Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Immigrant Writing Workshop with Restless Books via Studio City Public Library – Online Event
Join us for a Immigrant Writing Workshop with Restless Books. Each workshop has three sessions, so please register for only one. Join us for an offering of the Innovation Lab’s ”Belonging” series, taught by Restless Books publisher Ilan Stavans, which is designed to help immigrant communities develop their voices, self-confidence, and self-esteem. See details at site.
To register for this event, email Emilie at eaaronson@lapl.org
Where: Studio City Public Library – Online Event (see site for further details)
Date: Monday the 9th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Simi Valley Public Library – Online event
Suzanne Roberts & Bad Tourist via Chevalier’s Bookstore- Online Event
Join us to hear author Suzanne Roberts, in conversation with author Sholeh Wolpe, discuss her book, Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love & Travel.
This book is both a memoir in travel essays and an anti-guidebook. It takes us across four continents to fifteen countries, showing us what not to do when traveling.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Event (see site for further details)
Date: Monday the 9th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Chevalier’s – Online event
Website: https://chevaliersbooks.com/suzanne-roberts
Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2020 – Online Current Interest Panel 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 Current Interest Panel: What’s Next? The State of the American Economy, and a discussion about: How are corrupt systems organized and how have they shaped our government today? How are ordinary Americans affected by the rich and powerful ones who don’t play by the same rules? What can we do to close the racial wealth gap? Journalists and scholars listed below, Baradaran, Chayes and Taub, will discuss these issues with LA Times DC Bureau Chief Kimbriell Kelly moderating. The panel features:
Mehrsa Baradaran is a law professor specializing in banking law at UC Irvine. Her book How the Other Half Banks has received national and international media coverage. She has spoken and written about her experience as a refugee from Iran and pointed out she was one of the “immigrants and refugees from ‘terrorist countries’ that would soon be banned by executive order from coming [to America]”.
Sarah Chayes spent a decade as a journalist on the ground in Afghanistan and found that corruption may lie at the root of the most significant crises the world over, and her book, Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security, won the 2016 LA Times Book Prize. In On Corruption in America—And What Is at Stake she applies the same unflinching research and reasoning to her own Beloved country.
Jennifer Taub is a legal scholar and advocate whose writing focusses on “follow the money” matters—promoting transparency and opposing corruption She has appeared before Congress and on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and CNN’s Newsroom, and is now a professor of law at the Western New England University School of Law. She is the author of the book Big Dirty Money.
Bookseller: {pages} A Bookstore (limited quantity of bookplates available now)
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Monday the 9th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Scott O’Connor, with Maira Hummel, & Zero Zone via Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Scott O’Connor, in conversation with author Maria Hummel, to hear them discuss his book, Zero Zone.
In Los Angeles, in the late 1970s, Jess Shepard was an installation artist creating environments that focus on light and space, leading to intense sensory experiences for visitors to her work. A run of critically lauded projects peaked with Zero Zone, But when a small group of travelers experienced a religious awakening inside Zero Zone, they instigated a violent showdown which became a media sensation, and the aftermath followed Jess. Three years later, a survivor of Zero Zone comes looking for Jess, who must now face her fears.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Monday the 9th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://booksoup.com/event/scott-o’connor-conversation-maria-hummel-discusses-zero-zone
David Byrne, with Maira Kalman & American Utopia via LiveTalks-LA – Online Event
Join author and former Talking Heads frontman, David Byrne, in conversation with co-author, illustrator and artist, Maira Kalman, to hear them discuss their book, American Utopia.
In words and art this book celebrates the connections between us all. The Spike Lee film adaptation of the Broadway hit American Utopia airs on HBO in fall 2020. This book captures the spirit of the show, and is a joyful collaboration between old friends, and captures the small moments, expressions, gestures and interactions that offer a portrait of daily life and coexistence.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: LiveTalks-LA – Online Event
Date: Monday the 9th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/byrnekalman/
Vroman’s Live: Merrill Markoe, with Susan Orlean, & We Saw Scenery via Vroman’s – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Merrill Markoe, in conversation with author Susan Orlean, to hear them discuss her book, We Saw Scenery.
In her first ever graphic memoir, four-time Emmy winner Merrill Markoe unearths her treasured diaries to illustrate the hilarious story of her teen years and how she learned her secret power was her humor. As he charts the divide between adolescence and adulthood, she questions and berates her younger self, revealing how much is opaque in those young years.
NOTE: Details event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Monday the 9th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://vromansbookstore.com/event/merrill-markoe
Lynell George, with Louise Steinman, & A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky – Online Event
Author and journalist Lynell George, in conversation with author Louise Steinman, will discuss her new work, A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler.
In this book the author offers a blueprint for a creative life from the perspective of award-winning science fiction writer and “MacArthur Genius” Octavia E. Butler. It is a collection of ideas about how to be in the world, and the creative process as a much larger canvas, including creating a life with what little you have, and stretching it to shape and make yourself. There’s been a great resurgence in Butler’s work, and this book offers a spark of inspiration and a slice of her creative life.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: Skylight Books – Online event (see site)
Date: Monday the 9th
Time: 6:30 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Ficcion en Espanol Book Club & Escenario de Guerra via The Last Bookstore – Online Event
The Ficcion en Espanol Book Club, led by Dan Lopez, reads fiction in Spanish, and this month will read and discuss the book Escenario de Guerra, by Chilean author Andrea Jeftanovic, the story of post-war trauma in the lives of a family having fled the Balkins for South America—which has its own history of violence.
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed, so see details at site.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online Event (see site for link)
Date: Monday the 9th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: The Last Bookstore – Zoom Online
Website: https://lastbookstorela.com/#events
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 9th
Time: 7:30pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Adult Fiction Book Club via Kaufman – Brentwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
The Adult Fiction Book Club will read and discuss the selection for November, Crossing to Safety, by renowned prize-winning author Wallace Stegner.
Where: Brentwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 10th
Time: 1 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/fiction-book-club-0
Expressions LA Virtual Poetry Readings & Open Mic via Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
The Expressions LA Poetry Readings & Open Mic features readings by guest poets and a Poetry Open Mic event.
Email Emily at eaaronson@lapl.org for instructions on how to join the program.
Where: Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 10th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-night
Poetry Open Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
The Westwood Branch Mic via Library Poetry Open Mic is hosted by Wyatt Underwood, and you are invited to share a poem you wrote or a poem you love on Zoom!
Email the host at wwood@lapl.org for instructions on how to join the program.
Where: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 10th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-open-mic-0
The Big Read: The Round House via John C. Fremont Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
The Big Read celebrates Native American Heritage Month by selecting the prize-winning book The Round House, by Louise Erdrich for reading and discussion. Readers are transported back to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota to unravel a mystery that galvanizes and transforms an entire community. The library’s book club welcomes back USC Professor Margaret Russell, to lead the discussion..
Email the host at jcfrmt@lapl.org for participation details.Where: John C. Fremont Branch Library, LAPL – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 10th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/big-read-round-house-louise-erdrich
Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2020 – Online Current Interest Panel 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 Current Interest Panel on the Economy in which Alaina Morgan will moderate a discussion titled: Seeking Freedom: Race, Gender, and Citizenship. Featured panelists include:
Alaina Morgan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at USC. Trained as a historian of the African Diaspora, her research focuses on the historic utility of religion, in particular Islam, in racial liberation and anti-colonial movements of the mid- to late-twentieth century Atlantic world.
Sam Erman is a Professor of Law at the USC Gould School of Law. He is the author of Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire.
Ariela Julie Gross is the John B. & Alice R, Sharp Professor of Law and History, and the Co-Director of the Center for Law, History, and Culture at USC. She is the author of What Blood Won’t Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America (2008) and Double Character: Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom (2000). She is working on a new book about the memory of slavery in law, politics, and culture today, Becoming Free, Becoming Black.
Kristen L. Zaleski, PhD, LCSW is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work and Director of Forensic Mental Health at the Peck Human Rights Clinic. Her research includes gender-based violence and its connection to human rights within American society. Her new book, Women’s Journey to Empowerment in the 21st Century, offers a global view into the patriarchal attitudes that shape cultural practices that oppress women and continue to take form in the modern era.
Bookseller: Bookshop
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Tuesday the 10th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Dr. Paul Koudounaris, with Caitlin Doughty, & A Cat’s Tale via Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Dr. Paul Koudounaris, in conversation with author Caitlin Doughty, to hear them discuss his book, A Cat’s Tale: A Journey Through Feline History.
This book is a one-of-a-kind chronicle that introduces readers to the illustrious ancestors of their closest companions, and shows that cats know exactly what they’re doing.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 10th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Vroman’s Live: Fred Guttenberg, with Bradley Whitford, & Find the Helpers via Vroman’s – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Fred Guttenberg, in conversation with actor Bradley Whitford, to hear them discuss his book, Find the Helpers: What 9/11 and Parkland Taught Me about Recovery, Purpose, and Hope.
The author’s favorite lines of wisdom come from Mr. (Fred) Rogers: “Always look for the helpers… because .., you’ll know there’s hope.” This story is about the author’s journey since the death of his daughter Jaime in the Parkland, Florida school shootings.
NOTE: Details event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 10th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://vromansbookstore.com/event/fred-guttenberg-with-bradley-whitford
Agnes Barinsky, with Chana Porter, & Sasha Masha – Online YA Event
Author Agnes Barinsky, in conversation with author Chana Porter, will discuss her debut YA novel, Sasha Masha.
In this coming-of-age story, Alex grapples with his identity and why he feels like he is in the wrong body. Two new friends, Tracy and Andre, each separately help him in his journey to find what is missing in his life.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: Skylight Books – Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 10th
Time: 6:30 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Tuesday Night Project & This Is Not Just the Asian Night via The Ford– Online Event
The Ford Presents Tuesday Night Project: This Is Not Just the Asian Night: State of LA!
This is a showcase of the longest-running Asian American open mic night in the country, and it features co-hosts and curators Sean Miura and traci-kato-kiriyama, and includes artists:
Johnny Concordia, Taz Ahmed, Jenny Yang, ARIANNA LADY BASCO, Eddy Gana, Stephanie Sajor, and Christian Tran.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: The Ford – Facebook online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 10th
Time: 6:30 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Book of the Month Club & A Mind Spread Out on the Ground via Bel Canto Books, Long Beach – Online Event
To commemorate Native American Heritage Month, our online book club (BOTM) will read and discuss the book A Mind Spread Out On The Ground, by Alicia Elliott.
The Mohawk phrase for depression can roughly be translated to “a mind spread out on the ground.” In this work the author explores how apt this description is for the ongoing effects of personal, intergenerational, and colonial traumas so many Native people have experienced, including herself.
Register in advance at the link at the site.
Where: Bel Canto Books – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 10th
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.meetup.com/Bel-Canto-Books-Book-Lovers-Meetup-Group/events/274154374/
Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2020 – Online Audible Panel 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 Audible Panel in which educator and author Ilyasah Shabazz (Growing Up X) and editor Abby West discuss Audible’s unabridged audio edition of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, performed by Laurence Fishburne.
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Wednesday the 11th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Chris Stedman, with Joel Kim Booster, & IRL– Online Event
Author Chris Stedman, in conversation with author Joel Kim Booster, will discuss his new memoir, IRL: Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives.
This memoir is a personal and searing exploration of authenticity in the digital age, and how we can be truly understood in our increasingly online lives. The author suggests we have myriad ways to become more fully human, and should embrace realness in all its uncertainty, both online and off.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: Skylight Books – Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 11th
Time: 6:30 am
Address: Online event (see site)
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 11th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Kelly Grace Thomas 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 Kelly Grace Thomas, who is the winner of the 2017 Neil Postman Award for Metaphor from Rattle, among other awards, and a Best of the Next nominee for her first full-length collection, Boat Burned, released by Yes Yes Books in January 2020.
She currently works to bring poetry to underserved youth as the advisor for Get Lit – Words Ignite, and the co-author of Words Ignite: Explore, Write, and Perform, Classic and Spoken Word Poetry (Literary Riot). This textbook and curriculum is currently taught in LAUSD using poetry to target English intervention skills. She is also a screenwriter, and is working on a debut novel, a YA thriller titled “Only 10.001.” She lives in the bay area with her husband.
NOTE: See site for further details.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 11th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2828345747449236/
In Conversation: Ming Smith, Brendan Embser, Yxta Murray & Namwali Serpell via CAAM – Online Event
Join CAAM and a panel of artists to celebrate the forthcoming book, Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph, which brings together four decades of Smith’s work, celebrating her poetic and experimental images as icons of 20th century African America life. One of the greatest artist-photographers working today, her work brings together a trademark lyricism, distinctively blurred silhouettes, dynamic street scenes, and deep devotion to theater, music, poetry, and dance.
Join us for a conversation featuring Smith, monograph editor Brendan Embser of Aperture, and contributors Yxta Murray and Namwali Serpell as they explore the monograph and her work.
NOTE: See site for further details.
Where: California African American Museum – Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Thursday the 12th
Time: 5 pm – 6:30 pm
Address: Online event
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 Fiction Panel featuring two award-winning writers and distinguished authors in conversation:
Marilyn Robinson is the author of the novels Lila, Home, Gilead (winner of the Pulitzer Prize),and Housekeeping, and the nonfiction books, When I Was a Child I Read Books, Mother Country, The Death of Adam, and Absence of Mind. She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her latest book is titled Jack, and is a fourth book in the Gilead “series.”
Hector Tobar is the interviewer and the author of five books published in 15 languages, including the critically acclaimed bestseller Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine and the Miracle that Set Them Free. His new novel is The Last Great Road Bum. He is also a contributing writer for the New York Times and was part of the Pulitzer Prize winning journalism by the LA Times.
Bookseller: {pages} a Bookstore
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Thursday the 12th
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Michael Grecco & Punk, Post Punk, New Wave via Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Michael Grecco to hear him discuss his new book, Punk, Post Punk, New Wave: Onstage. Backstage, In Your Face, 1978-1991.
In the late 70s, punk rock music began to evolve into the post-punk and new wave movements that dominated until the early 90s. Photographer and filmmaker Michael Grecco was in the thick of things, and documented in color and black and white the raw energy, sweat, and antics that characterized the alternative music of the time.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Thursday the12th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Vroman’s Live: Kiese Laymon, with Minda Honey, & How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others: Essays via Vroman’s – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Kiese Laymon, in conversation with Minda Honey, to discuss his new book, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others: Essays.
This is a revised edition with thirteen essays, including six new to this edition and seven from the original edition, “…with a voice that is courageous, honest, loving, and singularly beautiful,” according to NPR.
NOTE: Details event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Thursday the 12th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://vromansbookstore.com/event/kiese-laymon-with-minda-honey
Author Talk: Judy Bebelaar & And Then They Were Gone via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Zoom Online
Join the Westwood Branch Library online to hear author Judy Bebelaar discuss the book, And Then They Were Gone: Teenagers of Peoples Temple from High School to Jonestown. She and Ron Cabral collaborated on this book to tell the tragic story of the students who became victims of Jim Jones.
NOTE: See site for further details. To receive a Zoom invitation, please contact wwood@lapl.org.
Where: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 12th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/author-talk-judy-bebelaar-0
Dormant Rose Poetry Writing Workshop via North Hollywood Regional Library, LAPL – Zoom Online
Join the Dormant Rose Workshop to study a different poet each month via Zoom. Write poetry based on that poet’s style. This program is held on the 2nd Thursday of every month.
NOTE: To RSVP and receive a Zoom invitation, please call (213) 228-7430 at least 72 hours prior to the event.
Where: North Hollywood Regional Library, LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 12th
Time: 6:15 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/dormant-rose-poetry-writing-workshop-0
Marlee Grace, with Erica Chidi, & Getting to Center – Online Event
Author Agnes Barinsky, in conversation with author Erica Chidi, will discuss her new book, Getting to Center.
From the author of How to Not Always Be Working, comes an approachable and practical guide to leaning into the unknown even though it feels like everything around—and inside—us is in flux. This book offers a guide to cultivating resources to help us pivot between multiple demands, so we can replenish and depend on ourselves.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: Skylight Books – Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 12th
Time: 6:30 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.com/event/live-crowdcast-marlee-grace-discusses-her-new-book-getting-center-erica-chidi
Frames & Stanzas: A Film & Poetry Workshop with Lynne Sachs via Beyond Baroque – Online Event
Join a writing workshop led by Lynne Sachs, Frames & Stanzas: a Film & Poetry workshop in which we will bridge poetry with cinema images , and over the course of three weeks, write several poems in conjunction around this public/private convergence of still/moving images with written/spoken words. Sachs is a filmmaker and poet whose work ranges from short experimental films, to essay films to hybrid live performances.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Zoom online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 14th (and Fri., Nov. 29, Thurs. Dec. 3, Wed., Dec. 2)
Time: 11 am – 3 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/intensive_workshops.html
Susanna Moore & Miss Aluminum: A Memoir via Chevalier’s Bookstore- Online Event
Join us to hear author Susanna Moore, in conversation with writer Eva Vives, discuss her memoir, Miss Aluminum: A Memoir.
This book is a revealing and refreshing memoir of Hollywood in the 1970s. The author left Hawaii after the death of her mother at age 17, and worked in many jobs during her career. But beneath her fairy tale surface was a girl determined to understand the circumstances of her mother’s death. Now she is the author of several novels and no-fiction works, and lives in Hawaii and teaches at Princeton University.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Event (see site for further details)
Date: Thursday the 12th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Chevalier’s – Online event
Website: https://chevaliersbooks.com/susanna-moore
Local Live(s): A Long Beach Storytelling Event via Long Beach Post – Eventbrite Online
Join a virtual gathering of journalists and strangers you wish you knew. True stories told by the people who lived them. Tickets are $5 and available at the site link.
NOTE: To RSVP and receive an invitation, please go to Eventbrite at site link.
Where: The Long Beach Post – Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 12th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/dormant-rose-poetry-writing-workshop-0
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 13th
Time: 11 am – 11:30 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/361188051818349
Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2020 – Online Science/Health 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 Science/Health Panel on Science & Medicine: Looking at the Coronavirus and Pandemics, featuring moderator Soumya Karlamangla leading the conversation:
Nicholas Christakis is a sociologist and physician known for his research on social networks and on the socioeconomic, biosocial, and evolutionary determinants of behavior, health, and longevity. He is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University and has published three books, His latest book is Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live (2020).
Deborah Olivia Mackenzie is a Canadian who studied physiology and pharmacology in Canada and the U.S,, then worked for the British scientific magazine New Scientist for 36 years, based in Western Europe. As a reporter she specialized for the past 20 years in infectious disease and the science of complexity and social organization. Her new book is titled, Covid-19: The Pandemic That Never Should Have Happened, and How to Stop the Next One.
Sonia Shah is a science journalist and the prize-winning author of Pandemic: Tracking Contagions from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She has written for many journals and her TED talk, “Three Reasons We Still Haven’t Gotten Rid of Malaria,” has been viewed by more than one million people. She lives in Baltimore.
Bookseller: Small World Books
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Friday the 13th
Time: 12 pm – 1 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Simi Valley Library Pop-Up via Rancho Simi Community Park – In-Person Park Event
Please join the Simi Valley Library at their Pop-Up event at Rancho Simi Community Park- from 2pm to 4pm, with books, movies, and more for all ages! You can come by and sign up for a library card, check out items, or just say HI!
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: In-Person Park event (see site)
Date: Friday the 13th
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Address: 1765 Royal Ave., Simi Valley, CA 93065
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/2860670260889162
Fall Poetry Series: Part 3 via The Muckenthaler Cultural Center– Online Event
Join us for the third in a free, three=part workshop series with Artist-in-Residence Katherine Zaun. Inspired by Robin Coste-Lewis’ stunning poem “On the Road to Sri Bhavaneshwari” and Mary Oliver’s evocative observations of the quiet occurrences in nature, these meetings will explore our own relationships with nature.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: The Muckenthaler Center- Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 13th
Time: 3 pm – 4 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/726246851297954
Riva Lehrer, with Joey Soloway, & Golem Girl via Book Soup- Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Riva Lehrer, in conversation with Joey Soloway, to hear her discuss her memoir, Golem Girl.
In this book the author asks: What do we sacrifice in the pursuit of normalcy? What becomes possible when we embrace monstrosity? Can we envision a world that sees impossible creatures?
In 1958, amongst the children born with spina bifida is Riva Lehrer. At the time most such children are not expected to survive, but her parents and doctors are determined to fix her, sending a message over and over again that she is broken. Things change when she is an adult, and invite to join a group of artist who are building a disability culture, and insisting that disability is is an opportunity for creativity and resistance.. Emboldened, she asks to paint their portraits, and transforms the way she sees herself, others and the world. This memoir invites us to stretch ourselves as well.
NOTE: Details event link available at website.
Where: Book Soup– Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Friday the 13th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/events/riva-lehrer-conversation-joey-solloway-discusses-golem-girl-memoir
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 14th
Time: 10 am – 1 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/670785633795185/
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 14th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://facebook.com/events/1129862607389180/
Workshop via LAwritersgroup.com – Online Event
Get words on the page and meet other writers in this online creative writing workshop.
NOT E: See website for online link and further details. Tickets are available via Eventbrite.
Where: Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 14th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://facebook.com/events/1129862694055838/
Western Edge Writers: Self-Directed Writing via Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Writers and aspiring writers join us via Eagle Rock Branch Library’s Zoom site for a group discussion that supports writing endeavors of all genres: fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and memoirs.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 14th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/western-edge-writers-0
The Journey into the Interior: A Poetry Workshop with Neil Aitken via Beyond Baroque – Online Event
Join a writing workshop led by Neil Aitken, The Journey into the Interior, a generative workshop in which will write in response to a series of prompts and exercises to explore and excavate the complex mythic landscapes we hold within ourselves. Aitken is the author of two books of poetry, and is the winner of the 2007 Philip Levine Prize.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Zoom online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 14th
Time: 11 am – 3 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/intensive_workshops.html
Men of Mystery & Raven Award Conference via Creating Conversation Bookstore & Author Events – Online Event
The Raven Award–Winning annual conference typically celebrates men in mystery at a conference venue with 30 or more mystery authors and keynote speakers. This year the event is switched to an online format. Three amazing speakers and a wonderful moderator have been scheduled of 2020.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Eventbrite online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 14th
Time: 12 pm – 1 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/481494065768367/
Pinata Book Tour Live Reading by Three Poets via LibroMobile – Online Event
Join host LibroMobile virtually, for the online Pinata Book Tour reading, featuring:
Alan Chazaro is the author of This Is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album (Black Lawrence Press, 2019) and Pinata Theory (Black Lawrence Press, 2020). He is currently a creative writing adjunct professor in the Bay area, and co-founding editor at Headfake, an online basketball zine.
Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Fellow, and the author of the debut collection The Fire Eaters (Texas Review Press, 2020). He is currently a guest editor for Frontier and Palette Poetry. He has two hometowns: Buena Park, CA and Norwalk, CA.
Michael Torres was born in Pomona and spent time as a graffiti artist. His debut collection of poems, An Incomplete List of Names (Beacon Press, 2020) was selected by Raquel Salas for the National Poetry Series. He is a n Assistant Professor in the MFA program at Minnesota State University, Nankato, and a teaching artist with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.
NOTE: See website for further details and to RSVP.
Where: LibroMobile – IG Live online
Date: Saturday the 14th
Time: 3 pm – 4 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/677793986506044
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Deep Critique Writing Workshop via Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a 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 14th
Time: 3 pm– 5 pm
Address: Zoom online
Website; https://www.saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com
Quartet Reading: Fall Edition via Moon Tide Press – Online Zoom Event
Join Moon Tide Press online for the next Quartet Reading in our series, to hear two of our current authors and two of our future authors:
Hanalena Fennel is the author of LETTERS TO THE LEADER.
Dania Ayah Alkhouli is the author of CONTORTIONIST TONGUE.
Rob Sturma is the author of the 2021 release, HEAD V. HEART.
Kelly Gray is the author of the 2021 release, INSTRUCTIONS FOR AN ANIMAL BODY.
Where: Moon Tide Press – Zoom Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 14th
Time: 4pm– 6 pm
Address: Zoom online
Website; https://www.facebook.com/events1657469014435553 /
ZYZZYVA Reading: The L.A. Issue Group Reading via Skylight Crowdcast Online Event
Join us for a group reading to celebrate the launch of ZYZZYVA’s LA Issue.
This journal was founded in 1985 in San Francisco with the goal of publishing a superb literary journal shining a spot on West Coast poets, writers, and artists from a wide range of backgrounds, many of whom might be overlooked by established publications.
Guest readers include: Douglas Manuel, Michelle Latiolais, Victoria Chang, David Hernandez, Henry Lara, andspecialguest L. Marvin Metz.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: Skylight Books – Online event (see site)
Date: Saturday the 14th
Time: 6:30 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://dola.com/events/2020/11/14/live-on-crowdcast-zyzzyva-the-l-a-issue-group-reading-ticket
Writing Workshop with Sara Borjas via The Poetry Lab – Online Event
Join The Poetry Lab for a one-time visiting author workshop with Sara Borjas, poet and author of the debut prize-winning collection, Heart Like Window, Mouth Like a Cliff.
Where: The Poetry Lab – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Sunday the 15th
Time: 1 pm– 3:30 pm
Address: Zoom online
Website; https://thepoetrylab.comupcoming-events
Ekphrastric with the Classics: a Workshop with Jessica M. Wilson via Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
This is the 3rd meeting of 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 Poet 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 the 15th (through Sunday November 29th)
Time: 4 pm –6 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Claudia Rankine, with Terrence Hayes, & Just Us via ALOUD Online Event
How do we talk about race in America? Two of our country’s most award-winning poets and unflinching voices on racism will join ALOUD for their first public event together. Rankine’s previous work, Citizen: An American Lyric, won the National Book critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her newest book, Just Us: An American Conversation, invites readers to engage with what is said and not said about whiteness, privilege, prejudice, and bias as our public and private lives intersect.
Terrance Hayes’s most recent book, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, was written in response to the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency.
The discussion will be moderated by poet and essayist Dawn Lundy Martin.
NOTE: Advanced ticket purchases are required.
Where: ALOUD Reading Series, LAPL – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Sunday the 15th
Time: 5 pm– 6 pm
Address: Zoom online
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