Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Learning Circle: The 1619 Project via John C. Fremont Branch Library – Online Event
A Learning Circle is an opportunity to learn together. Join us as we study The 1619 Project, an ambitious undertaking by The New York Times to reexamine the legacy of slavery and the repercussions that exist to this day.
Email jcfrmt@lapl.org for participation details and related book list.
Where: John C, Fremont Branch Library, LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Monday the 23rd
Time: 1:30 pm
Address: LAPL – Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/learning-circle-1619-project
NaNoWriMo Teen Writers Group; Writer’s Chill Day via Central Library, LAPL – Online Teen Event
November is National Novel Writing Month. Join this teen writers group with the ambitious goal of completing the first draft of your novel in one month. Every Monday in November we explore an different aspect of novel writing, and this we will de-stress from your deadline with YA Librarian Emily to talk about techniques to help you make that 50,000 word goal by November 30, 2020. This meeting is for young writers ages 12-19.
Email teens@lapl.org from your school email address and request the Zoom link. See further details at site
Where: Central Library, LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Monday the 23rd
Time: 3 pm
Address: LAPL – Online event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/nanowrimo-teen-writers-group-writer’s-chill-day
Immi grant 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 23rd
Time: 5 pm
Address: Studio City Branch Library – Online event
Adam Kirsch & The Blessing and the Curse via Book Soup- Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Adam Kirsch, in conversation with Abe Socher, to hear him discuss his book, The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century.
Following The People and the Books, which “which covers more than 2,500 years of highly variegated Jewish cultural expression” (Robert Alter, New York Times Book Review), poet and literary critic Adam Kirsch turns to the story of modern Jewish literature. The events of the twentieth century transformed Jewish life, as well as Jewish writing: the novels, lays, poems, and memoirs of Jewish writers provided intimate access to new worlds of experience.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Monday the 23rd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Yuval Noah Harari, with Judd Apatow, & Sapiens: A Graphic History via LiveTalks LA – Online Event
Join us to hear author Yuval Noah Harari, in conversation with Judd Apatow, discuss his book, Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1).
This is the first volume of the graphic adaptation of the author’s smash New York Times and international bestseller, recommended by President Barack Obama and Bill Gates, with gorgeous full-color illustrations.
NOTE: This is a ticketed event so see site for further information.
Where: LiveTalks LA – Online Event (see site for costs and further details)
Date: Monday the 23rd
Time: 6 pm
Address: LiveTalks LA – Online event
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/yuvalnoahharari/
Daphne Merkin & 22 Minutes of Unconditional Love via Chevalier’s Bookstore- Online Event
Join us to hear author Daphne Merkin discuss her audacious new novel, 22 Minutes of Unconditional Love.
This is a novel of unsurpassed candor, punctuated by bold ruminations on love, marriage, family, sex, gender, and relationships. It depicts one woman’s descent into sexual captivity.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Event (see site for further details)
Date: Monday the 23rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: Chevalier’s – Online event
Website: https://chevaliersbooks.com/daphne-merkin
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 23rd
Time: 7:30pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Heinrich Heine & Writing the Revolution via American Jewish University – Online Event
Virtuoso German poet, satirist, and visionary humanist, Henrich Heine’s dynamic life story matters urgently today, and can inspire all of us.
Join an illuminating conversation with author George Prochnik and AJU’s Professor Michael Berenbaum, to launch his latest biography about Heine, and discuss the incredible re-discovery of Heine’s work and his times.
Where: AJU – Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 12 pm– 12:45 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2745188705797647
Just Us: An American Conversation with Claudia Rankine via ALOUD LAPL Library Series – Online Event
ALOUD Reading Series presents prize-winning poet and author Claudia Rankine and Terrance Hayes in conversation with Dawn Lundy Martin, to discuss her new book, Just Us.
The author of Citizen here initiates a conversation with readers about our present state and challenges, in a gorgeous new book of writings, illustrations and photos.
Join an illuminating conversation with Rankine and with poet Terrance Hayes, the author of eight collections, including American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, led by Dawn Lundy Martin
Where: ALOUD Reading Series – Online event (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 5 pm– 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/615028286619365
Expressions Virtual Poetry Readings & Open Mic via Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Zoom Online
Expressions LA Poetry Reading Series and Open Mic will meet online. Please email Emily at eaaronson@lapl.org for instructions on how to join the program.
Where: LAPL online (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-night
Life Stories Open Mic via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Zoom Online
Join us for Life Stories Open Mic at Zoom online. This is your opportunity to tell your own story! It could be funny, tragic, or simply slice-of-life. The stories will not be critiqued, just shared and enjoyed. To receive an invitation, please contact wwood@lapl.org.
Where: LAPL – Zoom online (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/life-stories-open-mic
Colonel Terry Virts & HOW TO ASTRONAUT via Creating Conversations Bookstore & Author Events – Online Event
Join NASA astronaut and International Space Station commander Colonel Terry Virts in conversation with Dr. Erik Viirre of UCSD Departments of Neurosciences, Surgery and Cognitive Science. This book covers everything form training through launch, orbit, spacewalking, deep space, and re-entry. They will discuss the science, emotions, and philosophies that an off-the-planet perspective can grant.
NOTE: Register in advance at the link at the site.
Where: Creating Conversations Bookstore – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/388136728849212
Vroman’s Live: Roxane Gay, Tracy Lynne Oliver & Rebecca Kirby & The Sacrifice of Darkness via Vroman’s Crowdcast – Online Event
Join authors Roxane Gay, Tracy Lynne Oliver & Rebecca Kirby, to hear them present and discuss The Sacrifice of Darkness.
The three authors have adapted Gay’s New York Times bestselling story “We Are the Sacrifice of Darkness” as a full-length graphic novel, expanding an unforgettable world where a tragic event forever bathes the world in darkness. Follow one woman’s powerful journey through this new landscape as she discovers love, family, and the true light in a world seemingly robbed of any. She finds there remain sources of hope that can pierce the veil.
NOTE: Details and registration available at website link.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://vromansbookstore.com/event/roxane-gay-tracy-lynne-oliver-and-rebecca-kirby
Steve Henn & Guilty Prayer via Rattlecast #68 Reading & Open Mic – Online Event
Rattlecast #68 features Steve Henn and his forthcoming book Guilty Prayer, His poems have appeared in Poets Respond and four issues of Rattle.
Steve Henn is the author of Indiana Noble Sad Man of the Year (Wolfson Press 2017), And God Said: let there be Evolution! (NYQ Books, 2012), Unacknowledged Legislations (NYQ Books, 2011), and the forthcoming chapbook from Main Street Rag, Guilty Prayer (Feb/Mar, 2021).
This Week’s Prompt for Open Mic is found below:
Randomstreetreview.com is a site that randomly generates photographs of streets all over the world. Find a photo that speaks to you and write a poem about it.
NOTE: See details at site.
Where: Rattlecast – Online Event (see site for link)
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Rattelcast – YouTube & multiple sites Online
Website: https://facebook.com/events/794533824674518/
Gothic Book Club & The Ancestor via The Last Bookstore – Online Event
The Gothic Book Club, led by John Palisanp, worms its way into many genres and art forms, and the books—old and new—have a lasting allure. Everlasting. This month we will read and discuss the book The Ancestor, by author Danielle Trussoni, about that dream of inheriting a castle in the Alps, which is not so dreamy here.
NOTE: All bookstore events are ticketed, so see details at site.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Online Event (see site for link)
Date: Tuesday the 24th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: The Last Bookstore – Zoom Online
Website: https://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Mystery Book Club & Edited to Death via Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Event
The Mystery Book Club reads a variety of mystery fiction, and the selection for discussion this month is Edited to Death, by author Linda Lee Peterson. This book is in paperback, published by Prospect Park Books, and it is a Maggie Fiori Mystery.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 9 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/mystery-book-group-edited-death-linda-lee-peterson
Classics Book Club & Love Medicine via Granada Hills Branch Library, LAPL – Zoom Online Event
Join the Granada Hills Branch Library via Zoom to read and discuss this month’s classics books selection, Love Medicine, by Louise Erdrich.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: Granada Hills Branch Library, LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 1:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/classics-book-club-discussion
Adult Book Club & Spirit Run via Felipe de Neve Branch Library, LAPL – Zoom Online Event
In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, join our Zoom book discussion of Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land, by Noe Alvarez.
Email felipelibrary48@gmail.com for Zoom meeting details. Borrow the book through Library to Go or get the ebook or audiobook through Hoopla.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: Felipe de Neve Branch Library, LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-dicussion-book-discussion-spirit-run-noé-álvarez
Mystery Book Club & Hickory Dickory Dock via Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Zoom Online Event
In November, join our online mystery book discussion of Hickory Dickory Dock, by Agatha Christie.
Email Emily at eaaronson@lapl.org for Zoom access.
NOTE: See website link to RSVP and for details.
Where: Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/mystery-book-club-9
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 25th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Katya Zinn 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 Katya Zinn, whose first collection of poems, human verses, will be released by Finishing Line Press in March 2021, and is available for pre-order in November 2020. She works as an arts educator for children with multiple disabilities, and her greatest artistic inspiration comes from her students, as she believes art in its purest form lives in the minds of children who still believe in magic.
NOTE: See site for further details.
Where: Zoom online event (Sign up at Google Sheets at site)
Date: Wednesday the 25th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/410239597017653
Thursday Morning Book Club via CSUDH- Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) – Zoom Online Event
Our Thursday Morning Book Club via OLLI@CSUDH is a time to read and discuss books selected by club members. Some questions to consider might be: How well has the author made their point? What surprised you about a character or the ending? How does the story relate to today’s ideas and life styles?
NOTE: See website link for for details.
Where: OLLI @ CSUDH – Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 26th
Time: 10 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events335678687455262/
Hoopla Book Chat via City of Azusa Zoom – Online YA Event
Each month, read a book on Hoopla (our newest service) and then join us on Zoom to discuss it. Our focus in November is YA mysteries, and the book is Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson.
You can find this book on Hoopla with your library card.
NOTE: register at jafnew@azusa.gov
Where: City of Azusa Library – Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 24th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/693790944900907/
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 27th
Time: 11 am – 11:30 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/1053404815104788
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
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 28th
Time: 10 am – 1 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/670785683795180
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 28th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://facebook.com/events/1129862680722506/
Mystery Book Club & Where the Crawdads Sing via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join the Mystery Book Club to discuss the book, Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens.
To receive an invitation, please contact wwood@lapl.org
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 11 am
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/mystery-book-club-15
Vroman’s Live: Adam Nayman & Paul Thomas Anderson: Masterworks via Vroman’s – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Adam Nayan in celebration of Indies First Day & Small Business Saturday for a virtual book talk of Paul Thomas Anderson: Masterworks.
This book by film critic Adam Nayan, produced by Little White Lies, examines, in illustrated detail, for the first time, Anderson’s entire career, from his films, to his music videos for Radiohead, and to his early short films. His influences, style, and recurring themes of alienation, reinvention, ambition, and destiny are analyzed and supplemented by interviews with his closest collaborators, and illuminated by photos and illustrations.
NOTE: Details event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
Website: https://vromansbookstore.com/event/adam-nayman
Cahuenga Book Club & My Brilliant Friend via Cahuenga Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join the Cahuenga Book Club to discuss the novel, My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante. New members are always welcome.
To receive an invitation, please contact hstgeorge@lapl.org
NOTE: See website for Zoom online link and further details.
Where: Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 3 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/cahuenga-book-club
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Publishing Workshop via Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a Print & Internet Publishing Workshop led by TBA, plus SPECTRUM SPECIAL EDITON: WHAT’S NEXT? reading.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Santa Catalina Library, Zoom Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 28th
Time: 3 pm– 5 pm
Address: Zoom online
Website; https://www.saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com
Burning Issues Book Club & Our History Is the Future via Bel Canto Books – Online Event
Join the Bel Canto Books Burning Issues Book Club to discuss our November selection, Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance, by Nick Estes.
In this book the author traces traditions of indigenous resistance that led to the #NoDAPL movement. It is at once a work of history, a manifesto, and an intergenerational story of resistance.
NOTE: This event is free to attend, but RSVP to receive meeting link.
Where: Bel Canto Books – Online event (RSVP and see details at website link)
Date: Sunday the 29th
Time: 12 pm– 2 pm
Address: Online event
Website; https://https://www.meetup.com/Bel-Canto-Books-Book-Lovers-Meetup-Group/events/274154480/
AI LA Monthly Book Club – Online via Zoom
The AI LA community started a book club a few months ago. Each month we will pick a book to read or Audible to discuss on the last Sunday of the month on Zoom. Please browse our new reading list at link online at site, and add your recommendations.
NOTE: See site for details, for tickets at Eventbrite, and to register on Zoom.
Where: AI LA – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Sunday the 29th
Time: 1 pm– 3 pm
Address: Online event
Website; https://www.facebook.com/events/723339974874817
Ekphrastric with the Classics: a Workshop with Jessica M. Wilson via Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
This is the final 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 29th (final meeting)
Time: 4 pm –6 pm
Address: Zoom Online
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