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Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2020 – Online Fiction Event
Join the 25th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas, postponed from April 2020, and offered virtually during October and November. A total of 25 literary events will take place from October 18- November 13, and tickets are FREE!
Today’s program features a discussion between Pulitzer Prize winning author Ayad Akhtar and bestselling author Reza Aslan, who will discuss Akhtar’s new book, Hometown Elegies: This novel blends fact and fiction to tell an epicstory of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, at its heart this is the story of a father, a son, and the country they call home.
Ayad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright, whose work has been published and performed in over two dozen languages. He is the winner of numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Junk, and an award in literature form the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Hometown Elegies is his latest novel.
Reza Aslan (Interviewer) is a renowned writer, commentator, and professor, Emmy-nominated producer, and scholar of religions. He is the author of three bestselling books, including, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth.
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Monday the 20th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Vroman’s Live: Christina Hammonds Reed & The Black Kids via Vroman’s – Crowdcast Online YA Event
Join author Chrisitna Hammonds Reed, in conversation with Liara Tamani, to discuss her new YA novel, The Black Kids.
Christina Hammonds Reed, in conversation with Liara Tamani, will discuss her YA novel, The Black Kids, the story of how Ashley Bennett and her friends’ charmed senior year of high school is upended one afternoon in April, 1992 Los Angeles, when four LAPD officers are given an aquittal after beating Rodney King half to death. Suddenly Ashley’s not just one of the girls. She’s one of the black kids.
NOTE: Details available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Monday the 19th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://vromansbookstore.com/event/vromans-live-christina-hammonds-reed-wtih-liara-tamani
Simon Goodman & Orpheus Clock via Sherman Oaks Branch Library. LAPL – Online Event
Author Simon Goodman presents and discusses his book, Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family’s Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis. He will discuss his personal journey and the discovery of the family’s remarkable history. His grandparents, the Gutmanns, were one of the most powerful banking dynasties in Europe, but their artwork was confiscated and his grandparents perished in concentration camps. After his father died, he inherited the family papers, and unraveling the mystery became his life’s work.
Where: Sherman Oaks Library, LAPL – Zoom Online (see site)
Date: Monday the 19th
Time: 6:15pm – 7:45 pm
Address: LAPL – Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/evening-author-simon-goodman
Eileen Myles & For Now via Skylight Books – Online Event
Join author, poet, and writer Eileen Myles to their newest book, For Now, a raucous meditation and intimate glimpse into creativity’s immediacy. With erudition and wit, Myles recounts the early years of an awakening writer, revealing the nature of writing as presence in time.
This book describes time’s “optic quality” as being what enables writing in the first place—as attention, as devotion as excess. For Now is a candid record of the creative process from one of our most beloved artists.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Skylight Books – Online event
Date: Monday the 19th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-eileen-myles-discusses-their-new-book-now
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 19th
Time: 7:30pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Coffee Time Book Club & The Lying Life of Adults via Pages Online Event
The Coffee Time Book Club, led by Linda McLoughlin Figel, tends to read new release literary fiction, and the selection for this meeting is The Lying Life of Adults, by Elena Ferrante.
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed, so check website for details.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Zoom Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 20th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: Pages Bookstore – Online Event
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/coffee-time-book-club-virtual-meeting-4
Writing White Fragility: An Editorial Discussion via Electric Literature – Zoom Online Event
Brandon Taylor, author of the Booker Prize finalist Real Life and senior editorof Recommended Reading, talks to Ross Feeler about “Parisian Honeymoon,”a story about a man who discovers that his new wife is a bigot. They will discuss their editing process, and how to write anti-racist stories with racist characters without being morally didactic. Q&A will follow.
Where: Electric Literature – Online Event (see site for further details)
Date: Tuesday the 20th
Time: 3 pm – 4 pm PST
Address: Electric Literature – Online event
Website: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/wixpzg6t or contact Halimah Marcus, halimah@electricliterature.com
Middle Grade Book Club & Thirteens via Pages Online Kids and Teens Event
The Middle Grade Book Club, led by Pam, reads new releases of middle grade fiction, and the selection for this meeting is done by voting prior to the meeting. This month’s selection is Thirteens, by Kate Alice Marshall..
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed, so check website for details.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Zoom Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 20th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Pages Bookstore – Online Event
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/middle-grade-book-club-virtual-meeting-4
Peter Framton and Cameron Crowe & Do You Feel like I Do? Exclusive Launch at Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author, guitarist, and musician Peter Framton and filmmaker Cameron Crowe to hear them discuss the memoir, Do You Feel Like I Do?
This memoir is the incredible story of Framton’s resilient life and career as told in his own words, from his early stardom to his iconic musical connections, through his musical collaborative work and enduring friendships.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 20th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Vroman’s Live: Angie Bullaro & Breaking the Ice via Vroman’s – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Angie Bullaro, in conversation with athlete Manon Rheaume, to discuss her new book, Breaking the Ice: The True Story of the First Woman to Play in the NHL..
Angie Bullaro, in conversation with athlete Manon Rheaume, will discuss the inspiring true story of the first and only woman to play a game in the National Hockey League. This is the story of one girl’s courage, determination, and love for the sport.
NOTE: Details event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 20th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://vromansbookstore.com/event/vromans-live-angie-bullaro-and-manon-rheaume
Sandra Tsing Loh & The Madwoman and the Roomba via UCLA Semel Institute – Zoom Online Event
Join author Sandra Tsing Loh, in conversation with Susan Brookheimer, PhD, to discuss her pre-pandemic book, The Madwoman and the Roomba: My Year of Domestic Mayhem
Loh’s witty new book chronicles the indignities, hilarities, and unexpected joys of life in the so-called golden years, and captures the marvels and ludicrous realities of modern life, the humor and unexpected joys, and the demands of mid-life work, motherhood, friendship and romance.
NOTE: Details available at website.
Where: UCLA Live – Zoom Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 20th
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: UCLA – Zoom event
Website: https://www.https://www.facebook.com/events/1581605052001593
Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2020 – Online Fiction Event
Join the 25th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas, postponed from April 2020, and offered virtually during October and November. A total of 25 literary events will take place from October 18- November 13, and tickets are FREE!
Today’s program features a USC panel on Politics, entitled; People Have the Power? Electoral Politics and Democracy. Moderated by former political strategist and speechwriter Bob Shrum, author of the memoir No Excuses: Confessions of a Serial Campaigner (2007), the panel also includes:
Jane Junn is a professor of political science and gender studies at USC.
John G. Matsusaa is an expert on direct democracy, government finance, corporate finance, and corporate governance, and his most recent book is Let the People Rule: How Direct Democracy Can Meet the Challenge of Populism (2020).
Paul Adler is currently Harold Quinton Chair of Business Policy and Professor at USC, and before coming to USC in 1991, he was affiliated with Barnard College, Harvard Business School, and Stanford’s School of Engineering. He now serves as President of USC’s Academic Senate, and is the author of The 99 Percent Econo%my: How Democratic Socialism Can Overcome the Crises of Capitali$m.
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Tuesday the 20th
Time: 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Nancy Boyarsky & Bill Boyarsky & The Entitled, Volume 5 via Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Nancy Boyarsky, in conversation with author Bill Boyarsky, to hear them discuss her mystery novel, The Entitled, Volume 5.
This book is the latest Nicole Graves mystery, and is about Abigail Fletcher, a 17 year-old in study abroad program at the prestigious Kings’ College in London, who is charged with the murder of her boyfriend. This is Nicole’s first solo case abroad as a private detective, and it is far more deadly than she anticipated.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 20th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://booksoup.com/event/nancy-boyarsky-conversation-bill-boyarsky-discusses-entitled-volume-5
Vroman’s Live & Tattered Cover: W. Bruce Cameron & A Dog’s Perfect Christmas via Vroman’s – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author W. Bruce Cameron, with his dog Tucker, in conversation with Gary Goldtsein, to discuss his new book, A Dog’s Perfect Christmas.
This is the author’s newest holiday novel, again written from the dog’s perspective. There will be a moderated video and Q&A at the end.
NOTE: Details event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 20th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://vromansbookstore.com/event/bruce-cameron
David Davis & Wheels of Courage via Beverly Hills Public Library – Online event
Join us for an evening with author David Davis, to discuss his book, Wheels of Courage, an important story about WWII veterans and their great courage and ability to rise above their afflictions through their athleticism, discovering rehabilitation through sports and wheelchair basketball.
Registration is required: email reference @beverlyhills.org or call: (310) 288-2244.
Where: Beverly Hills Public Library – Zoom Online ticketed event (RSVP at site)
Date: Tuesday the 20th
Time: 6pm – 8 PM
Address: Beverly Hills Public Library – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/352146586006516
Jessica Abughattas, with Jeremy Radin & Olivia Gatwood, & Strip via Skylight Books – Online Event
Join poet and author Jessica Abughattas, in conversation with Jerremy Raidn & Olivia Gatwood, to discuss her new poetry collection, Strip.
This book is the winner of the 2020 Etel Adrian Poetry Prize, a captivating debut about desire and dispossession and that tireless poetic metaphor—the body. Audacious and clear-eyed, plainspoken and brassy, these poems are songs that break free from confinement as they span the globe form Hollywood to Palestine.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Skylight Books – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 20th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online event
Virtual Book Discussion & The Blossom and the Firefly via South Pasadena Public Library – Online event
The library series One City, Many Stories: Exploring Common Ground presents a Virtual Book Discussion hosted by South Pasadena Public Library online, to discuss the book, The Blossom and the Firefly, by Sherrie L. Smith. This book is set in Japan in 1945 and follows two teen friends during the final days of World War II.
Registration is required: www.southpasadenaca.gov/register. Teens and adults are encouraged to read the book and to attend.
Where: South Pasadena Public Library – Zoom Online ticketed event (register at site)
Date: Tuesday the 20th
Time: 7pm
Address: South Pasadena Library – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/365263481306365
Sandra Cisneros, in Conversation with John Freeman, via & Freeman’s To Love via Women & Children First on Crowdcast – Online event CHECK DATE!
Join us for a virtual event online, to hear author Sandra Cisneros and John Freeman in celebration of the latest issue of Freeman’s, themed to love. Cisneros’ poems are some of the finest contemporary writings on all kinds of love, and this latest issue of Freeman’s features a brand new poem by her, alongside new work by Louise Erdrich, Haruki Murakami, and others. They discuss: How do we speak about passion when language is being turned into weapons? How do you write a love poem in the dark?
Where: Alltime – Crowdcast Online ticketed event (register at site)
Date: Tuesday the 20th
Time: 7pm
Address: Crowdcast – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/625743888138484
AfroFuturism Book Club with Tyree Boyd-Pates & Rosewater – Online Event
The AfroFuturism Book Club, led by Tyree Boyd-Pates, explores a forward-looking movement that spans art, music, theory, everything in new fiction, and the selection for this meeting is Rosewater, by Tade Thompson. This book is set in 2066, and a Nigerian detective investigates a mysterious illness that is killing his fellow psychics.
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed, so check website for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Zoom Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 20th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: The Last Bookstore – Online Event
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Feeding the Dragon Signing with Chris Fenton – In-Person Event (face coverings required)
Author and industry trailblazer Chris Fenton will be signing copies of his book, Feeding the Dragon: Inside the Trillion Dollar Dilemma Facing Hollywood, the NBA, & American Business.
NOTE: Check website for details.
Where: The Comic Bug, Manhattan Beach – In-Person event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 21st
Time: 3 pm – 6 pm
Address: The Comic Bug – 1807 Manhattan Beach, Manhattan Beach, CA 90277
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/152479225150583
Cory Doctorow, with Bethany C. Morrow & Tochi Onyebuchi, & Attack Surface via Skylight Books – Online Event
Join author Cory Doctorow, in conversation with Bethany C. Morrow & Tochi Onyebuchi, to discuss his new novel, Attack Surface. The author will be speaking on a different topic at each event, where he will be joined by esteemed guests.
This is a stand-alone novel set in the world of New York Times bestsellers Little Brother and Homeland. Most days, Masha Maximow was sure she’d chosen the winning side. As a counterterrorism wizard for a transnational cybersecurity firm, she made the hacks that allowed repressive regimes to spy on dissidents, and manipulate their every move Just for fun, she sometimes used her mad skills to help those same troublemakers evade detection, if their cause was just. But when it hits close to home, and her efforts are directed at her and her friends and family, she can no longer compartmentalize the damage. Whatever she does, someone will get hurt.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Skylight Books – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 21st
Time: 5 pm PST
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-cory-doctorow-bethany-c-morrow-tochi-onyebuchi
David Leavitt & Shelter in Place via Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Event
Join author David Leavitt, to hear him discuss his new novel, Shelter in Place, a comic portrait of the moths immediately following the 2016 election, and a meditation on the unreliable appetites by which both our public and private lives are shaped.
The story in this novel is about the invidious ways in which political upheaval can undermine the most seemingly impregnable foundations of our lives, and is also a comic look at the so-called shelter industry.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 21st
Time: 5pm – 6 pm
Address: Chevalier’s – Online event
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/david-leavitt
Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2020 – Online Politics Event
Join the 25th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas, postponed from April 2020, and offered virtually during October and November. A total of 25 literary events will take place from October 18- November 13, and tickets are FREE!
Today’s program features California Politics and a discussion between The Honorable Jerry Brown and Jim Newton, author of new book, Man of Tomorrow: They will be in conversation with interviewer and LA Times journalist Gustavo Arellano in a virtual event.
Jerry Brown is the iconoclastic former governor of California, presidential candidate and mayor of Oakland, and he will join former editor-at-large of the LA Times, Jim Newton, to discuss his storied life in politics and the new book, Man of Tomorrow: The Relentless Life of Jerry Brown.
Bookseller: Vroman’s Bookstore (limited number of bookplates available)
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Wednesday the 21st
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Jacqueline Stolos, with Catie Disabato, & Edendale via Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Jacqueline Stolos, in conversation with Catie Disabato, to discuss her eco-horror debut, Edendale..
In northeast Los Angeles, wildfires rage and coyotes stalk the neighborhood streets. The wind blows heavy with smoke, and inside a rented bungalow on hilly Lemoyne Street, the air grows heavy with something else. This book explores the ways rape culture can permeate relationships of all kinds, making us examine our agency in our own lives and the world at large.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 21st
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://booksoup.com/event/jacquelyn-stolos-conversation-catie-disabato-discusses-edendale
LiveTalks LA: Matthew McConaughey, with John Grisham & Greenlights – Online Event
Author and academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey, in conversation with bestselling author John Grisham, will present his unconventional new memoir, Greenlights.
McConnaughey will discuss his many endeavors, including his foundation for students, his work with the University of Texas and the City of Austin, as owner of the major league soccer club Austin FC, and his business affiliations. He refers to this book as “a love letter to life.”
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: Wednesday the 21st
Time: 6 pm – 7:15 pmPST
Address: LiveTalks LA – Online Event
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/mcconaughey/
Feminist Book Club with Julia Callahan & MEAN – Online Event
The Feminist Book Club, led by Julia Callahan, explores everything in feminist literature, and the selection for this meeting is MEAN, by Myriam Gurba. This book is the author’s witty memoir, about mixed race and sexual identity, violence, and trauma..
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed, so check website for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Zoom Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 21st
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: The Last Bookstore – Online Event
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
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 21st
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Patricia Smith Reading at the (Virtual) Ugly Mug via Zoom Online
Join Two Idiots Peddling Poetry’s online version of The Ugly Mug series, to welcome poet and writer Patricia Smith, who is the acclaimed author of eight books of poetry. Her collection Incendiary Art was the winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, and the 2018 NAACP Image Award, in addition to being a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize. She also has written for the Golden Shovel anthology, New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks, and edited the crime fiction anthology Staten Island Noir.
NOTE: See site for further details.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 21st
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/335875837505461
Thursday Morning Book Club via CSUDH – Check site to confirm if Online Event
Join Osher Lifelong Learning Institute – OLLI at CSUDH for the monthly Thursday Morning Book Club. This month’s selection is The Whistler, by John Grisham.
Where: CSUDH – OLLI event (register at site)
Date: Thursday the 22nd
Time: 10 am–11 am
Address: CSUDH – OLLI event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/372640400425757/
Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2020 – Online Politics Event
Join the 25th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas, postponed from April 2020, and offered virtually during October and November. A total of 25 literary events will take place from October 18- November 13, and tickets are FREE!
Today’s program features an Immigration Panel and a discussion between author Roberto Lovato and interviewer and LA Times journalist Esmeralda Bermudez, too discuss his book Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas, co-presented with LA Times en Espanol.
Lovato’s memoir is an urgent, no-holds-barred tale of gang life, guerilla warfare, intergenerational trauma, and interconnected violence between the U.S. and El Salvador. Bermudez was born in El Salvador and raised in the U.S., and writes on the lives of Latinos in Los Angeles.
Bookseller: Pages Bookstore (limited number of bookplates available)
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Thursday the 22nd
Time: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Swords Out: A Dungeons & Dragons Murder Mystery via Electric Literature – Online Event
John Danielle, Daniel Lavery, Amber Sparks, & R. Eric Thomas joinDungeonMaster Matt Lubchansky, to play a classic role-playing game with a literary twist: Swords Out.
Where: Electric Literature – Online Event (see site for further details)
Date: Thursday the 22nd
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm PST
Address: Electric Literature – Online event
Website: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/4kb6vp3f or contact Jess Zimmerman, jess@electricliterature.com
Kamala Pulignadla, with Hyungee Nicole Kim, & Zigzags via Skylight Books – Online YA Event
Join author Kamala Puligandla, in conversation with Hyungee Nicole Kim, to discuss her new novel, Zigzags.
When Aneesha returns to Chicago for the summer, all she wants to do is write and carouse with friends. But keeping old friends is complicated, and this is a tender story about community as family, in a charming debut novel.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Skylight Books – Online event
Date: Thursday the 22nd
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-kamala-puligandla-reads-her-debut-novel-zigzags
One City Many Stories Book Discussion & The Butterfly Effect via South Pasadena Public Library – Zoom Online Event
Join South Pasadena Public Library for a lively online discussion event: The Butterfly Effect: Insects and the Making of the Modern World, by author Edward D. Melillo, and led by a SPPL librarian.
To register go to: www.southpasadenaca.gov/register.
Where: South Pasadena Public Library – Online event (register at site)
Date: Thursday the 22nd
Time: 7 pm–8:30 pm
Address: South Pasadena Public Library – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/250860289486220
CSULB ASI Fall 2020: Poet’s Lounge Open Mic via CSULB – Zoom Online Event
Join CSULB ASI for the Fall 2020 Poet’s Lounge Event to share your art or simply sit back and listen. We welcome poetry, rap, short stories, or other forms of free spoken word.
Where: CSULB – Online event (register at site)
Date: Thursday the 22nd Time: 7:30 pm– 9 pm
Address: CSULB – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/369061347832722/
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 23rd
Time: 11 am – 11:30 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/1253937688278362
Friendly Teen Poetry Club via Thousand Oaks Library – Online Teen Event
Join the Friendly Teen Poetry Club, where we will: write poetry based on prompts; share our own poetry and favorite poems by other authors; inspire each other by sharing favorite song lyrics; read aloud with open mic poetry; learn about new novels in verse; and meet other poets!
Register: https://libcal.tolibrary.org/calendar/teens
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 23rd
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/3282483061835903/
Floasis Presents: Battle of the Poets 2020 – Virtual Poetry Slam– Online Event
Calling all spoken word poets from all over the country to defend your skills in a virtual poetry bout. Attention poetry lovers! Slam Season is officially here!
Register: https://libcal.tolibrary.org/calendar/teens
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Hosted by CONCRETE ROSE – Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 23rd
Time: 6 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/898384544021222
Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2020 – Online Crime Fiction Event
Join the 25th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas, postponed from April 2020, and offered virtually during October and November. A total of 25 literary events will take place from October 18- November 13, and tickets are FREE!
Today’s program is Crime Fiction: The Dark Side, and it features a discussion between authors Attica Locke, Ivy Pocholda, Rachel Howell Hall, and moderator and LA Times reporter James Queally.
Panelists will discuss their latest releases that center on real world issues: fighting social norms, injustice and racial tension in our society, and female empowerment, all against a backdrop of riveting storytelling.
Attica Locke is the author of the Highway 99 series, and her latest book is Heaven, My Home.
Ivy Pochoda is the author of The Art of Disappearing, Visitation Street, and Wonder Valley, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist.
Rachel Howzell Hall is the author of the Lou Norton series, the stand-alone thriller They All Fall Down, and co-author of The Good Sister with James Patterson. She is the senior development officer for Donor Relations Department at Cedars Sinai, and is a mentor in the AWP Writer-to-Writer Program.
Bookseller: Small World Bookstore (limited number of bookplates available)
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Friday the 23rd
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Vroman’s Live: Leigh Bardugo & Ninth House via Vroman’s – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Leigh Bardugo to hear her discuss the paperback release of her adult debut, Ninth House.
This is a mesmerizing tale of power, privilege, and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite. Alex Stern is an unlikely member of the Yale freshman class given a second chance to attend her prestigious university on a full ride after she survives an unsolved multiple homicide. She is tasked by her mysterious benefactors to monitor the activities of Yale’s secret societies, but their occult and magical acts are more sinister than any paranoid imagination might conceive!
NOTE: Details event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Friday the 23rd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://vromansbookstore.com/event/vromans-live-leigh-bardugo
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 9 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 24th
Time: 10 am – 1 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/670785633798185/
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 24th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://facebook.com/events/1129862607389180/
Book Fest Fall 2020: A Thrilling Online Bookish Adventure
We’re back and bringing the thrills and chills for our second BookFest! It’s a great opportunity to discover new authors, get personal with some of your favorites, and be a part of some spine-chilling surprises to break you out of the pandemic blues.
NOTE: See website for further details and to RSVP.
Where: Books that Make You & Black Chateau – online
Date: Saturday the 24th – Sunday the 25th
Time: 10 am – Saturday – 6 pm Sunday
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://facebook.com/events/3319660134789209
Lit Crawl LA 2020: Women Who Submit; Sassing the System via LA Central Library- Online Event
Join Lit Crawl LA to hear a panel of readers from Women Who Submit, titled Sassing the System: Stories of Protest and Resistance, and featuring:
Laura Warrell is a writer of short stories, essays and book reviews, and is an instructor at various literary institutions. Her work has been published in LARB, Huffington Post, The Rumpus, Salon, The Boston Globe, Boston Herald and Boston Phoenix, as well as international publications. She is an assistant fiction editor at Upstreet Magazine.
traci kato-kiriyama is founder of a spoken word supergroup, Zero3, creator of Tuesday Night Café, and a stunning writer and performer. She is an actor, writer, author, educator and art-community organizer—often all at once.
Fei Hernandez is an Inglewood-raised immigrant trens non-binary visual artist, writer, and healer, an Advisory Board Member of Gender Justice Los Angeles, and co-founder of ING Fellowship which provides mentorship for Inglewood youth.
Cybele Garcia Kohel is a writer living and writing in Pasadena, but born in Puerto Rico. She writes poetry, short stories, and essays, in a loud voice from the margins. Her recent publications are in the Women Who Submit anthology, Accolades (2020), and the Altadena Literary Review (2020).
As Audre Lorde once said, “When we are silent, we are still afraid, so it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive.”
Where: .Lit Crawl LA 2020 – Online event (see site)
Date: Saturday the 24th
Time: 1 pm – 1:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Lit Crawl LA 2020: UCAL Wordcommandos: Tactical Literature via LA Central Library- Online Event
Join Lit Crawl LA to hear a panel of readers from UCLA Wordcommandos: Tactical Literature: Veterans Writing for Equality, and featuring:
Anja Akstin
Peter Triveas
Nicholas Cormier
Avery Chatmon
Gary C. Smith
and Robert Morgan Fisher, moderator.
With an emphasis on gender/racial/age diversity, as well as branch and years of service, this team will present insight into the craft and business of writing with a tactical eye towards advancing onto a full-time profession.
Where: .Lit Crawl LA 2020 – Online event (see site)
Date: Saturday the 24th
Time: 1:30 pm – 2 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Brian Sonia-Wallace’s Drive-In Book Launch & The Poetry of Strangers via Beyond Baroque Short Wave Radio Event
Join the drive-in Book Launch of Brian Sonia-Wallace’s new book, The Poetry of Strangers, and hear readings from the comfort of your car by four additional readers/guests, including:
DeShaun Ingram
Linda Ravenswood
Diego de los Andes
Sammy Ginsberg
NOTE: Site for further details.
Where: Short Wave Radio, Brooks Avenue, Venice – via Beyond Baroque
Date: Saturday the 24th
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Address: Hosted by Beyond Baroque: a Drive-in Book Launch at Brooks Avenue, Venice, CA
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/717834329080997
One City Many Stories Virtual Book Discussion & New People via South Pasadena Public Library – Online Event
Join our Virtual Book Discussion event to share our reading of New People: A Novel, by author Danzy Senna, led by a librarian. This 2017 book is an unconventional and disturbing novel about race.
Where: South Pasadena Public Library – Online event (Registration required at site)
Date: Saturday the 24th
Time: 2 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/625705924808511
Lit Crawl LA 2020: Los Angeles Poet Society: The Beat of Los Angeles: Celebrating the Earth’s Many Voices via LA Central Library- Online Event
Join Lit Crawl LA to hear a panel of readers from Los Angeles Poet Society: The Beat of Los Angeles: Celebrating the Earth’s Many Voices, and featuring:
Jessica M. Wilson is a Navajo Indian Poet form East Los Angeles, and is creator of the Los Angeles Poet Society. She is a third generation Beatnik, a Beat poet, author, event organizer and instructor of creative writing workshops.
Juan Cardenas is a musician and writer, and his debut book of poetry is titled The Beat of an Immigrant Chicano, published by Swan World Press.
Jeffrey Martin is a poet and writer, traveler, event moderator and interviewer. and is the author of several books of poetry.
Iris De Anda is a witer, activist, and practitioner of the healing arts, and is the author of the collection. Codeswitch: Fires From Mi Corazon.
Jeffrey James N/A
Erika Ayon is the aythor of the debut collection, Orange Lady, published by World Stage Press. She has taught poetry to middle and high school students across Los Angeles
The heartbeat is universal, the Earth beat we feel, but so we really hear? This event presents spoken word on top of drumbeats and flute, to amplify our voices.
Where: .Lit Crawl LA 2020 – Online event (see site)
Date: Saturday the 24th
Time: 2:15 pm – 2:45 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Lit Crawl LA 2020: Los Angeles Poet Society: Reading It Froward via LA Central Library- Online Event
Join Lit Crawl LA to hear a panel of readers on Reading it Forward: LA Literary Icons Deliver Brave New Writing from Santa Monica Review, and featuring:
Yxta Mya Murray is a American Latina novelist and professor at at LMU School of Law. She teaches at Loyola Law School and her writing has appeared In Buzz, Glamour, and ZYZZYVA. Her novel The Conquest won the 1999 Whiting Award.
Michael Jaime-Becerra grew up in El Monte, and teaches creative writing at UC Riverside. He is the author of the short story collection Every Night is Ladies Night, the novel This Time Tomorrow, and contributor to the anthology East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte.
Victoria Patterson is the author of the novels The Peerless Four and This Vacant Paradise, and her story collection, Drift, was a finalist for the California Book Award. She teaches at Antioch University’s MFA Program.
Dana Johnson is an associate professor at USC, and is the author of In the Not Quite Dark, Elsewhere California and Break Any Woman Down.
and Andrew Tonkovich, editorofSanta Monica Review, ismoderator.
This roster of readers emphasizes diversity and creativity in crisis, trademarks of the literary journal Santa Monica Review, with some of some of the best prose in the country.
Where: .Lit Crawl LA 2020 – Online event (see site)
Date: Saturday the 24th
Time: 3 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Saturday Afternoon Poetry Workshop with Mark Lipman via Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a Print & Internet Publishing Workshop led by activist, poet and writer Mark Lipman.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Santa Catalina Library, Zoom Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 24th
Time: 3 pm– 5 pm
Address: Zoom online
Website; https://www.saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com
Lit Crawl LA 2020: Exposition Review: Unlocking LA: Creativity in the Time of Coronavirus via LA Central Library- Online Event
Join Lit Crawl LA to hear a panel of readers on Exposition Review: Unlocking LA: Creativity in the Time of Coronavirus, and featuring:
Chloe Martinez is a poet and writer, three-time Pushcart nominee, book reviewer for RHINO and a reader for The Adroit. She is also Program Coordinator for the Center for Creative Writing and Public Discourse at Claremont McKenna College, as well as Lecturer in Religious Studies.
Lori Yeghiayan Friedman is a writer and essayist, whose work has been published in HuffPost, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and elsewhere.
Dare Williams is an HIV positive poet, artist, activist, and is currently working on a poetry collection confronting the erasure of queer culture.
and Annlee Ellingson, staff writer for LA Biz, ismoderator.
This roster of readers will present personal stories that span poetry and prose, writers from our 2020 issue, Vol V “Act/Break” and will include audience participation.
Where: .Lit Crawl LA 2020 – Online event (see site)
Date: Saturday the 24th
Time: 3:30 pm – 4 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Dark Ink Anniversary Reading Featured Guests via Zoom Online
Join Moon Tide Press at Zoom online as we celebrate two years since the release of live poetry form poets who contributed their hauntingly beautiful pieces for this collection: Dark Ink: A Poetry Anthology Inspired by Horror.
Bring those spooky and supportive spirits, dress up if you’d like, and celebrate a wonderful night!
Final list of performers: TBA.
Where: Moon Tide Press – Zoom Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 24th
Time: 4 pm – 7 pm
Address: Zoom online
Website; https://www.facebook.com/events/324734202162371
Lit Crawl LA 2020: Tertuia Literary Salon via LA Central Library- Online Event
Join Lit Crawl LA to hear a panel of readers from Tertulia Literary Salon: In the Driver’s Seat without a Road: Travel Narratives for the Sheltered in Place, and featuring:
Pam Alster is a former TV writer, a contributing blogger to 85broads.com and BlogHer.com, and lives in LA with her family.
Jeff Darter is a non-fiction writer and author of a variety of self-help books.
Gwyn Drischell N/A
Ron Gutierrez is director of Tertulia, an independent Los Angeles-based literary salon he started in 2011, and serves on the organizing committee of Lit Craw LA.
This roster of readers will show us places where there are no masks, protections or other consolations.
Where: .Lit Crawl LA 2020 – Online event (see site)
Date: Saturday the 24th
Time: 4 pm – 4:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
“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 24th
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Address: See website link for details.
Website: https://www.faceebook.com/events/538958430115353/
Red Hen Press – 26th Benefit Champagne Luncheonvia RHP Zoom Online Event
Join Red Hen Press for a virtual 26th Anniversary Luncheon which will showcase performances from local students, a silent auction, and readings by presenting authors: Allison Joseph, Aimee Liu, and Maurice Carlos Ruffin.
NOTE: Tickets start at $50 and information is available at site.
Where: Red Hen Press – Online event (Registration required at site)
Date: Sunday the 25th
Time: 12 pm – 1:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/982139372271653
Luke Geiger & Songs of Isolation via Pasadena Central Library – Online Event
Join the Azure Lorica Book Club for the official book release of Songs of Isolation, by author Luke Geiger.
Where: book.azurelorica.org. – Online event (Registration required at site)
Date: Sunday the 25th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/611128826152563
Fourth Sundays Poetry Readings: Lynne Thompson & Genevieve Kaplan – Online Event
Lynne Thompson is the author of Start with a Small Guitar, Beg No Pardon, and most recently, Fretwork, selected for the Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize, 2019. She serves on the Boards of Scripps College, Cave Canem, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Genevieve Kaplan is the author of (aviary) (Veliz Books, 2020), In the Ice House (Red Hen Press, 2011), and three chapbooks. A new chapbook, I exit the hallway and turn right, is forthcoming from above.ground press. She edits the Toad Press International chapbook series, publishing contemporary translations of poetry and prose.
NOTE: Event is available to register and watch, and book itself may be purchased at site link.
Where: LiveTalks LA – YouTube and Facebook Online event (see site)
Date: Sunday the 25th
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: Claremont Library – Online Event
Website: https://facebook.com/events/3223994541016726
LiveTalks LA: Bill Nye & Gregory Mone & Bill Nye’s Great Big World of Science– Online Event
Author, TV host, and scientist Bill Nye, in conversation with author and science journalist Gregory Mone, present his everything-you-need-to-know book, Bill Nye’s Great Big World of Science. Nye is on a mission to help kids to understand and appreciate the science that makes our world work. Featuring a wide range of subjects, this profusely illustrated book covers the basic principles of each science, key discoveries, recent advances, and the problems that science still needs to solve for our Earth. Nye and Mone interviewed numerous specialists for this book, whose insights are discussed throughout. Also included are experiments kids can do themselves.
NOTE: Event is available to register and watch, and book itself may be purchased when you RSVP at site link.
Where: LiveTalks LA – YouTube and Facebook Online event (see site)
Date: Sunday the 25th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: LiveTalks LA – Online Event
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/bill-nye
Ekphrastric with the Classics: a Workshop with Jessica M. Wilson via Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
This is an Ekphrastic Writing Workshop series led by Jessica M. Wilson which will focus on art history while relaying our investigation through poetry. We will use poetry as a way to tell the tale of some of the best visual art throughout history. It’s art history meets poetry meets YOUR poetic eye!
Jessica M. Wilson is an author and Beat poet, founder of the LA Poets Society, leader of the Sunday Open Reading event series at Beyond Baroque, and writing workshop instructor.
NOTE: Details and costs for this ticketed series of workshops are available at site.
Where: Beyond Baroque online (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Sunday October 25th through Sunday November 29th
Time: 4 pm –6 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
The Thing in the Labyrinth Book Club with Katherine E. McGee & Lovecraft Country – Online Event
The Thing in the Labyrinth Book Club, led by Katherine E. McGee, is a horror book club, and the selection for this meeting is Lovecraft Country, by Matt Ruff. In this book an African American veteran takes a road trip through segregationist America, looking for family roots, and ends up deep…in Lovecraft Country.
Author Matt Ruff and actor David Stanbra of the TV show will be crashing our Zoom!
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed, so check website for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Zoom Online event (see site)
Date: Sunday the 25th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: The Last Bookstore – Online Event
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
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