and their city, and how it has fostered willful amnesia about its conflicted past. He will discuss his love for Los Angeles and the renewed hope it takes to sustain the romance. There will also be a special introduction by David Kipen.
NOTE: All events are ticketed by eventbrite, so check website for details.
Where: ALOUD Reading Series, LAPL – Zoom online (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Thursday the 20th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://lfla.org/event/becoming-los-angeles-myth-memory-and-a-sense-of-place/ or
https://www.facebook.com/events/2619161074968423
True Crime Book Club & The Burning at The Last Bookstore Online
The True Crime Book Club, led by James Barlett, reads a wide variety of crime literature. This meeting’s participants will read and discuss Tim Madigan’s book The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, which is appropriate in the present moment, on the cusp of the 100th anniversary of this horrific event..
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed, so check website for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Zoom online (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Thursday the 20th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Storytime Live with a Gallery Interpreter via NHMLA Online Event–Family 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 21st
Time: 11 am – 11:30 am
Address: Facebook Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/303231527710280
Your Author Series: Lauren Castillo via LAPL Online Event – Kids Event Online
Your Author Series presents author and illustrator Lauren Castillo on the LAPL YouTube channel of Facebook page as she talks about her book, Our Friend Hedgehog: The Story of Us.
This is a free event. Details are available at site.
Where: Facebook or YouTube – LAPL Online event
Date: Friday the 21st
Time: 4 pm
Address: Facebook or YouTube Online
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/your-author-series-lauren-castillo
Alex Richards & Liz Lawson Present Accidental and The Lucky Ones at Book Soup – Crowdcast Online YA Event
Join authors Alex Richards and Liz Lawson, to discuss their new YA books, Accidental and The Lucky Ones, respectively.
Accidental is the story of Johanna, who lost her mom and has been raised by her grandparents, now has to sort out the return of her absentee father, her grandparents’ lies, and her mother’s death. In her debut the author tackles a different side of the gun issues that have galvanized teens across the country.
The Lucky Ones is the story of May, a survivor who doesn’t feel like one after the school shooting of her twin brother. Then she meets Zach, who might be able to help them both discover that surviving could be an option after all.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Friday the 21st
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
CAAM Reads Jazz by Toni Morrison via CAAM Blog – Online Event
CAAM’s Book Club continues online with selections and questions for guided reading in line with our exhibitions, with moderator Denise L. McIver. This month’s selection is Jazz, by Toni Morrison, chosen in conjunction with the exhibition Nikita Gale: PRIVATE DANCER to honor the one-year anniversary of the celebrated author’s death.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: California African American Museum Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 22nd
Time: 10 am
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/1129862607389180/
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 22nd
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/1129862607389180/
Fiction Winners Book Club & Netherland via SMPL – Online Event
This book group reads and discusses prize-winning fiction, and meets the 3rd Saturday of the month.
Joseph O’Neill’s book, Netherland is this month’s selection. In a post-9/11 New York City, Hans—a banker originally from the Netherlands—finds himself marooned among rhe strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London. Alone and untethered, Hans stumbles on the vibrant subculture of cricket, where he revisits his lost childhood and begins to reconnect with his life and his adopted country.
Register to attend this program by emailing karen.reitz@smgov.net.
NOTE: See website for Online link and further details.
Where: SMPL Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 22nd
Time: 11 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=31971
Bradbury 100th Celebration and FoVL Meeting via Venice Branch Library, LAPL– Online Event
The Friends of the Venice Library plan to celebrate and honor author Ray Bradbury and his 100th anniversary with a film and zine workshop online via Zoom.
We have also created an educational packet for middle and high schools including a Bradbury Bio Page, an activities page, and a Reader’s Theatre script of Bradbury’s short story, All Summer in a Day, which can be found at our website.
NOTE: See website for Online link and further details and schedule.
Where: Zoom online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 22nd
Time: 2 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1083581968684926
Mystery Book Club & Lost via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join the Westwood Branch Library Mystery Book Club meeting to read and discuss the book, Lost, by Michael Robotham.
This program is open to all, and to receive an invitation, please contact lapl.org
Where: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online event (see site to register)
Date: Saturday the 22nd
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://lapl.org/whats-on/events/mystery-book-club-15
Cahuenga Book Club & & You Can’t Touch My Hair via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Zoom Online Event
Cahuenga Branch Library’s Book club will discuss Phoebe Robinson’s book, You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain. The e-book and audiobook copies are available via Overdrive. Print copies are available to order and pick up at one of 20 library locations. Email hstgeorge@lapl.org for Zoom invitation or questions.
To receive a Zoom invitation please contact wwood@alpl.org.
Where: Zoom – Online event
Date: Saturday the 22nd
Time: 3 pm
Address: Zoom – Online event
Saturday Afternoon Poetry Event & Workshop at Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry online via Zoom for a Print & Internet Publishing Workshop led by poet and organizer Khadija Anderson.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Zoom Online (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 22nd
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 22nd
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Address: See website link for details.
Website: https://www.faceebook.com/events/538958426782020/
Peter Lunenfeld & Drive-In at the Edge of Forever at Book Soup – Crowdcast Online YA Event
Join author Peter Lunenfeld to discuss his new book, City at the Edge of Forever.: Los Angeles Reimagined.
Join us for the Sunset Strip’s first ever drive-in, socially-distanced book event. From the comfort of your car, listen to Peter Lunenfeld do a live reading from his new book, City at the Edge of Forever: Los Angeles Reimagined. Listen to it on you FM dial or watch on your pjone on Facebook Live—but please remember to stay in your car.
NOTE: No entrance to the lot without a ticket, so check site for details.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Saturday the 22nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://booksoup.com/event/drive-edge-forever
Black Swan Book Club & & The Weight of Ink via Gatsby’s Bookstore – Online Event
Gatsby’s Black Swan Book Club will read and discuss Rachel Kadish’s book, The Weight of Ink.
Set in London in the 1660s and the early 21st century, this is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city, and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history. This is an emotional jigsaw puzzle of a novel, as Helen embarks on one last project to determine the identity of the elusive “Aleph.”
Where: Gatsby’s Bookstore – Online event
Date: Saturday the 22nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: Gatsby’s Bookstore – Online event
Website: https://gatsbybooks.com/events-1
Online Mini-Talk and Q&A with Frances Dinkelspiel via Bowers Museum – Online Event
Join award-winning author and journalist Frances Dinkelspiel as she presents her New York Times bestseller and Bowers’ August Book Club selection, Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California. There will be a Q&A with Bowers docent and book club member Terry Fyne.
This is an exclusive pre-recorded presentation.
Where: Bowers Museum – Zoom Online event
Date: Sunday the 23rd
Time: 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Address: Bowers Museum – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/270836034342816
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 Octavio Quintanilla.
Where: La Palabra Zoom – Online event
Date: Sunday the 23rd (July 11th through September 13th)
Time: 2 pm – 2:20 pm
Address: La Palabra Zoom – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/413256312967460/
Fourth Sundays: Penelope Moffet & Jose Hernandez Diaz via Claremont Library – Zoom Online Event
Claremont Library hosts Fourth Sundays Poetry Readings, featuring Southern California poets Penelope Moffet & Jose Hernandez Diaz.
Penelope Moffet is the author of two chapbooks, most recently, It Isn’t That They Mean to Kill You (2018). Her poems have appeared widely in journals and anthologies.
Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow, and author of a collection of prose poems: The Fire Eater (2020). He is currently an editor at Frontier and Palette Poetry.
Where: Claremont Library – Online event
Date: Sunday the 23rd
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: La Palabra Zoom – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/625210781454689
Sgv-Ncnw Book Club Discussion & Post Truamatic Slave Syndrome – Online Event
Join us for a discussion of the book Post Trumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Endurng Injury and Healing (PTSS), by author Dr. Joy DeGruy.
This is an opportunity to come together online. Enjoy your libations and snacks while communing online. All are welcome. Contact SGVNCWbookclub@gmail.com for information.
Where: Sgv-Ncnw Book Club – Zoom Online event
Date: Sunday the 23rd
Time: 3 pm – 4 pm
Address: Sgv-Ncnw Book Club – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/TheSocalareancnwinc/
Beatnik Café & Open Mic with Natalie J. Graham – Zoom Online Event
Today’s Beatnik Café & Open Mic presents another night of hearing truth from lesser heard perspectives. Our featured poet tonight, from 7:15 – 7:30 pm, is Natalie J. Graham.
NOTE: See site for complete schedule.
Where: Beatnik Café Zoom – Online event (Zoom link at site)
Date: Sunday the 23rd
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: Beatnik Café by Hey Hey and Hanna Pachman- Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/event/665913864136139/
The Thing in the Labyrinth Book Club & The Burning at The Last Bookstore Online
The Thing in the Labyrinth Book Club, led by Katherine McGee, reads a wide variety of horror literature. This meeting’s participants will read and discuss Stephen Graham Jones’s book The Only Good Indians, in which four Blackfeet tribe members mess with the Elders’ protected elk herd, and get more than they bargained for.
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed, so check website for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Zoom online (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Sunday the 23rd
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://lastbookstorela.com/#events or
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