Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Nick Hornby & Just Like You via Literary Affairs’ Books & Bathrobes – Zoom Online Event
Bestselling author Nick Hornby will discuss his novel Just Like You in a book club-style conversation with Julie Robinson in a Zoom online event.
This novel is a twenty-first century love story about what happens when the person who makes you happiest is someone you never expected. Hornby is also the author of High Fidelity and About a Boy, as well as several works of non-fiction.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Literary Affairs Event – Zoom Online Event
Date: Monday the 5th
Time: 10:30 am – 12 pm
Address: Zoom Live
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/3224526467603060
BLACK JOY Event via 2020 Lambda Lit Fest – Zoom Online Event
Lambda Lit Fest 2020 presents Day 1 of 5 of its literary events: BLACK JOY, featuring:
Nicole Shawan Junior is a black, queer and poverty-born counter-storyteller who was bred in the bass-heavy beat and scratch of Brooklyn, where the cool of beautiful inner-city life barely survived crack cocaine’s burn
Roger Q. Mason is an award-winning writer, performer, and educator known for using history’s lens to highlight the biases that separate rather than unite us.
Jordyn Jay is a community organizer, arts advocate and Founder and Executive Director of the Black Trans Femmes in the Arts Collective (BFTA).
Nasir Kenneth Ferebee is a Los Angeles based TV producer, filmmaker, activist, and public speaker.
George M. Johnson is a n award-winning writer, activist, and bestselling author of All Boys Aren’t Blue.
This event is a discussion on Black Joy, how it is vital to the health of Black LGBTQIA+ communities, and how happiness can be celebrated in Black art.
NOTE: Details and information available at website. FREE, but registration required.
Where: Lambda Lit Fest – Zoom Online Event
Date: Monday the 5th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://www.lambdaliterary.org/litfest/ or https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_16HhxbL8TVuQL6wAcZPmbA
Andria Lo & Valerie Luu & Chinatown Pretty at Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join authors Andria Lo and Valerie Luu to discuss their book, Chinatown Pretty: Fashion and Wisdom from Chinatown’s Most Stylish Seniors.
This is a book of beautiful portraits and heartwarming stories of trend-setting seniors across six Chinatowns, as featured on their blog and Instagram, Chinatown Pretty, since 2014.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Monday the 5th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Vroman’s Live: Nathan Marsak & Bunker Hill Los Angeles via Vroman’s – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Nathan Marsak in conversation about his new book, Bunker Hill Los Angeles: Essence of Sunshine and Noir..
Historian Marsak tells the story of Bunker Hill, from its inception in mid-19th century Los Angeles, as the epicenter of its shifting demographics to an urban underbelly, and as a hub of arts, politics, business, and tourism. With more than 250 phots, as well as maps and vintage ephemera, he shares its lost world and guides us to its new one.
NOTE: Details event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Monday the 5th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://vromansbookstore.com/event/vromans-live-nathan-marsak
LiveTalks LA: John Mackey & Conscious Leadsership – Online Event
Author and Whole Foods CEO John Mackey will present and discuss his book, Conscious Leadership: Elevating Humanity through Business.
This is a follow-up to groundbreaking bestseller Conscious Capitalism. The author has devoted his life to selling natural and organic foods, and building a better business model.
NOTE: Event is available to register and watch, and book itself may be purchased when you RSVP at site link.
Where: LiveTalks LA – Online event (see site)
Date: Monday the 5th
Time: 6 pm – 7:15 pm
Address: LiveTalks LA – Online Event
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/john-mackey
Mark Gevisser, with Sarah Schulman, & The Pink Line via Skylight Books – Online
Join author Mark Gevisser, in conversation with Sarah Schulman, to discuss his new book, The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers.
This book is a groundbreaking look at how the issues of sexuality and gender identity divide and unite the world today. More than seven years in the making, this book explores numerous communities, and how the conversation around sexuality and gender identity has brought relatively quick change as well as greater divides over the course of twenty years.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Skylight Books – Online event
Date: Monday the 5th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 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 5th
Time: 7:30pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Queer Book Club & Rebecca via The Last Bookstore – Online Event
The Queer Book Club, led by CB Lee, reads across genres (mostly fiction), and this month will read and discuss the book Cemetery Boys, by Aiden Thomas, in which a young brujo initiate must prove himself—and risk losing a new-found love.. AND—the author will be stopping by to say “hello” and there will be a Q&A!
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed, so see details at site.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online Event (see site for link)
Date: Monday the 5th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: The Last Bookstore – Zoom Online
Website: https://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Women’s Book Club via NAWBO – Orange County – Zoom Online Event
The October Book Club, hosted by the National Association of Women Business Owners – Orange County will host their monthly Books + Coffee event via Zoom online. The book selection will be announced at site soon, so check the link given for past selections and further information.
Where: National Association of Women Business Owners – Online Event (see site for link)
Date: Tuesday the 6th
Time: 8:30 am – 10 am
Address: NAWBO – OC – Zoom Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/298821411364630
BHPL Book Discussion Group via Beverly Hills Public Library – Zoom Online Event
The Book Discussion Group will host their monthly virtual meeting to discuss The Nickle Boys by Colson Whitehead. This novel is based on a true story of documented and prolonged abuses perpetrated on incarcerated young men in Florida.
Where: Beverly Hills Public Library – Online Event (see site for link)
Date: Tuesday the 6th
Time: 10:15 am – 12 pm
Address: BHPL – Zoom Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2773156672905645
Jacob Kramer, with K-Fai Steele, & Okapi Tale via Skylight Books – Kids Online Event
Join author Jacob Kramer, and illustrator K-Fai Steele, to discuss their new children’s book, Okapi Tale, the sequel to the popular and beloved Noodlephant.
Now that the Phantastic Noodler is public property, Beaston is the perfect place for pasta parties. Creatures flock from far and wide. But soon there are problems, and this story evolves into a tale of politics, power, and …pasta!
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Skylight Books – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 6th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-okapi-tale-jacob-kramer-k-fai-steele
Stuart Gibbs Book Launch & Spy School Revolution via Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Facebook Live Kids Event
Join the Book Launch for bestselling children’s author Stuart Gibbs’ latest Spy School Series release, Spy School Revolution. This will be a live Facebook event.
NOTE: Please register and see details at site.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Facebook Live Event (see site for details and link)
Date: Tuesday the 6th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 2207 Honolulu Ave., Montrose, CA 91020
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/spy-school-revolution-facebook-live-launch-stuart-gibbs
HH@Home: Amy Shearn and Melanie Conroy-Goldman via RHP Fall Book Tour – Online Event
Red Hen Press will host the RHP Virtual Fall Book Tour series, a virtual reading and conversation series, celebrating the releases of the RHP Fall 2020 season. Check site for details.
Amy Shearn is the author of the book UNSEEN CITY, as well as the critically-acclaimed novels, How Far Is the Ocean from Here and The Mermaid of Brooklyn. She is a fiction editor for Joyland Magazine and lives in New York City with her two children. This book is about a spinster librarian who becomes obsessed with an intriguing patron and the haunted house he’s trying to research.
Melanie Conroy-Goldman is the author of THE LIKELY WORLD, the story of one woman’s fragile sobriety following 20 years addiction to cloud, a drug that wipes out the user’s short-term memory. The author is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and also volunteers at a maximum security men’s prison with the Cornell Prison Education Program.
Where: Red Hen Press Facebook – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Tuesday the 6th
Time: 4pm – 5 pm
Address: Four Platforms – Facebook Live Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/3262211677197967
Ocean Vuong Reading via SAIC Visiting Artists Program – Online Event
Ocean Vuong is the author of the New York Times bestselling author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and the poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds. He has received many accolades, including a 2019 MacArthur Genius Fellowship
NOTE: Please note this is a free non-ticketed event open to the public. See site for code.
Where: SAIC Visiting Artists Program – Online Event (see site for link)
Date: Tuesday the 5th
Time: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Address: Online event (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/829720684501728/
David Kessler & Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief via UCLA Semel Institute – Online Event
Davis Kessler, coauthor with Elisabeth Kubler-Ross of the iconic book On Grief and Grieving, in conversation with Rabbi Steven Leder (More Beautiful Than Before), will discuss his groundbreaking new work, The Sixth Stage of Grief: Funding Meaning. He gives readers a roadmap to remembering those who have died with more love than pain, and how to move forward in a way that honors our loved ones.
NOTE: Please register and get link information via Eventbrite link.
Where: Online Event (see site for link)
Date: Tuesday the 5th
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2905084252891785
Christine Perakis, with Gina DeVee, & Resilient Leader via Pages Bookstore – Online
Join author Christine Perakis, in conversation with Gina DeVee, to discuss her new book, The Resilient Leader: Life Changing Strategies to Overcome Today’s Turmoil and Tomorrow’s Uncertainty.
Life may not be smooth sailing, but with strategies to build strength, you can survive the sotrms to become invincible in any weather. There will be a=a discussion of resilience in the time of Covid in a BYOB Virtual Happy Hour.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 6th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online event
Random Reads Book Club via Santa Clarita Public Library – Zoom Online Event
The Random Reads Book Club will meet virtually to discuss whatever it is you’re reading with others in a fun group. It’s the perfect way to find new authors and genres to explore based on other recommendations. Register at site.
Where: Santa Clarita Public Library – Zoom Online Event (see site for link)
Date: Tuesday the 6th
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: SCPL – Zoom Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/3840353792663886
BLACK AESTHETICS Event via 2020 Lambda Lit Fest – Zoom Online Event
Lambda Lit Fest 2020 presents Day 2 of 5 of its literary events: BLACK AESTHETICS featuring:
Juliana Huxtable is an artist, writer, and musician working between New York and Berlin.
t’ai freedom ford is a New York City high school English teacher and author of two collections of poetry, including and ”more black,” winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry.
Marrion Johnson is a Black queer writer, storyteller, and communications strategist, based out of Oakland, California.
Jaden is an LA-based poet, performer, cultural worker, and story teller.
In this event, four of today’s leading Black artists come together to share their perspective on Black Queer Aesthetics and how they define, create, and imagine art-making. They’ll define their personal views on Black aesthetics and how their particular philosophies on art-making inform their work.
NOTE: Details and information available at website. FREE, but registration required.
Where: Lambda Lit Fest – Zoom Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 6th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Zoom Live
Website: https://www.lambdaliterary.org/litfest/ or https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_esn4-67eRiGTqzjdBqN4Tg
Vroman’s Live: Terri Cheney & Modern Madness: An Owner’s Manual – Crowdcast Online Event
Author Terri Cheney, in conversation with Meredith Skrzypek Arthur, will present her new book, Modern Madness, in a Crowdcast online event.
This book flips mental illness inside out, exposing the visceral story of the struggles, stigma, relationship dilemmas, treatments, and recovery techniques she and others have encountered. Sometimes humorous, sometime harrowing, this is the ultimate owner’s manual on mental illness, breaking a complex subject into readily understandable concepts.
Where: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 6th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online event
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/vromans-live-terri-cheney
John B. Judis, with Peter Drier, & The Socialist Awakening at Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author John B. Judis, in conversation with Peter Drier, to discuss his book, The Socialist Awakening: What’s Different Now about the Left.
This book completes the trilogy the author began with The Populist Explosion and The Nationalist Revival, and offers an incisive examination of growing interest in socialist ideals. It chronicles the rebirth of an idea driven by a rising anti-capitalist resentment—an urgent idea in the wake of the pandemic and the economic depression.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 6th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Lee Gutkind & My Last Eight Thousand Days – Chevalier’s Books – Online Event
Author Lee Gutkind, in conversationwith Barbara Abercrombie, will read and discuss his new book, My Last Eight Thousand Days.
This is a revealing, candid, and vivid portrait of one man’s view of aging. Using his skills as an immersive journalist, he offers a memoir that recounts not only his triumphs, but exposing his missteps and challenges. He examines the realities of aging with the characteristically blunt, melancholic wit and authenticity that drive the quiet force of his work.
Where: Chevalier’s Books – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Tuesday the 6th
Time: 6pm
Address: Chevalier’s Books – Online event
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/events/lee-gutkind
Cassidy Lucas & Santa Monica via Diesel Bookstore – Online Event
Author Cassidy Lucas (aka Julia Fierro and Caeli Wolfson Widger) will read and discuss their new book, Santa Monica.
This novel told in narrative flashbacks tells the story of the death of a movie star handsome heartthrob fitness coach, Zach Doheny, found dead on the floor of his gym. Soon residents of Santa Monica begin to crack under the stress of their secrets.
Where: Diesel Books – Online event (register at site)
Date: Tuesday the 6th
Time: 6:30pm
Address: Diesel Books – Online event
State of L.A.: Poetry Now via The Ford – Online Event
Join us to hear a panel discussion as well as dynamic performances from rising and award-winning poets and writers, bringing into relief the culture and politics of their respective spaces, including:
Buddy Wakefield is an international poet, slam champion, and Write Bloody author.
Jasmine Williams is a poet, playwright, and curator of Da Poetry Lounge.
Arturo Quiros is a teaching artist.
Matthew Cuban and Ms. Alyesha Wise – Artist Page, co-founders of Spoken Literature Art Movement, will moderate the discussion.
NOTE: Please register and see details at site.
Where: The Ford Amphitheater – Online Event (see site for link)
Date: Tuesday the 6th
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/796772097730648
WRITING IN HOLLYWOOD Event via 2020 Lambda Lit Fest – Zoom Online Event
Lambda Lit Fest 2020 presents Day 3 of 5 of its literary events: WRITING IN HOLLYWOOD AS BLACK AND POC LGBTQIA+ FOLKS, featuring:
Steve Harper is supervising producer on the CW drama “Stargirl” and has written for “God Friended Me” and created the Emmy nominated web series, “Send Me.”
Kase Pena is a transgender Latina female of Dominican descent, currently raising funds for her independent feature film, “Trans Los Angeles.”
Taneka Stotts is an Emmy nominated TV writer who has worked on the animated series “My Little Pony: Pony Life,” Steven Universe Feature,” and “Craig of the Creek.”
Darnell L. Moore is the author of the 2019 Lambda Literary Award winning memoir, No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America, which was a 2018 NYT Notable Book and Barnes & Nobel Discover Great New Writers pick. He is Director of Inclusion Strategy for Content and Marketing at Netflix, and is now working on his 2nd book.
In this event, you will hear those who know what happened behind the screen in a time where “diversity” is a slogan, but not necessarily an integral part of how the industry functions. These professionals will discuss re-imagining the future of Hollywood and how they are manifesting their d reams as BIPOC LGBTQIA+ writers.
NOTE: Details and information available at website. FREE, but registration required.
Where: Lambda Lit Fest – Zoom Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 7th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Zoom Live
Website: https://www.lambdaliterary.org/litfest/ or https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AqhWJ1-xSjKEWEKD7q2LVA
William Loving, with Ivy Pochoda, & City of Angles via Skylight Books – Online YA Event
Join author William Loving, in conversation with author Ivy Pochoda, to discuss his new novel, City of Angles.
This novel is a darkly humorous story of hope, loss, family, and most of all, community, set in modern-day Los Angeles. In this re-imagining of The Aeneid of Virgil. Homer V. Innes loses everything in a devastating series of calamities and winds up homeless on the streets of L.A. His journey contributes to the ultimate epiphany as he seeks his place in the world.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Skylight Books – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 7th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-william-loving-reads-city-angles-ivy-pochoda
Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop via Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
Join Beyond Baroque’s longest running free poetry workshop via Zoom online as we welcome new and seasoned poets to share their work and provide feedback. Facilitators are rotated quarterly, and the current facilitator is James Maverick.
NOTE: See site for further details.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 7th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Karin Crilly & The Blue Satin Nightgown via Friends of Huntington Beach Public Library – Zoom Online Event
Author Karin Crilly will read and discuss her memoir, The Blue Satin Nightgown.
This book is the author’s recounting of her life changing, dream-fulfilling adventure moving to a quaint village in France to re-invent herself at the age of 78. Hear insights from her about this courageous and remarkable journey.
Where: Friends of the Huntington Beach Library – Online Zoom event (RSVP at site)
Date: Thursday the 8th
Time: 4pm – 5 pm
Address: Zoom – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/299469428018565
Nicole Wachell, with Diana Sieker, & The Right Amount of Brilliance via Pages Bookstore – Online
Join author Nicole Wachell, in conversation with Diana Sieker, to discuss her new book, The Right Amount of Brilliance.
This novel tells the story of Jake Washington and Sebastian Barnabas, two Bay area professors who find out they are twins who were separated at the age of three. This revelation exposes their families’ histories and the issues that led to their estrangement. The conflicts between the men, their families, and everyone who knows them grow increasingly complex, culminating in devastating consequences.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online event
Date: Thursday the 8th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online event
POLITICS, ACTIVISM & WRITING THROUGH A BLACK & POC LGBTQIA + LENS Event via 2020 Lambda Lit Fest – Zoom Online Event
Lambda Lit Fest 2020 presents Day 4 of 5 of its literary festival events: POLITICS, ACTIVISM & WRITING THROUGH A BLACK & POC LGBTQIA + LENS, featuring:
Kai M. Green is a writer, poet, filmmaker and scholar. He is working on a memoir titled, A Body Made Home. He is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Williams College.
fei hernandez was born in Chihuahua, Mexico and is an Inglewood-raised immigrant trans non-binary visual artist, writer, and healer.
edxi is a Afro Pinay Siksika trans multimedia cultural worker. Her work entails political education while providing material support to marginalized & colonized communities. Creating art/media for the sake of propagating resistance culture, counter narrative, and collective liberatory projects that spark discourse, sources of healing, critical thought, dialogue, and mutual aid.
Ianne Fields Stewart is a black, queer lesbian, and non-binary transfeminine New York-based storyteller working at the intersection of theatre and activism, founder of The Okra Project, and co-organizer of Brooklyn Liberation: A Rally for Black Trans Lives.
Zach Stafford is an award-winning journalist wo recently served as the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and host of the morning show AM2DM.
In this event, you will hear what it means to be a BIPOC LGBTQIA+ writer and activist within a white supremacist cis-gender heteronormative dominated world. Panelists will share what activism and writing means to them as BIPOC LGBTQIA+ creators..
NOTE: Details and information available at website. FREE, but registration required.
Where: Lambda Lit Fest – Zoom Online Event
Date: Thursday the 8th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Zoom Live
Website: https://www.lambdaliterary.org/litfest/ or https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Xp5U98cEQ6O3STslvMNg6g
Bruce Van Dusen and Art Bell, & 60 Stories About 30 Seconds and Constant Comedy via Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join Bruce Van Dusen and Art Bell to hear them discuss the book, 60 Stories About 30 Seconds and Constant Comedy.
Constant Comedy takes readers behind the scenes into the comedy start-up on its way to becoming the most successful and creative purveyors of popular culture in the U.S.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Thursday the 8th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Vroman’s Live: Eddie R. Cole and David G. Garcia: The Campus Color Line and Strategies of Segregation – Crowdcast
Author Eddie R. Cole will present and discuss his book, The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom and author David G. Garcia will present and discuss his book, Strategies of Segregation: Race, Resistance, and the Struggle for Educational Equality.
Both authors are professors at UCLA. Cole’s book illuminates how the legacy of academic leaders’ actions continues to influence the unfinished struggle for Black freedom and racial equality in education and beyond. Garcia’s book unearths the ideological and structural architecture of enduring racial inequality within and beyond schools in Oxnard, California, where meticulously researched records spanning 1903-1974 exposed a separate and unequal system and its purposeful links with racially restrictive housing covenants..
Where: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 8th
Time: 6pm – 7 pm
Address: Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online event
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/vromans-live-eddie-cole-and-david-garcia
LiveTalks LA: Lenny Kravitsz with Jimmy Fallon & Let Love Rule – Online Event
Author and musician Lenny Kravitz, in conversation with Jimmy Fallon, will present and discuss his memoir, Let Love Rule. He looks back at his life with condor, self-scrutiny, and humor. “Black and white, Jewish and Christian, the Jackson Five and Led Zeppelin, I accepted my Gemini soul. I owned it, I adored it. Yins and yangs mingled in various parts of my heart and mind, giving me balance and fueling my curiosity and comfort.”
NOTE: Event is available to register and watch, and book itself may be purchased when you RSVP at site link.
Where: LiveTalks LA – Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 8th
Time: 6 pm – 7:15 pm
Address: LiveTalks LA – Online Event
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/lenny-kravitz/
Hope Edelman & The Aftergrief – Chevalier’s Books – Online Event
Author Hope Edelman, in conversationwith Tembi Locke, will read and discuss her new book, The Aftergrief: Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss.
This is a validating new approach to the long-term grieving process that explains why we feel “stuck,” why this is normal, and how shifting our perception of grief can help us grow. The author previously wrote Motherless Daughters.
Where: Chevalier’s Books – Online event (RSVP at site)
Date: Thursday the 8th
Time: 6pm
Address: Chevalier’s Books – Online event
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/events/hope-edelman
Seth Greenland & A Kingdom of Tender Colors via Diesel Bookstore – Online Event
Author Seth Greenland, in conversationwith Tom Teicholz, will read and discuss his new book, A Kingdom of Tender Colors.
This book is the story of author Seth Greenland’s journey from a diagnosis of an aggressive form of lymphatic cancer, through his fears and challenges and finding the right treatments, to triumphing, without losing his sanity or humor.
Where: Diesel Bookstore – Crowdcast online event (Register at site)
Date: Thursday the 8th
Time: 6:30pm
Address: Diesel Bookstore – Online event
Casey Schreiner & Discovering Griffith Park via Modern Hiker & Friends of Griffith Park – Online Event
Author Casey Schreiner will read and discuss his book, Discovering Griffith Park: A Local’s Guide.
This is mostly a hiking guide but also has historical tidbits and information about Griffith Park attractions. Casey is a local writer who founded the popular website and blog Modern Hiker.
Where: Modern Hiker & Friends of Griffith Park – Online Facebook event (RSVP at site)
Date: Thursday the 8th
Time: 7pm
Address: Facebook Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/596036541062379
Story Time Live with a Gallery Interpreter via Natural History Museum of L.A. County – Facebook Online Kids Event
Please enjoy a family event from the L.A. County Natural History, which hosts a Gallery Interpreter reading event for the little ones, to share a story in a live reading of favorite books, every Friday morning!
This is a Facebook online event.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 9th
Time: 11 am – 11:30 am (note time change)
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/331827284747549
Matt Haig & The Midnight Library via The Library Club, Anaheim – Online Event
Author Matt Haig, in conversation with Debbie Hicks, will read and discuss his novel, The Midnight Library.
This book has a powerful message of hope and why we must protect our libraries at all costs. You will also be able to ask the author questions.
Where: The Library Club, Anaheim – Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 9th
Time: 12pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/954183438426521
SEX & BODY POLITICS Event via 2020 Lambda Lit Fest – Zoom Online Event
Lambda Lit Fest 2020 presents Day 5 of 5 of its literary festival events: SEX & BODY POLITICS, featuring:
Brontez Purnell is a 2018 Whiting Award recipient for Fiction, and his work weaves sustained narratives of sex and desperation punctuated with triumph.
Kenyon Farrow is a writer and activist, spitting his time between NYC and his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio.
KOKUMO, the Queen of Queer Soul, is a legendary, award-winning musician, poet and activist.
Nahshon D. Anderson is a creative nonfiction writer from Altadena, California and is author of a forthcoming memoir titles Shooting Range.
Randa Jarrar is the author of the forthcoming memoir Love Is an Ex-Country, the novel A Map of Home, and the collection of stories, Him, Me, Muhammed Ali.
This is a panel where there are no rules or norms to follow. Panelists are free to say what they want about sex and the body without censorship. This is a conversation where BIPOC LGBTQIA+ writers will share how sex & body politics manifests in their writing.
NOTE: Details and information available at website. FREE, but registration required.
Where: Lambda Lit Fest – Zoom Online Event
Date: Friday the 9th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Zoom Live
Website: https://www.lambdaliterary.org/litfest/ or https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN
Susannah R. Drissi, with Dr. Christina Garcia & Until We’re Fish via Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join poet, playwright, and author Susannah R. Drissi, in conversation with Dr. Christina Garcia, to hear her discuss her new book, Until We’re Fish. With special guest Ricardo Lemvo (leader of Makina Loca, a Los Angeles-based salsa band).
This is an unforgettable coming-of-age story, which blends romance, violence, mood, and ethos of the Cuban Revolution with a young man’s hopeless and heroic first love. The author constructs a Don Quixote for our times, an intimate exploration of the souls of people willing to sacrifice everything to be free.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Friday the 9th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Michael Torres Launch Party of An Incomplete List of Names – Online Event
Join poet, educator and host Sara Borjas for the West Coast Book Launch of An Incomplete List of Names (Beacon Press, October 2020), the debut collection by Michael Torres, featuring:
Michael Torres is a VONA distinguished alum and Canto Mundo fellow, winner of the 2016 Loft Mentor series, and was awarded a Jerome Foundation Research rant to visit the pueblo in Jalisco, Mexico where his father grew up. He is a 2020 McKnight Writing Fellow, and a former Artist-in-Residence at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. His first collection of poems, An Incomplete List of Names, was selected by Raquel Salas Rivers for the National Poetry Series and will be published by Beacon Press in October, 2020. He was born and brought up in Pomona, CA where he was a graffiti artist, and currently teaches in the MFA program at Minnesota State University, Mankato, and through the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.
Diana Maria Delgado is the author of Tracing the Horse, a New Times “New & Noteworthy” selection, and the chapbook Late Night Talks with Men I Think I Can Trust. She is currently Literary Director of the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona.
Melisse Garcia is from Long beach and now lives in Albuquerque, where she received her MFA in Poetry from the University of New Mexico in 2016, and is now a 5th year PhD student in Rhetoric and Writing. Her poetry manuscript is titled A Guayaba’s Heart.
Michael Stonesweat Knapp, enrolled member of the Costanoan-Rumsen Carmel Band of Ohlone Indians, is an MFA graduate at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ Lo Rez program by way of Los Angeles County, with a BA in English from CSU San Bernardino. He is a 2016 Periphery Poets Fellow, former editor for Mud City, and has curated the Claremont West Reading Series. He is now an adjunct professor in various English departments around California’s Inland Empire. NOTE: See website link to register and for details.
Where: – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Friday the 9th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm PDT
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/342706346965356/ or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-incomplete-list-of-names-by-michael-torres-west-coast-launch-party-tickets-121741818055
Get Lit Saturday Class via Get Lit – Words Ignite – Online Teen Event
Join Get Lit Saturday Class, a weekly poetry workshop that is free and open to all teens!
Learn writing techniques, performance training, and confidence-building every Saturday morning, from 10 am to 1 pm via Zoom.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Get Lit – Words Ignite – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 10th
Time: 9 am – 12 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/670785767128505/
Scott Graham & Margaret Mizushima via Anne’s Book Carnival – Online Zoom Event
Join us for an author talk with Scott Graham and Margaret Mizushima, hosted by Anne’s Book Carnival, Orange California.
Scott Graham is the author of Mesa Verde Victim and Margaret Mizushima is the author of Hanging Falls, and they will visit about their recently released mysteries.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Anne’s Book Carnival – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 10th
Time: 9 am – 10 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2688452608150035
Madeline Miller & Circe via Palos Verdes Library District – Online Event
Meet author Madeline Miller who will read and discuss her novel, Circe.
The author has also written the book Song of Achilles.
Where: The Palos Verdes Library District – Online event (Registration required at site)
Date: Saturday the 10th
Time: 10 am – 11 am
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/336909400785609
Western Edge Writers Workshop via Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Writers and aspiring writers, join us for a group discussion that supports writing endeavors of all genres: fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and memoirs. Share your work and receive constructive criticism.
NOTE: Email shannah@lapl.org for Zoom participation details.
Where: Eagle Rock Library – Zoom Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 10th
Time: 10 am – 12 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/western-edge-writers-0
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 10th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://facebook.com/events/1129862607389180/
Chris Harris & Dan Santat & ALPHABET Virtual Event via Children’s Book World – Online Kids Event
LEARN THE ALPHABET IN A WHOLE NEW WAY! Here’s a totally twisted take on the alphabet that invites readers to look at it as 26 letters unique from each other—and yet they all look like one another. Kind of like…one big family.
Where: Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 10th
Time: 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://facebook.com/events/645202212794729
Westwood Branch Library Book Club & The Plot Against America via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join the Westwood Branch library Book Club via Zoom to discuss the book, The Plot Against America, by authorPhilip Roth. This novel imagines a life in America if conservatives had led the political and social events of the Roosevelt years.
NOTE: Please register by emailing @punkrockmarthas.com.
Where: LAPL Zoom – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 10th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: http://lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-27
James Patterson & Kwame Alexander via Buffington Book Festival – Online Kids Event
Bestselling authors James Patterson & Kwame Alexander will join with a panel of authors via the Buffington Book Festival online, for a virtual keynote presentation to discuss children’s literature.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Buffington Book Festival – Online Event (streaming link provided with ticket purchase)
Date: Saturday the 10th
Time: 11 am – 1 pm
Address: Online Live
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/608909093076405
Helen McDonald & Vesper Flights via Buffington Book Festival – Online Event
Join us for a conversation with author Helen McDonald, author of H Is for Hawk,to discuss her new book, Vesper Flights.
Creating Conversations (Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore) presents this event live from England, and the author will join in conversation with radio personality Pam Atherton. Tickets are available through Eventbrite.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Creating Conversations – Online Event (streaming link provided with ticket purchase)
Date: Saturday the 10th
Time: 12 pm – 1 pm
Address: Online Live
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/449942742573652
Veronica Reyes Reading Event & Interview via June Mazer Lesbian Archives – Zoom Online
Join us for a reading and interview event with award-winning author, Chicana, Latinx LGBTQ poet Veronica Reyes.
Veronica Reyes is the author of Chopper! Chopper!: Poetry from the Borderlands (Arktoi Books, 2013). She is a poet from East Los Angeles, and won the international Latino Book Award 2014 and was a finalist for Lambda literary Award 2014 and Golden Crown Literary Society Award 2014. She is presently faculty in the Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies program and Department of English at Cal State LA. Her work shares the lives of her communities: Mexican American, brown queers, Latinx, and la joteria; and it contributes to the growing narrative of Chicana/o/x literature.
Where: June Mazer Lesbian Archives – Zoom Online (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 10th
Time: 2 pm– 3:30 pm
Address: Zoom online
Website; https://www.facebook.com/event/1775785052569865
Saturday Afternoon Poetry Event & Writing Workshop with G.T. Foster via Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a Deep Critique Poetry Writing Workshop led by G.T. Foster.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Santa Catalina Library, Zoom Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 10th
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 10th
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Address: See website link for details.
Website: https://www.faceebook.com/events/538958430115353/
LiveTalks LA: Henry Winkler with Lin Oliver & Alien Superstar – Online Kids & YA Event
Author and actor Henry Winkler, with co-author Lin Oliver, will present and discuss the kids & YA book, Alien Superstar: Lights, Camera Danger!. This is #2 in the highly illustrated Alien Superstar middle grade series
After escaping his oppressive red dwarf planet and landing a role on a popular sitcom, Buddy Burger seems destined for success. But can he continue to keep his alien identity secret from his friends and fans? This book is action-packed and full of laughs.
NOTE: Event is available to register and watch, and book itself may be purchased when you RSVP at site link.
Where: LiveTalks LA – Online event (see site)
Date: Sunday the 11th
Time: 3 pm – 4:15 pm
Address: LiveTalks LA – Online Event
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/henry-winkler/
We Are Here Anthology Celebrating 10 Years of Village Poets via Flintridge Bookstore – Online Event
We Are Here is an anthology including 80 poets, edited by former Poets Laureate of Sunland Tujunga Dr. Maja Trochimczyk (2010-2012) and Marlene Hitt (1999-2001). The Village Poets have held readings at Bolton Hall Museum since 2010, featuring guests and featured poets, as well as 10 poets laureate in a unique and historical setting.
Where: Flintridge Bookstore – Zoom online (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Sunday the 11th
Time: 4:30pm – 6:30 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/370310840649998
We’re All Gonna Die Book Club & Mexican Gothic at The Last Bookstore Online
We’re All Gonna Die Book Club, led by Peter Clines, reads dystopian literature and topics across genres. This meeting’s participants will read and discuss Rivers Solomon’s book An Unkindness of Ghosts, which is the story of a young medic on an intergenerational starship unraveling a mystery that could upend the socio-racial stratification of this last remnant of humanity.
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed, so check website for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Zoom online (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Sunday the 11th
Time: 7:30pm – 9 pm
Website: https://lastbookstorela.com/#events
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