Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
South to Freedom & Professor Alice L. Baumgartner via Huntington-USC Institute – Zoom Online Event
Join us as Professor Alice L. Baumgartner, in conversation with historian Albert Brossard and Institute Director William Deverell, discusses her new book, South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War.
Where: Huntington-USC Institute – Zoom & Facebook Online Event (see site for further details)
Date: Monday the 16th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Huntington-USC Institute – Zoom Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1706751046153577
Estaban Castillo & Chicano Eats via LA Plaza de Cutura y Artes – Online Event
Join us as Estaban Castillo demonstrates how to make Toasted Coconut Horchata, a refreshing drink that is dairy-free and vegan. As the author of the award-winning food blog and cookbook Chicano Eats, Estaban Castillo explores his bicultural identity as a Chicano through stories and food.
Where: LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes – Zoom & Facebook Online Event (see site for further details)
Date: Monday the 16th
Time: 3 pm
Address: LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1674230949422591
Teen National Novel Writing Month via Central Library, LAPL – Online Teen Event
Join the NaNoWriMo Teen Writers Group for a Genre Author Panel as we explore different parts of a novel, plotting& characterization, editing your novel, and how publishing works. We will learn from a panel of genre fiction authors!
Please email teens@lapl.org if you have any questions.
Where: Central Library, LAPL – Online event
Date: Monday the 16th
Time: 3 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/nanowrimo-teen-writers-group-genre-author-panel
Alan R. Parker & Pathway to Indigenous Nation Sovereignty via UCLA American Indisan Studies Center – Online Event
Join UCLA AISC and NALSA as Native alumnus Alan R. Parker discusses his book, Pathway to Indigenous Nation Sovereignty. This book devotes a chapter to each of the major legislative achievements that the author was involved with during his time as Chief Counsel and then Staff Director to the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.
Where: UCLA American Indian Studies Center – Eventbrite Online Event (see site for further details)
Date: Monday the 16th
Time: 3 pm
Address: UCLA – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1066603813854329
Tween Book Club via Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL – Online Tween Event
Kids ages 9 to 12 are invited to a monthly book club! Discuss a book selected for reading that month, often by recommendations, over Zoom. This month’s book is One Day and One Amazing Morning on Orange Street, by Joanne Rocklin. Download an ebook from Hoopla or request a book or CD from your nearest branch library. contact jmurphy @lapl.org to join. All books can be requested for pick-up at a Library near you.
Where: Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL – Online event
Date: Monday the 16th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/tween-book-club-3
The Big Read Book Club: The Round House via Sun Valley Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join the Big Read Book Club Group for a discussion of the National Book Award-winning book, The Round House, by Louise Erdrich, the 2nd in her Justice trilogy, and a brilliant chronicler of Native American life. This book is an exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks revenge for a crime that upends and forever transforms his family.
Where: Central Library, LAPL – Online event
Date: Monday the 16th
Time: 4:45 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/big-read-book-club-0
Lynell George, with Judith Lewis, & A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky via Chevalier’s Bookstore- Online Event
Join us to hear author Lynell George, in conversation with jounalist Judith Lewis, discuss her book, A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler.
This book is not only a look at the world of the acclaimed science-fiction author Butler and her story, it’s a collection of ideas about how to look, listen, breathe — and how to be— as a process of shaping oneself as a full human being, with what skills and abilities one may have at hand.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Event (see site for further details)
Date: Monday the 16th
Time:7 pm
Address: Chevalier’s – Online event
Website: https://chevaliersbooks.com/lynell-george
Main Library Book Group: There There via Santa Monica Main Library – Online Event
Join the Santa Monica Main Library Book Group for a discussion of the book, There There, by Tommy Orange. this is a book that takes place at the Big Oakland Powwow, where 12 Native Americans come for different reasons. It is a multi-generational, relentlessly paced story about violence and recovery, hope and loss, identity and power, dislocation and communion, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people.
Where: Main Library, SMPL – Online event
Date: Monday the 16th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online event
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=32815
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 16th
Time: 7:30pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
One Campus One Book Event: Always Running & Luis Rodriguez via CSULA – Online Event
Join the CSULA One Campus One Read event, hosted by the Cal State Los Angeles Library, to hear a Conversation with author, publisher, and Poet laureate Emeritus of L.A. Luis J. Rodriguez about his acclaimed book, Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.
The author believes poetry is soul talk, a prophetic act, a powerful means to enlarge one’s presence in the world. There will be a Q&A session with the Cal State community, and a recording will be available online for one week following the event online, for those who are unable to attend in real time.
Where: Cal State Los Angeles – Zoom Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 17th
Time: 3 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook/events/788796761955250
John Densmore, with Special Guest, & The Seekers via Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join musician and author John Densmore to hear him discuss his book, The Seekers: Meetings with Remarkable Musicians (and Other Artists).
This book by the iconic drummer of The Doors investigates the author’s own relationship with creativity and explores the meaning of artistry with other artists and performers in a compelling and spellbinding memoir. He digs deep into his own process and draws upon his privileged access to his fellow artists in order to explore the origins of creativity itself. Ultimately it might be a away for readers to identify and ignite their own creative spark, and light their own fire.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 17th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Jim Gray & Talking to GOATS via Pages Bookstore – Online Event
Award-winning sportscaster and author Jim Gray, in conversation with L.A. Times executive editor Chris Stone, will discuss his book, Talking to GOATS: The Moments You Remember and the Stories You Never Heard,
This is a riveting, insightful memoir that explores the author’s career and the inside stories of the famous legends he has covered. His interviews and anecdotes are memorable and introduce us to many transformative moments and events in sports history and entertainment.
Register in advance at the link at the site.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 17th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Halley Sutton & The Lady Upstairs via Pages Bookstore – Online Event
Author Halley Sutton will celebrate her debut mystery book, The Lady Upstairs.
This is a debut mystery and a store favorite of Elizabeth Little. It channels the best LA noir, telling the story of Jo, whose job is blackmailing the most lecherous men in Los Angeles. She needs the money to pay off a debt, but when she learns one of her targets is murdered, she decides to take on one more sting. This debut thriller crackles with wit and an unforgettable feminist voice, while offering a surprising take on female revenge.
Register in advance at the link at the site.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 17th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Vroman’s Live: David Yoon, with Jake Choi, & Super Fake Love Song via Vroman’s – Crowdcast Online YA Event
Join author David Yoon, in conversation with actor Jake Choi, to hear them discuss his YA book, Super Fake Love Song
In this book Sunny Dae—self-proclaimed total nerd—meets Cirrus Soh and can’t believe how cool and confident she is. So when Cirrus mistakes Sonny’s older brother’s bedroom, with its electric guitars and rock posters—for his own, he “accidentally” winds up telling her he;s the front man for a rock band. Soon he’s knee deep in the lie, and when he starts to come clean, Cirrus asks to see them play sometime. Now there’s only one thing to do: fake it till you make it.
NOTE: Details event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 17th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://vromansbookstore.com/event/david-yoon-with-jake-choi
Brian Sonia-Wallace: Rattlecast #67 & The Poetry of Strangers via Rattle = Online Event
Join author Brian Sonia-Wallace discuss his book, The Poetry of Strangers. In 2012 the author set up a typewriter on the street with a sign that said “Poetry Store” and accidentally started his business: RENT Poet.
Over 5,000 poems later, his book of essays, The Poetry of Strangers, profiles the communities he’s written for across America, and the desperate desire to be listened to and heard that he found. Excepts have been published in numerous journals, he has been the official Writer-in-Residence for unlikely clients, and he has just been named Poet Laureate of West Hollywood.
NOTE: Details & event link available at website.
Where: YouTube Live – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 17th
Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: YouTube Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1618550101684231
Object Lessons: A Group Readingvia Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things, and it’s published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic. Featured readings include:
Gin, by Shonna Milliken Humphrey: Gin tastes like Christmas to some and rotten pine chips to others, but nearly everyone familiar with the spirit holds immediate gin nostalgia.
Signature, by Hunter Dukes: Why do we sign our names? How can a squiggle both enslave and liberate? What other kinds of beliefs and longings justify our signing practices?
Fat, by Hanne Blank: Whatever the stereotype, fat is never sedentary: its definitions, identities, and meanings are manifold and in constant motion. It is a metaphor, a possession, a symptom, both intellectual and carnal, and blurs many boundaries.
Office, by Sheila Liming: This is a narration of the cultural history of a place that has arguably been the primary site of labor in the postmodern economy.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: Skylight Books – Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 17th
Time: 6:30 am
Address: Online event (see site)
AfroFuturism Book Club & Ring Shout via The Last Bookstore – Online Event
The AfroFuturism Book Club, led by Tyree Boyd-Pates, spans art, music, theory (mostly fiction) and this month will read and discuss the book Ring Shout, by author P. Djeli Clark, an alternate history of early 20th century battels against the KKK…and their demonic cohorts.
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed, so see details at site.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online Event (see site for link)
Date: Tuesday the 17th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: The Last Bookstore – Zoom Online
Website: https://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Coffee Time Book Club & Homeland Elegies via Pages Bookstore – Online Event
The Coffee Time Book Club reads new release literary fiction, and the selection for discussion this month is Homeland Elegies: A Novel, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ayad Akhtar, which focuses on the issues of an immigrant Muslim father and son. The two search for belonging—in post-Trump America, and with each other.
This meeting will be facilitated by Linda McLoughlin Figel.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: Pages Books – Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 18th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/coffee-time-book-club-virtual-meeting-5
Adult Book Club & Where the Crawdads Sing via Granada Hills Branch Library, LAPL – Zoom Online Event
Join the Granada Hills Branch Library via Zoom to read and discuss this month’s selection, Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: Granada Hills Branch Library, LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 18th
Time: 1:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-discussion
Tweens Read Graphic Novels Book Club & New Kid via Northridge Branch Library, LAPL – Zoom Online Tweens Event
Tweens (ages 9-12) may join the Northridge Branch Library via Zoom to read and explore graphic novels. This month’s selection is New Kid, by Jerry Kraft.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: Northridge Branch Library, LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 18th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/tweens-read-graphic-novels-book-club
Middle Grade Book Club & The Canyon’s Edge via Pages Bookstore – Online Event
The Middle Grade Book Club reads new release middle grade fiction, and the selection for discussion this month is The Canyon’s Edge, by author Dusti Bowling. When Nora and her father are exploring a slot canyon in the Arizona desert, a random shooting changes their family forever, and she must begin a struggle for survival.
This meeting will be facilitated by Pam.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: Pages Books – Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 18th
Time: 4:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/middle-grade-book-club-virtual-meeting-5
Telling UCLA’s Stories: An Inside Look at the University Archives via UCLA Library – Online Event
Go deeper into UCLA’s history with University Archivist Heather Briston, who will share stories of people, places, and events that you’ve never heard of before. Attendees will also be able to ask questions of Library Special Collections Director Athena Jackson.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: UCLA Library – Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 18th
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1692177364293848
Hector Tobar & The Last Great Road Bum via UCI Illuminations & UCI English Department – Online Event
Join us to hear UCI Professor of Literary Journalism and acclaimed prize-winning author Hector Tobar, who will discuss his new novel, The Last Great Road Bum. This book is a thriller that tells the true story of Joe Sanderson, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador. Joe was, in his words, a “road bum,” an adventurer and a storyteller, belonging to no place, people, or set of ideas. He was born into a life of middle class contentment in Urbana, Illinois and died in fighting guerrillas in Central America. A decade ago the author came into possession of the personal writings of Joe Sanderson, and set out to write the Great American novel Joe aspired to write, but which instead was mirrored in the life he led. His life, as portrayed here, is a fascinating timely hybrid of fiction and nonfiction that only a master like Tobar could pull off.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: UCI Illuminations – Eventbrite Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 18th
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/382819939569655
Michael Riedel, with Tod Purdum, & Singular Sensation via Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Michael Riedel, in conversation with Tod Purdum, to hear him discuss his book, Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway.
This book chronicles the 1990s on Broadway, and the drama behind every mega-hit or shocking flop, from bitter feuds to the surprising collaborations, and the intrigue of a revolutionary era in the Theatre District.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 18th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Vroman’s Live: Mary Lea Carroll, with Lian Dolan, & Somehow Saints via Vroman’s – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Mary Lea Carroll, in conversation with author Lian Dolan (The Sweeney Sisters),to hear them discuss her book, Somehow Saints: More Travels in Search of the Saintly, the sequel to Saint Everywhere.
In this book the author continues her quest to learn from some quietly extraordinary women—and a man or two—who have changed the world. She travels to shrines and hometowns to learn about such amazing people as Saint Marie of Quebec, philanthropist-turned-saint Katherine Drexel of Philadelphia, Saint Brigid of Ireland, and more. She also connects with everyday heroes she encounters in her daily life, which inspires her own journey to be a better citizen of the world.
NOTE: Details event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 18th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://vromansbookstore.com/event/mary-lea-carroll-with-lian-dolan
The Best of Brevity Reading via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction is a collection of favorites from Brevity, one of the longest running and most popular online literary publications. The readers include:
Nicole Walker is the author of the collections The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet and Sustainability: A Love Story. Her nonfiction work includes Where the Tiny Things Are, Egg, Micrograms, Quench Your Thirst with Salt, and a book of poems, This Noisy Egg.
Ira Sukrungruang is the author of the memoirs Southside Buddhist, Talk That: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy, and the forthcoming The Jade World, the short story collection The Melting Season, and the poetry collection, In Thailand It Is Night.
Zoe Bossiere is co-editor of The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction. She is managing editor of Brevity and a podcast host for New Books Network’s Literature channel, among other endeavors.
Dinty W. Moore, co-editor of The Best of Brevity, is author of the memoir Between Panic and Desire, and is editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Nonfiction, among other books.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: Skylight Books – Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 18th
Time: 6:30 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Lynell George & A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky via LA Times Book Club – Online Event
Join us to hear author Lynell George, in conversation with Times reporter Julia Wick, discuss her book, A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler.
This book is an exploration of the legacy and prolific writing of science fiction author Octavia E. Butler, who was born in Pasadena and lived from 1947 to 2008, and it is based on her research at the Huntington Library’s Butler archives. It serves as both a look into Butler’s worlds and a guide to creating an authentic self and personal journey through a writing life.
Where: LA Times Book Club – Online Event (see site for further details & book giveaway)
Date: Wednesday the 18th
Time: 7 pm
Address: LA Times Book Club – Online event
Website: https://https://www.eventbrite.com/e/november-virtual-book-club-the-worlds-of-octavia-e-butler-wlynell-george-tickets-126329792811?aff=erelexpmlt or https://www.facebook.com/events/415293979631521
Montana Library Book Group & The Sisters – Santa Monica Library Online Event
Join the Montana Book Discussion Group to read and discuss Mary S, Lowell’s book, The Sisters, the much chronicled story of the Mitford sisters, and the many challenges faced and paths taken by them during World War II. Some follow the path of fascism and Hitler, while another killed herself when England and Germany went to war, and another spent over three years in prison during the war, while still another rebelled by becoming a Communist and later emigrated to America.
NOTE: Register for this program by emailing Stephanie.archer@smgov.net.
Where: SMPL Montana Branch Book Club – Online Event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 18th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: SMPL – Online event
Website: https://http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=33514
Feminist Book Club & Ring Shout via The Last Bookstore – Online Event
The Feminist Book Club, led by Julia Callahan, reads an intersectional variety of feminist lit—fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, etc.– and this month will read and discuss the book Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close, by authors Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman (of the Call Your Girlfriend podcast), who chronicle the history and philosophy of their friendship in this book.
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed, so see details at site.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online Event (see site for link)
Date: Wednesday the 18th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: The Last Bookstore – Zoom Online
Website: https://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 18th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
A.J. Odasso 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 A.J. Odasso, whose third-collection manuscript, Things Being What They Are, an earlier version of The Sting of It, was shortlisted for the 2017 Sexton Prize. Their second collection, The Dishonesty of Dreams, was released in 2014. Their debut collection, Lost Books, was nominated for the 2010 London new Poetry Award and was also a finalist for the 2010/2011 People’s Book Prize. Odasso’s poetry has appeared in a variety of publications, as well as three anthologies, and they serve as Senior Poetry Editor at Strange Horizons magazine.
NOTE: See site for further details.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 18th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/366064308146891/
Poet Astrid Reading & Book Launch of Through the Soil in My Skin via World Stage Press Online
Join World Stage Press to celebrate the book release and signing event for Poet Astrid’s collection, Through the Soil in my Skin, published by World Stage Press. This is her release party and it will be a virtual event available on Facebook and Instagram.
NOTE: See site for further details.
Where: Online event (register for tickets & Zoom link via Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 18th
Time: 8 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online event (pre-order book at worldstagepress.org link)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/385011642617553/
Toilet Lit: A World Toilet Day Open Mic with Brian Sonia-Wallace and Sammy Ginsberg – Online Event
In celebration of World Toilet Day, come read pomes and watch the premiere and the short film Porcelain Pilgrimage!
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: RENT Poet Eventbrite – Online Event (see details at site)
Date: Thursday the 19th
Time: 12pm – 2 pm
Address: RENT Poet – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/926425181101243
Cazzie David with Chrissy Teigen and Owen Thiele & No One Asked for This: Essays via Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Cazzie David, inconversation with Chrissy Teigen and Owen Thiele to hear her discuss her new book, No One Asked for This: Essays.
From writer Cazzie David comes a series of acerbic, darkly funny essays about misanthropy, social media, anxiety, relationships, and growing up in a wildly eccentric family. She chronicles her life’s most chaotic moments with wit, bleak humor, and a mega-dose of self-awareness. She is the creator, writer, and star of the web series Eighty-Sixed, and a columnist at Air Mail.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Thursday the19th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Social Justice Teen Book Club & New Kid via Baldwin Hills Branch Library, LAPL – Zoom Online Event
Our next Social Justice Teen Book Club discussion via Zoom will be on the book New Kid, by Jerry Craft. Please join us by sending an email to zzehdar@lapl.org for the link.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: Baldwin Hills Branch Library – Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 19th
Time: 4:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/social-justice-teen-book-club
Rachel Bloom & I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Rachel Bloom is a comedian, actress, writer and the author of the collection of personal essays, I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are.
In this exploration of what the author thinks makes her different, she comes to realize that a lot of people feel this way. This is a Laugh-out-loud collection, told in a unique voice, and is infinitely relatable.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: Skylight Books – Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
2020 LA Times Festival of Books: The Poetry Stage Redux Part I – Online Event
Beyond Baroque presents the first installment of The Poetry Stage Redux, a series of readings by nationally acclaimed poets from the Lis Angeles Times Festival of Books Poetry Stage. Featured readers for this date include:
Sara Borjas, Nickole Brown, Cyrus Cassells, Victoria Chang, Cathy Colman, Megan Fernandez, Jane Hirschfield, Jessica Jacobs, John Murillo, and Aimee Nezhukumatahil.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Beyond Baroque – Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 19th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/401307870895842
Book Club & Afterlfe via West Los Angeles Regional Library, LAPL – Zoom Online Event
Join the West Los Angeles Regional Library Book Club via Zoom to read and discuss this month’s selection, Afterlife, by Julia Alvarez.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: West Los Angeles Regional Library, LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 19th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-5
Vroman’s Live: Tom Zoellner, with Tod Goldberg, & The National Road via Vroman’s – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Todd Zoellner, in conversation with author Tod Goldberg, to discuss his new book, The National Road: Dispatches from a Changing America.
This is a nostalgic and probing, incisive and enraged, book of reflections on a nation divided by faith, politics, and shifting economies, but—more importantly—one united by a shared sense of ownership in the common land.
NOTE: Details event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Thursday the 19th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://vromansbookstore.com/event/tom-zoellner-with-tod-goldberg
Lalo Alcarez & Gustavo Arellano: Conversation & Fundraiser via The Cheech at Riverside Art Museum – Online Event
Join us to hear an In Conversation/En Dialogo fundraising event for the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum.
Lalo Alcarez is an award-winning visual/media artist and television/film writer, and has been chronicling the ascendancy of Latinos in the U.S. for over 25 years. He is creator of the comic strip La Cucaracha, seen in the Los Angeles Times and other papers nationwide, and is founder of POCHO, a leading Latino satire website. A prolific artist, he was a cartoonist for L.A. Weekly, and now creates for Andrew McMeel Syndication, Daily Koz, and others He is author of the forthcoming graphic history novel UNIDOS, and is a Hollywood consultant and producer.
Gustavo Arellano is a journalist and author based in Orange County, and a columnist for the Los Angeles Times. He previously worked at OC Weekly, where he was an investigative reporter and editor, and wrote the “Ask a Mexican” column. He is the author of Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for tickets and details.
Where: The Cheech, Riverside Art Museum – Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 19th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/821300015317756
Peter Bagge & The Complete Hate via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Peter Bagge, in conversation with Dana Gould, will discuss his new graphic novel, The Complete Hate.
In this virtual book launch, the author presents an archival collection of one of the bestselling alternative comic book series –arguably the Great American Grunge Novel—complete for the first time. The Complete Hate is a three-volume set that includes the original 1990-1998 30-issue run, the nine subsequent Hate Annuals, and many other related illustrations and ephemera.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: Skylight Books – Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 18th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
True Crime Book Club & Ring Shout via The Last Bookstore – Online Event
The True Crime Book Club, led by James Bartlett, reads an variety of literature that explores our dark side, and this month will read and discuss the book Butcher Baker: The True Account of an Alaskan Serial Killer, by authors Walter Gilmour & Leland E. Hale, which is the horrific story of serial killer Robert Hansen.
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed, so see details at site.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online Event (see site for link)
Date: Thursday the 19th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: The Last Bookstore – Zoom Online
Website: https://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Fall 2020 Virtual Poet’s Lounge Open Mic via CSU Long Beach ASI – Online Event
Join the 2020 Virtual Poet’s Lounge Open Mic night hosted by Beach Pride Events! Students are given the opportunity to showcase songs, rap, short stories, and other forms of free spoken word in a small and intimate environment. See site for details and Zoom link.
Where: CSULB ASI Event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 19th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: CSULB ASI (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/369061341166056/
Book Club & There There via North Hollywood Regional Library, LAPL – Online Event
Please join the NoHo Book Club twice a month to discuss a selected title and a book of your choice. New members are always welcome. This meeting’s selection is There There, by Tommy Orange.
RSVP to nohlwd@lapl.org at least two days in advance to receive the link.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: North Hollywood Regional Library, LAPL – Zoom online (see site)
Date: Friday the 20th
Time: 10 am
Address: Zoom Online (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/noho-book-club-discuss-book-your-choice
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 20th
Time: 11 am – 11:30 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/361188051818349
Mandarin Storytime via Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library – Online Kids Event
Please join Miss Anna for an all ages Mandarin storytime on Zoom! Hear stories, sing songs, and learn rhymes in Mandarin. Registration is required.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Monterey Park Bruggemeyer Library – Zoom online (see site)
Date: Friday the 20th
Time: 2 pm – 2:30 pm
Address: Zoom Online (see site)
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/3178948028899989
Your Author Series: Candice Iloh via LAPL YouTube channel or Facebook – Online Teen Event
Please join the LAPL online for our Author Series, to hear author Candice Iloh discuss her work. She is a first generation Nigerian American writer, teaching artist and youth educator, and has performed her work around the country. She is the author of her debut novel, Every Body Looking.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: LAPL online – Facebook or YouTube (see site)
Date: Friday the 20th
Time: 4 pm
Address: YouTube or Facebook – Online (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/ypur-author-series-candice-iloh
A Night of Poetry hosted by Mike “The Poet” Sonksen via Espresso Mi Cultura books, coffee, art – Online Zoom Event
Please join author, poet, essayist, educator and host Mike Sonksen for a Night of Poetry, featuring readings by new voices of poetry:
Alan Aquino is a published poet, writer, and CSUN professor, and his scholarship focuses on Asian Pacific American history, media, contemporary issues, pop culture, and literary arts.
F. Douglas Brown is an English teacher in Los Angeles, and is the author of: two poetry collections, Icon and Zero to Three; Begotten, a collaboration with Geoffrey Davis; and creator of the Sandra Bland series, un::fade::able.
Rocio Carlos is the author of Attendance, three chapbooks, as well as (The Other House).
traci kato-kiriyama is founding member of the spoken work supergroup Zero3, director/creator of Tuesday Nights Café open mic, and author of a forthcoming collection of poems.
Luivette Resto is a mother, teacher, poet and writer by way of Puerto Rico and the Bronx, and is the author of the collections Ascension and Unfinished Portrait.
Marcus Omari isfounder of Poetic Reform Party and a founding member of the San Diego Slam Poetry Team. He is a poetry performance workshop instructor and has many published and recorded works.
NOTE: See website link for details.
Where: Mi Espresso – Online Zoom event (see site)
Date: Friday the 20th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/291358438777721
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, 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 21st
Time: 9 am – 12 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/670785757128506/
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 21st
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://facebook.com/events/1129862687389172/
Book Club for Middle Grade Readers: Island of the Blue Dolphins via Brentwood & Palisades Branch Libraries, LAPL – Online Middle Grade Event
Join the Book Club for Middle Grade Readers to discuss the modern classis, Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O’Dell.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 21st
Time: 10:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-middle-grade-readers-island-blue-dolphins-scott-odell
Vroman’s Live: Anika Aldamuy Denise & A Girl Named Rosita via Vroman’s – Crowdcast Online Kids Event
Join author Anika Aldamuy Denise for a special storytime reading from her new book, A Girl Named Rosita: The Story of Rita Moreno: Actor, Singer, Dancer, Trialblazer!
This is a gorgeous picture book biography about young Rosita, who moved from Puerto Rico to the Mainland U.S. and eventually found the pinnacle of success, landing her iconic role in West Side Story and going on to win the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards in a long and varied career. She has recently appeared on the re-boot of One Day at a Time on TV.
NOTE: Details event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Saturday the 21st
Time: 11 am
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://vromansbookstore.com/event/anika-aldumuy-denise
Author Talk: Norma Mendoza-Denton, PhD & Language in the Trump Era – Online Zoom Event
Join Santa Monica Library to hear Dr. Mendoza-Denton’s discussion of her highly topical book, Language in the Trump Era, which reveals how Trump’s languages enlists supporters into his alternate reality. She will discuss how the mechanisms of language have widened social divisions.
Where: Santa Monica Public Library – Zoom Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 21st
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: Zoom online event
Website; https://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=33546
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Featured Readers & Open Mic via Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for readings by featured guests from Four Feathers Press:
Lynn Bornstein, Mark Fisher, Lorelei Kay & Mary Langer Thompson.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Santa Catalina Library, Zoom Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 21st
Time: 3 pm– 5 pm
Address: Zoom online
Website; https://www.saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com
The Sins of Sor Juana, by Karen Zacarias via Rio Hondo College – Online Event
Join host Rio Hondo College to enjoy the performance of the play, The Sins of Sor Juana, by Karen Zacarias, which imagines critical events in the life of Sor Juan Inez de la Cruz, one of the first published poets of the Americas. Born poor in Mexico in 1648, she was intelligent and determined. At age 12 she tried sneaking in to The University of Mexico dressed as a man, and was invited to court by the Viceroy of New Spain. At 17 she left court and joined a convent, where her focus was on writing many poems and plays. In time the church tried to silence her but she continued to write until the day she wrote a declaration in her own blood vowing to never write again. And she never did. The play explores many known and unknown aspects of her life.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: Rio Hondo College – Online event (see site)
Date: Saturday the 21st
Time: 7:30 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/347719869844499
Black & Woke Book Club November Virtual Book Club Brunch Launch via Eventbrite – Online Event
Join the launch of the Black and Woke Book Club in our first virtual brunch, in November.
Sign up at Eventbrite for your free ticket and to learn more about the book we will be reading and discussing this month. Black authors will be highlighted as their works of art are discussed by people of color. Please help support our Black Authors and sign up!
Where: Eventbrite – FREE online event (see details at website link)
Date: Sunday the 22nd
Time: 1 pm– 3:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website; https://www.facebook.com/events/2837245543176684
Fourth Sundays Poetry Readings: Richard Garcia & Felicia Zamora via Claremont Library – Online
Join Fourth Sundays Poetry at the Claremont Library to hear Richard Garcia and Felicia Zamora read and discuss their work.
Richard Garcia is the author of many collections of poetry and has been published in Best American Poetry. He conducted creative writing workshops for inpatients for 12 years at Children’s Hospital LA, and teaches in the Antioch University Los Angeles MFA Program, as well as throughout the U.S. He lives on James Island, South Carolina with his wife.
Felicia Zamora is a poet, educator and editor living in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is the author of six books of poetry, including, I Always Carry My Bones, 2020 Iowa Poetry Prize winner. Her writing appears widely, including Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day.
Where: Claremont Library – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Sunday the 22nd
Time: 2 pm– 4 pm
Address: Online event
Website; https://www.facebook.com/events/1432163210311270
Feminist Pilgrimage Book Release Celebration via LibroMobile IG– Online Event
Join several of the Feminist Pilgrimage contributing writers for a live online celebration of this new book from Litwin Books, a collection of personal essays by contemporary feminist educators scholars, artists and writers.
Royalties form the book sales are being donated to the Women’s Center for Creative Work in Los Angeles. See site for details.
Where: LibroMobile – Zoom online event (RSVP and see details at website link)
Date: Sunday the 22nd
Time: 3 pm– 4 pm
Address: Online event
Website; https://www.facebook.com/events/773328879884160
Ekphrastric with the Classics: a Workshop with Jessica M. Wilson via Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
This is the 4th 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 22nd (through Sunday November 29th )
Time: 4 pm –6 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Thing in the Labyrinth Book Club & Survivor Song via The Last Bookstore
The Last Bookstore’s Thing in the Labyrinth Book Club, led by Katherine McGee, reads the horror genre, and the selection for this month is Paul Tremblay’s book, Survivor Song. This book is about a pregnant woman and her pediatrician weathering an eerily familiar pandemic (but with more biting).
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed so check website for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Sunday the 22nd
Time: 7 pm– 8:30 pm
Address: Zoom online
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
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