Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Indre Viskontas & How Music Can Make You Better via CalTech Live: Behind the Book – Online Event
Indre Viskontas combines a passion for music with scientific curiosity. She is a Professor of Sciences and Humanities at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of San Francisco, is a working opera singer, and serves as the Creative Director of Pasadena Opera.
Dr. Viskontas will be interviewed by Maya Jasper White, CalTech’s Director of Chamber music, about her book, How Music Can Make You Better, where she investigates what music is, and how it can change us for the better—from deep in our neurons to across our entire society.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: CalTech’s Behind the Book Series – Online event
Date: Monday the 5th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1096485427429412
Arthur Dong & Charles Yu via WeHo Reads Series: Hollywood Chinese – Online Event
In celebration of Asian American History Month, WeHo Reads presents Arthur Dong, author of Hollywood Chinese and Charles Yu, author of Interior Chinatown. They will go beyond the concept of representation in Hollywood to focus on the creative process for this craft talk and conversation.
Arthur Dong is the author of Hollywood Chinese.
Charles Yu is the author Interior Chinatown, winner of the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: WeHo Reads Event – Online event
Date: Monday the 12th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/454355662645236
Bobby Johnston, with Colleen Dunn Bates, & The Saint I Ain’t via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Crowdcast Event
Join author Bobby Johnston, in conversation with publisher Colleen Dunn Bates,to hear them discuss his book, The Saint I Ain’t: Stories from Sycamore Street.
Sinners, saints, and saviors collide in these stories, which chronicle the savagery and poetry of oppressive Catholic upbringing in 1970s Rust-Belt America. The author weaves landscapes of transgression and absolution, humor and resilience, into his sharp-eyed tapestry of recall.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Online Event
Date: Monday the 12th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live – Online event
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/bobby-johnston
Viet Thanh Nguyen, with Chris Abani, & The Committed via USC ALOUD Reading Series – Online Event
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and USC professor Viet Thanh Nguyen, will be in conversation with prize-winning author and UCR professor Laila Lalami, when they discuss the sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning debut novel The Sympathizer, his latest book, The Committed.
This new novel, set in 1980s Paris, follows some characters from The Sympathizer as they try to fashion new lives there. Vo Dahn is a Communist spy, half-Vietnamese and half-French, is not ready to embrace capitalism or disavow Marxism, and being of two minds he refuses to tell a cohesive narrative. The novel’s paradoxes, and a finale suggesting another emergence for the protagonist, are its very strengths.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: ALOUD Reading Series, LFLA– Online Zoom event
Date: Monday the 12th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/287596102752118 or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-committed-tickets-142995141317?fbclid=IwAR2hYcE05nPbsZA87ege1amJQFi1g7Il-bRbtRHow5HUcKX2ndIT61pDUfw
Writers Bloc Presents: Sharon Stone & The Beauty of Living Twice via Skylight Books – Online Event
Sharon Stone, in conversation with Anderson Cooper, will discuss her memoir The Beauty of Living Twice.
Author and renowned actress Sharon Stone offers a candid memoir and discussion of her refusal to “play nice” , her resilience in the face of career challenges and failures, health scares, trauma and violence, and other pitfalls in her paths. It is proof it’s never too late to raise your voice and speak out.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Writers Bloc & Skylight Books – Online event
Date: Monday the 12th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online event
Paul Shoemaker & Taking Charge of Change via Skylight Books – Online Event
Paul Shoemaker, in conversation with Andy Lipkis, will discuss his book, Taking Charge of Change: How Rebuilders Solve Hard Problems,
Author Paul Shoemaker researched effective civic change and found that the structures and foundations of American communities and companies are in deep need of rethinking and rebuilding. In this book he profiles 38 rock-star change agents who he dubs Rebuilders, and distills what makes them so effective.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Skylight Books – Online event
Date: Monday the 12th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online event
Monday Night Fiction Workshop at Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
The free Monday Night Fiction Workshop led by Raquel Baker is a community writing workshop in which participants are asked to bring copies of 2-3 pages of fiction to read, and for critique and discussion. Registration is required.
Raquel Baker earned a PhD in English Literary Studies from the University of Iowa and an MFA in Creative Writing form Mills College. She is currently Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Studies and Transnational Literatures at CSU Channel Islands. She also has published poetry and non-fiction, and done readings with the Ventura Poetry Project.
Where: Beyond Baroque online (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Monday the 12th
Time: 7:30pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Ficcion en Espanol Book Club with Dan Lopez & Sinfin via The Last Bookstore – Zoom Online
The Ficcion en Espanol Book Club is led by Dan Lopez. We read and discuss fiction in Spanish, and read great contemporary authors in their native language.
This month’s book selection is Sinfin, by author Martin Caparros, the story of the search for the origins on a dystopia, whose utopian façade is crumbling.
NOTE: All Last Bookstore events are ticketed, so check site for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Zoom online (see site)
Date: Monday the 12th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.lastbookstorela.com/event-details/ficcion-en-espanol-book-club-with-dan-lopez-4
Book Discussion Group & Late in the Day via Beverly Hills Public Library – Zoom Online
The Friends of the Library Book Discussion Group will host a discussion of our reading of the novel, Late in the Day, by Tessa Hadley.
Tessa Hadley’s Late in the Day revolves around two long-married and intertwined couples who have known each other since their twenties. It explores the complex webs at the center of our most intimate relationships to expose how, beneath the seemingly dependable arrangements we make for our lives, lie infinite alternate configurations.
Where: Beverly Hills Public Library – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 13th (Wed the 14th, Thu the 22nd )
Time: 10:15 am
Address: Zoom Online
Blake Bailey, with Peter Sagal, & Philip Roth via Skirball Cultural Center– Online Zoom Event
Join acclaimed biographer Blake Bailey, in conversation with NPR humorist Peter Sagal, as he describes the years he spent reviewing Roth’s personal archive and interviewing the author and those close to him, to create an indelible portrait of an American master and key figure in the postwar literary scene.
NOTE: Reservations required for this free event at site. Signed books are available for purchase from Chevalier’s Books.
Where: Writers Bloc & Skirball Cultural Center – Online (see site)
Date: Tuesday the 13th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/861415997972462
Jeff Mauro & Come on Over via Chevalier’s Bookstore – Virtual Zoom Event
Celebrity chef and author Jeff Morrow presents and launch’s Come on Over, his cookbook of recipes and pictures of for family and friends entertaining and celebrations.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 13th
Time: 5:30 pm PST
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/jeff-mauro
Poetry Open Mic via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Virtual Zoom Event
Celebrate poetry month by sharing a poem you wrote or a poem you love, or just listen and enjoy. This event is hosted by poet Wyatt Underwood.
To receive a Zoom invitation, please contact wwood@lapl.org.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 13th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-open-mic-2
Gina Frangello, with Daphne Merkin, & Blow Your House Down via Book Soup – Online Crowdcast Event
Author Gina Frangello, in conversation with Daphne Merkin, will discuss her newest memoir, Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason.
This book is a powerful testimony about the ways our culture seeks to cage women in traditional narratives of self-sacrifice and erasure. Frangello’s own story shows the violence they experience, the rage they suppress, the ways their bodies often reveal what they cannot say aloud, and finally, what it means to transgress being good in order to reclaim your own life.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Book Soup – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 13th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Quiara Alegria Hudes & My Broken Language via Skylight Books – Online Event
Author and playwright Quiara Alegria Hudes, in conversation with Kimberly Drew, will discuss her memoir, My Broken Language,
In this book the author, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (Water by the Spoonful), tells her lyrical story of coming of age against a backdrop of an ailing Philadelphia barrio, with her sprawling Puerto Rican Family as a collective muse. Weaving together Hudes’ love of books with the stories of her family, this is an inspired exploration of home, memory, and belonging.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Skylight Books – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 13th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online event
Mystery Book Club & Every Last Fear via Pages Bookstore – Virtual Event
The Mystery Book Club meets generally on the second Tuesday of each month, and reads new release mysteries selected by its participants at the previous meeting.
Our next selection is Every Last Fear: A Novel by author Alex Finlay, and our conversation will be facilitated by Bobby McCue.
This book is a riveting crime debut novel featuring nonstop plot twists and turns in an unforgettable story about a family made infamous by a true crime documentary that is found dead, leaving their surviving son to uncover the truth about their final days.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 13th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/mystery-book-club-virtual-meeting-9
Jason Ross, with Elliiott Kalan, & The Amazing Beef Squad via Chevalier’s Bookstore – Virtual Kids Event
Author Jason Ross, in conversation with author Elliott Kala,will discuss his children’s book, The Amazing Beef Squad.
Ross’s booktells about the beef squad, a group of unforgettable kids who are serious about pranks but also doing whatever it takes to help people and places they care about.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Kids Event
Date: Tuesday the 13th
Time: 7 pm PST
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/jason-ross
Tuesdays at the Virtual Cobalt: Poets Series Presents: Lob & Open Mic – Virtual Zoom Event
The Virtual Cobalt Poets Series, presented by Rick Lupert via Zoom, will feature poet Lob, plus an open reading.
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 13th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html
Adult Book Group & The Red Address Book via Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Event
Join our Adult Book Group via Zoom on the second Tuesday of each month, where this month we will be discussing Sofia Lundberg’s novel, The Red Address Book. This book is a poignant tale of memory and how those things we carry in our heart work together to create our own life stories.
The book is available in paperback and in digital format. Whether you loved it, hated it, or haven’t finished it, we want to see you at our Adult Book Club at America’s oldest Children’s Bookstore.
NOTE: Details available at website.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 13th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: Online Event
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/adult-book-group-red-address-book-sofia-lundberg
Da Poetry Lounge Open Mic at Greenway Court Theatre Is Now Virtual – Online
DPL events at the Greenway Court Theatre are postponed until further notice.
But some events are offered via livestream, so check the calendar for information on events offered via the wonderly app link.
We have an open mic every Tuesday night except for the third Tuesday, when we have a poetry slam. There is a sign-up procedure and a three-minute time limit per performer. The event is open to all ages.
Where: Online event
Date: Tuesday the 13th
Time: 9 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://dapoetrylounge.com/calendar (Check site to confirm date)
Jon Klassen Storytime & Book Signingvia Children’s Book World – Online Zoom Event
This is a school event, but the public is welcome with book purchase (order boos below);
Meet award-winning children’s picture book author and illustrator Jon Klassen for a virtual storytime celebrating the debut of his newest book, The Rock From the Sky..
The author is the creator of the book I Want My Hat Back and its series, among others. The Rock From the Sky is a hilarious meditation on the workings of friendship, fate, shared futuristic visions, and the funny feeling you get that something’s off somewhere, but you just can’t put your finger on it..
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Children’s Book World – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 14th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.childrensbookworld.com/event/exclusive-jon-klassen-virtual-storytime-and-book-signing
Mystery Book Club & Author Stuart Turton via West Valley Regional Library, LAPL – Online Zoom Event
The Mystery Book Club at West Valley Regional Library welcomes author Stuart Turton for a discussion of this month’s book selection, his novel The 71/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle,
Please RSVP to wvlly@lapl.org at least 72 hours prior to the event.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: West Valley Regional Library, LAPL – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 14th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/mystery-book-club-22
Raphael Simon & Secret Series: The Anti-Book via Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Kids Event
Join us for a book signing by author Raphael Simon, who is the creator of the Secret Series, and author of her new book, The Anti-Book.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 14th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event//raphael-simon-book-signing
Paul Theroux & Under the Wave at Waimea via Book Soup – Online Crowdcast Event
Author Paul Theroux will present and discuss her latest novel, Under The Wave at Waimea.
This book is an atmospheric novel following a big-wave surfer as he confronts aging, privilege, mortality, and whose lives we choose to remember. It’s set in the lush, gritty underside of an island paradise readers rarely see,, and is a masterwork by one of our greatest writers.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Book Soup – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 14th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/paul-theroux-discusses-under-wave-waimea
WeHo Reads Presents: “It is time to cross the threshold on your hands.” via City of West Hollywood Literary Series – Online Event
In celebrating National Poetry Month, West Hollywood’s new City Poet Laureate, Brian Sonia-Wallace, brings together poets near and far for an exploration of thresholds in language, gender, and geography. Featured poets include:
Fei Hernandez is the author of a debut full-length poetry collection, Hood Ciatura.
Aleysha Wise Hernandez is the co-founder of SLAM, co-host of Da Poetry Lounge, and extraordinary teaching and performance artist.
Alan Peleaz Lopez is an Afro-indigenous poet, installation and adornment artist from Oaxaca Mexico, and is author of Intergalactic Travels: poems form a fugitive alien (The Operating System, 2020).
Harry Josephine Giles is a Scottish trans writer, poet, and maker of shows and games, and author of ghost highland way.
NOTE: See Eventbrite site link for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: WeHo Reads & One City One Pride – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 14th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/426670315066469
Poetry in Bloom Event with Gerda Govine & Guests via Bonita Museum & Cultural Center – Online Event
Celebrating National Poetry Month, enjoy an evening of Poetry in Bloom, hosted by Gerda Govine and featuring the Pasadena Rose Poets, including:
Teresa Mei Chuc is Poet Laureate Emerita of Altadena and the author of three poetry collections, most recently The Invisible Light.
Kate Gale is co-founder and managing editor of Red Hen Press, editor of The Los Angeles Review, teaches in two MFA programs, and is the author of six books of poetry.
Hazel Clayton Harrison is the author of Down Freedom Road: Poetry and Prose.
Shahe Mankarian N/A
Toni Mosley N/A
Carla Sameth is the author of One Day on the Gold Line: A Memoir in Essays (Black Gold, 2019).
Annette Wong is the author of the poem, “Miscarry,” published in Waxwing magazine.
Readings include special guests.
NOTE: See Eventbrite site link for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Bonita Museum & Cultural Center – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 14th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online event
Live at Dynasty Typewriter: Rachel Kushner & The Hard Crowd via Skylight Books
Join us to hear author Rachel Kushner, in conversation with author Kim Gordon (Poem Store),to hear them discuss her new book, The Hard Crowd.
This book is a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture. These nineteen essays are new and old, and span literary journalism, memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about art and literature.
NOTE: See site for tickets and event details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore & Dynasty Typewriter
Date: Wednesday the 14th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Jesse Singal, with Paul Bloom, & The Quick Fix via Chevalier’s Bookstore – Virtual Event
Author Jesse Singal, in conversation with Paul Bloom,will discuss his book, The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can’t Sure Our Social Ills.
In this book an investigative journalist exposes the many holes in today’s bestselling behavioral science, and argues that the TED Talk trend so in vogue will never be enough to address social injustice and inequality.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 14th
Time: 7 pm PST
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/jesse-singal
Brendan Constantine: 30 in 30 Poetry Workshop at Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
Beyond Baroque offers the First Annual 30 in 30 Poetry Writing Workshop, led by Brendan Constantine, to meet the challenge in National Poetry Month to write a poem a day for the whole month of April.
This is the 3rd class in this four-week poetry intensive, and it will include group discussions on the art of poetry, effective tools and routines, and enough prompts to keep you busy until the next class and beyond. No experience necessary. Writers of all genres welcome. Join us and be inspired.
Brendan Constantine’s most recent collections are Dementia, My Darling (2016) and Bouncy Bounce (2018), and he has developed poetry workshops and taught creative writing at local schools and venues for many years.
NOTE: Check site for costs and details.
Where: Beyond Baroque online (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 14th (- Wednesday April 21st)
Time: 7pm – 9 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/intensive_workshops.html or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-baroques-first-annual-30-in-30-workshop-w-poet-brendan-constantine-tickets-142789129129
Anansi Virtual Writers Workshop via The World Stage – Online Event
Join this weekly community workshop founded in 1990, and following a three-part format, by joining in via Zoom every Wednesday night at 7:30 pm.
In its 30th year, the Anansi Writers Workshop is a whop and open mic performance featuring L.A.’s freshest, most inspiring voices speaking their truth in poetry and prose.
Suggested: $5.00 Donation via PayPal: The World Stage Gallery. Check website for Zoom link.
NOTE: See site for further details, and any change in the schedule due to holidays. Contact kaliflowers@gmial.com or call (323) 293-2451
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 14th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.theworldstage.org/ or https://www.facebook.com/AnansiVirtual Workshop/ (Check site to confirm date)
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 Beth Ruscio.
NOTE: See site for further details, tickets and information.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 14th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
The Ugly Mug Open Mic Reading with Jessica Lawson via Two Idiots Peddling Poetry – Zoom Online
Two Idiots Peddling Poetry and host Ben Trigg presents weekly poetry readings at the Ugly Mug and the events are now virtual.
This week’s feature is poet Jessica Lawson.
Jessica Lawson is a Denver-based writer, teacher, activist. and the author of a debut poetry collection, Gash Atlas (forthcoming 2021), as well as the chapbook, Rot Contracts. Her work has been published in The Rumpus, Entropy, The Fanzine, and many other publications, and her second book project will be a portrait of bodily vulnerability at the intersection of poverty, sex, and trauma.
You can join in at the Zoom event via link provided, and sign up to read via Google Sheets at site.
NOTE: See site for further details.
Where: Online Zoom event (see site)
Date: Wednesday the 14th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/883892055791487
Celebrating Poetry Month with “The Hill We Climb”via Vermont Square Branch Library, LAPL – Online Zoom Event
The Social Justice Book Club will celebrate National Poetry Month by reading “The Hill We Climb” by Amanda Gorman. We also encourage you to bring a poem to share.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: LAPL – Online Zoom Event
Date: Thursday the 15th
Time: 5:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/social-justice-book-club-dinnertime-discussion-1
Robin Reul, with Gae Polisner, & Where the Road Leads Us via Vroman’s – Online Crowdcast Event
Author Robin Reul, in conversation with Gae Polisner, will discuss her novel, Where the Road Leads Us.
This book is about learning that sometimes the best path is the unexpected one. Jack and Hallie are practically strangers but when fate puts them in the same rideshare to the bus terminal, it kicks off an unconventional and hysterical adventure that may lead them to their true selves.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Vroman’s – Online event
Date: Thursday the 15th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/robin-reul
Meet the Author: Robin Wall Kimmerer & Braiding Sweetgrass – Online Event
Author Robin Wall Kimmerer, will discuss her book, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants.
The author of this book is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants. She is the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, whose mission is to create programs which draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Online event
Date: Thursday the 15th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/122734499776945
True Crime Book Club with James Bartlett & Yellow Bird via The Last Bookstore – Zoom Online
True Crime Book Club is led by James Bartlett. We explore literature which explores our dark side.
This month’s book selection is Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country, by author Sierra Crane Murdoch, a story about the disappearance of Lissa Yellow Bird in 2012 at Fort Berthold, and the search for justice that came to consume her.
NOTE: All Last Bookstore events are ticketed, so check site for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore – Zoom online (see site)
Date: Thursday the 16th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://www.lastbookstorela.com/event-details/true-crime-book-club-with-james-bartlett-1
Sabor y Cultura: fos_thursdays Open Mic– Instagram Event
Please enjoy the Sabor y Cultura Open Mic on Instagram Live on Thursdays at 8pm PST.
This is an Instagram online event.
NOTE: Sign-ups open on Wednesday at 3 pm.
Where: Online event (see site)
Date: Thursday the 15th
Time: 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/fos_thursdays/
41st Annual LA times Book Prize Awards Ceremony –Online Event
Please join us for the 41st Annual LA Times Book Prize Virtual Ceremony, on the day prior to the Book Festival itself. Nominees and categories are provided on the site.
Where: Online event (see site)
Date: Friday the 16th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/bookprizes-2020/
Author & Illustrator of Graphic Novel Box of Bones via Cellar Door Books, Riverside – Online Event
Join us to hear the creators of Bag of Bones, Ayize Jama-Everett and John Jennings’ latest graphic novel release, in conversation with UCR Professor Rachelle Cruz, author of God’s Will for Monsters and Experiencing Comics.
To join, please purchase a copy of Bag of Bones from Cellar Book online or register for this event at Eventbrite to add a $5 donation.
Where: Cellar Door Books – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Friday the 16th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/event/boxofbones
Betto Arcos, with Tom Schnabel, & Music Stories from the Cosmic Barrio via Book Soup – Online Crowdcast Event
Music journalist and radio producer Betto Arcos, in conversation with Tom Schnable, will discuss the book, Music Stories from the Cosmic Barrio.
This book is a collection of 150 stories about music from all over Latin America, as well as Africa, the Middle East and Europe. The stories were originally broadcast on NPR public radio programs, and each of its twelve chapters follows a specific narrative in musical traditions and practices. It also tells a personal story about how the author searches for stories that bring us together through music. This edition includes illustrations by Alec Dempster.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Book Soup – Online event
Date: Friday the 16th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Chris Gardner & Permission to Dream via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Crowdcast Event
Join author Chris Gardner to hear him discuss his book, Permission to Dream.
One winter’s day, Chris Gardner set off with his nine-year-old granddaughter Brooke to find the harmonica of her dreams. The search sends them North “beyond the wall” into a foreboding Chicago neighborhood and, soon, on a harrowing adventure that will change both of their lives–and ours. Lost, they board a bus, reminding him of earlier rides through dark times when dreams of a better life kept him alive. As the two wind through a changing cityscape, he reflects on past lessons that offer powerful guidance for dreaming your way to monumental success.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Online Event
Date: Friday the 16th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live – Online event
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/chris-gardner
Jasmines & Poetry Festival: Lynne Thompson & Richard Modiano via LA Poet Society – Online Zoom Event
Join for a celebration of the Earth, fertility, and our creativity, which produces a banquet of poetry! We ar honored to feature our newly appointed Los Angeles Poet Laureate, Lynne Thompson for a reading of her work. We are also honored to have poet Richard Modiano joining us to give a Beat Poetry Workshop.
Where: L.A. Poet Society – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Friday the 16th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Zoom Online Event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/LosAngelesPoetSociety//photos/
The Return of SWAAM Spoken Word Art & Music – In-Person Event
Join us every 1st and 3rd Friday of the month for the Return of SWAAM Spoken Word, Art & Music, featuring a plethora of artistic, eclectic and creative individuals, with an Open Mic, Live Bands, Food & Drinks.
Experience the passion of these poets! April 2 feature was Zaha Zainabu.
Where: The Creative House– In-Person event (see details at website link)
Date: Friday the 16th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 122 N. Market St., Inglewood, CA 90301 (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/swaampoetry/
Third Fridays Rapp Saloon Poetry Open Mic with Elena Secota – Virtual Event
The Third Fridays Rapp Saloon Open Mic events have been curated by Elena Secota, and are now offered virtually.
This month is National Poetry Month, and our event features poet James Ragan. There is also an Open Mic. James Ragan is an internationally recognized poet, playwright, and essayist. Translated into 12 languages, he has authored eight books of poetry, and has read for notables and audiences world-wide. For 25 years he directed the professional Writing Program at USC.
NOTE: See website link for details. Zoom details will be sent when you RSVP.
Where: Third Fridays Rapp Saloon (online)
Date: Friday the 16th
Time: 8:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Address: Virtual event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/therappsaloonpoetryreading/
April Culturama via California Imagism Gallery – Online Event
April Culturama is an event that will help work through those demons that keep us from writing. We’re often afraid to make errors or are overwhelmed by other responsibilities or feel that nothing we do will ever be good enough. April Culturama will try to address as many of these issues as we can. We will look at ways to work through some of these things that keep us from writing.
Following this free presentation and generative workshop, we will have an interview with poet Rich Ferguson, from 1pm-2pm.
NOTE: See website for online Zoom link and further details. Tickets are free & available via Eventbrite.
Where: Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 17th
Time: 9 am – 2 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/april-culturama-tickets-147340187467/
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 17th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1256929551349151/
Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2021 – Online Kids Fiction Event
Join the 26th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, again offered virtually, from April 17 through April 20! Many literary events plus today’s introductory Kickoff Program will be offered, and tickets are FREE!
A Kids Program will be offered on the first day as the second literary event, and it features Guy Raz and Mindy Thomas, co-authors of Wow in the World: The How and Wow of the Human Body, in conversation with award-winning actress Zooey Deschanel.
Hosted by Yvonne Villarreal, the bookseller for this event is Once Upon a Time Bookstore.
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Saturday the 17th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: Online events (see site)
Website: https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/project/2021-event-guy-raz-mindy-thomas-zooey-deschanel/
Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2021 – Online Fiction Event
Join the 26th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, again offered virtually, from April 17 through April 20! Many literary events will be offered, and tickets are FREE!
Immigrants and American Society, A Historical Look, is a panel that will discuss immigration in America, looking back in our history and bringing us to the present day. The panel features:
Adam Goodman, is a historian and author of The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants, which is a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in History. He teaches at the University of Chicago.
Jacob Soboroff, is acorrespondent for NBC News and MSNBC and winner of the 2019 Walter Cronkite Award for his reporting on child separation policy. He is the author of Separated: Inside an American Tragedy, a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in Current Interest.
Jia Lynn Wang, is anauthor and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and current deputy national editor at The New York Times. She is the author of One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924- 1964.
Daniel Hernandez is LA Times culture writer, and the moderator for this event.
NOTE: The bookseller for this event is Pages Bookstore.
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Saturday the 17th
Time: 11 am
Address: Online events (see site)
Website: https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/project/2021-event-immigrants-american-society/
Get Lit Saturday Class via Get Lit – Words Ignite – Online Teen Event
Join the 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. This is a FREE writing technique, performance training and confidence building workshop for poets of all experience levels, ages 13-19.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Get Lit – Words Ignite – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 17th
Time: 11 am – 2 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/670785633795185/
Corey Finkle & Shelley Couvillion & Your Future Is Bright via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Crowdcast Kids Event
Join author Corey Finkle & illustrator Shelley Couvillion to hear them discuss their book, Your Future Is Bright, in a Special Story Time.
Told in rhyming verse and paired with watercolor illustrations, this book follows a group of children as they dream about what the future might hold, as they spin their passions into opportunities
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Online Event
Date: Saturday the 17th
Time: 11 am
Address: Crowdcast Live – Online event
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/corey-finkle-shelley-couvillon
Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2021 – Online YA Fiction Event
Join the 26th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, again offered virtually, from April 17 through April 20! Many literary events will be offered, and tickets are FREE!
Young Adult Fiction: The Black Experience, is a panel that will discuss powerful coming-of-age novels, all written in lyrical verse, which are beautiful explorations of identity, race, wrongful incarceration, the power of drag, and much more. The panel features:
Hannah Gomez, is a teacher and write, and a moderator of this event.
Dean Atta, is a poet, and his debut YA novel is a finalist for the LA Times Young Adult Literature Book Prize.
Morgan Parker is the author of Magical Negro, and the YA novel Who Put This Song On? among others.
Dr. Yusef Salaam is the author, with Ibi Zooi, of Punching the Air, which is a finalist for the LA Times YA Book Prize.
Ibi Zooi is the author of American Street, Pride, and My Life Is an Ice Cream Sandwich, which is a finalist for the LA Times YA Book Prize.
NOTE: The bookseller for this event is Once Upon a Time Bookstore.
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Saturday the 17th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Website: https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/project/2021-event-ya-poetry-black-experience/
Emerging Writers Fellowship via Get Lit – Online Teen Event
Get Lit’s FREE 15-week Emerging Writers Fellowship is an online publishing course held for teens on Saturdays from 1-3pm PST.
The course is designated for youth (ages 13-19) who are interested in creating their own poetry chapbooks, as well as learning more about submission and media marketing. No previous experience necessary! Priority to LA youth but all are welcome.
Contact Raul@getlit.org with any questions.
NOTE: See website for online link and further details.
Where: Get Lit – Words Ignite – Online event (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 17th
Time: 1 pm – 3 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/418997715979818/
Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2021 – Online Selfies for Social Change Event
Join the 26th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, again offered virtually, from April 17 through April 20! Many literary events will be offered, and tickets are FREE!
Selfies for Social Change is a panel of creators and influencers who use digital outlets to claim space and empower communities discuss how social media can be used for social good. The panel features:
Colin Maclay, is a Research Professor of Communication and Executive Director of USC Annenberg Innovation Lab, and a moderator of this event.
Jackson Bird, is a writer and internet creator dedicated to demystifying the gender experience. His shares his and others’ experiences in his debut book, Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place.
Akilah Hughes is a writer, comedian, and YouTuber, and a digital correspondent. Her collection of essays is titled Obviously: Stories form my Timeline in the fall of 2019.
Alyssa V. Richardson, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Journalism at USC, and author of “Bearing Witness While Black African Americans, Smartphones and the New Protest #journalism.”
NOTE: The bookseller for this event is Bookshop.
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Saturday the 17th
Time: 2 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Website: https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/project/2021-event-selfies-for-social-change/
Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2021 – Criminal Justice in America Event
Join the 26th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, again offered virtually, from April 17 through April 20! Many literary events will be offered, and tickets are FREE!
Criminal Justice in America is a panel of three writers whose important works focus on the criminalization of mental illness, the human cost of America’s devastating war on drugs and how reform-minded D.A.s are innovating to increase fairness and reduce inequality in our prosecutorial system.. The panel features:
Sandy Banks is a writer, columnist and editor at the LA Times focused on private lives, public policy, and people who inspire and infuriate us, and is a moderator of this event.
Brittany K. Barnett is an attorney and entrepreneur focused on social impact investing, and dedicated to transforming the criminal justice system. Her memoir, A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom, is a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in Current Interest.
Emily Bazelon is a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine and a lecturer at Yale Law School, Her latest book, Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration, won the 2019 LA Times Book Prize in Current Interest.
Christine Montrose, MD is an Associate Professor of psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University, an award-winning poet, and the author of Body of Work, Falling into the Fire, and Waiting for the Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration, which is a finalist for the LA times Book Prize in Current Interest.
NOTE: The bookseller for this event is Vroman’s.
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Saturday the 17th
Time: 3 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Website: https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/project/2021-event-criminal-justice-in-america/
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & The Big SLAM via Zoom Online
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for The Big SLAM, hosted by CaLokie and Coco (Prizes for all participants).
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: NOTE SPECIAL LOCATION (see details at website link)
Date: Saturday the 17th
Time: 3 pm– 5 pm
Address: My Place Café in Pasadena
Website: https://www.saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com
Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2021 – Online James Patterson Event
Join the 26th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, again offered virtually, from April 17 through April 20! Many literary events will be offered, and tickets are FREE!
James Patterson, in an interview with LA Times Book Club’s Donna Wares, will discuss his new Audible Original Drama, The Coldest Case, presented by Audible.
Donna Wares returned to The Times in 2019 to launch the LA Times Book Club, and previously was an editor on the paper’s national desk, state desk, and Orange County city desk. She has written several books and edited an anthology titled My California: Journeys by Great Writers, a bestselling anthology that raised $100,000 for children’s writing programs in the state.
James Patterson is the world’s bestselling author. The creator of Alex Cross, he has produced more enduring fictional heroes than any other novelist alive. He lives in Florida with his family.
NOTE: The bookseller for this event is Audible.
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Saturday the 17th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Website: https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/project/2021-event-audbile-james-patterson/
Rising Up: Poets Take a Stand via BookSwell – Online Event
Join us for a BookSwell literary reading and fundraiser for Stop AAPI Hate, and to hear four poets from different backgrounds who are concerned with issues of social justice. This online event, produced by Lisbeth Coiman, in collaboration with BookSwell, is free to attend via Zoom and YouTube. All proceeds from pay-what-you-will ticketed donations will go to Stop AAPI Hate
Lisbeth Coiman is an emerging bilingual writer who has wandered the immigration path from Venezuela to Canada, to the U.S. In her self-published memoir, I Asked the Blue Heron, she explores the intersection between immigration and mental health. She is a bilingual writer and adult educator living in L.A. and teaches ESL for LAUSD.
Deborah J. Hunter is a Tulsa poet, spoken word artist, essayist, workshop facilitator, and social justice activist She is widely published and is best-known for her voice and delivery style. She has received numerous awards, and is an outspoken advocate for homelessness and mental illness issues.
Teresa Mei Chuc is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently, Invisible Light (2018). She immigrated to America from Vietnam with her mother and brother, while her father remained in a Vietcong “reeducation” prison camp for nine years. Since age two she has lived in the Tongva village of Hahmongna (Pasadena, CA). She has an MFA form Goddard College, and teaches literature and writing at a public high school in L.A.
Leonora Simonovis is a Venezuelan poet and VONA alum, now living in San Diego. She teaches literature and creative writing in Spanish at USD, has an MFA from Antioch University, Los Angeles, and is a contributing editor for Drizzle Review.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: BookSwell – Online Event
Date: Saturday the 17th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/328759692102755
Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2021 – Online California Dreamin’ Event
Join the 26th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, again offered virtually, from April 17 through April 20! Many literary events will be offered, and tickets are FREE!
California Dreamin’: Walter Mosley, Ron Brownstein & David Ulin on Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s is a discussion of the culture and politics across the Black and white communities.
David L. Ulin is the moderator of this discussion, and the author of more than a dozen books, including Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles and The Lost Art of Reading: Book and Resistance in a Troubled Time.He is an associate professor of English at USC, where he edits the literary journal Air/Light.
Ron Bownstein is a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a senior editor at The Atlantic, and a senior political analyst for CNN. He also served as national political correspondent and national affairs columnist for the Los Angeles Times and covered politics for the National Journal. He is the author of six previous books, including The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America, which was a finalist for an LA Times Book Prize in Current Interest.
Walter Mosley is the author of more than 60 critically-acclaimed books of fiction, on fiction, memoir, and plays. His work has been translated into 25 languages. He might be best-known for his Easy Rawlins series of books, and its TV and film spin-offs. His work has explored the lives of Black men and women in America—and in Los Angeles—past, present and future. He has won numerous awards and was the 2020 recipient of the LA Times’ Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement. He lives in Brooklyn and Los Angeles.
NOTE: The bookseller for this event is Book Soup.
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Saturday the 17th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2021 – Online Behind the Scenes Event
Join the 26th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, again offered virtually, from April 17 through April 20! Many literary events will be offered, and tickets are FREE!
Behind the Scenes: A Conversation About Filmmaking is a conversation about the films that defined the last decades of the twentieth century—from The Graduate to Midnight Cowboy to Dazed and Confused—with film critic and host of KCRW’s nationally syndicated show, The Treatment, and moderator Elvis Mitchell.
Elvis Mitchell is an American film critic and host of KCRW’s nationally syndicated pop culture entertainment show, The Treatment, since its inception in 1996. He was born in Highland Park, Michigan, and has an English degree from Wayne State University.
Glenn Frankel worked for many years at the Washington Post, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. He has taught journalism at Stanford and at the University of Texas, Austin, where he directed the School of Journalism. He is the bestselling author of The Searchers, High Noon, and his latest release, Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic. He lives in Arlington, VA,
NOTE: The bookseller for this event is Book Soup.
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Saturday the 17th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Website: https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/project/2021-event-behind-the-scenes/
Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2021 – Online Kids Book: Ambitious Girl Event
Join the 26th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, again offered virtually, from April 17 through April 20! Many literary events plus today’s introductory Kickoff Program will be offered, and tickets are FREE!
Meena Harris, author of Ambitious Girl, will be in conversation with LA Times columnist and interviewer Mary McNamara,
Anyone who’s been underestimated or overshadowed will finds inspiration in this empowering picture book from bestselling author Meena Harris, Ambitious Girl.
When a young girl sees a strong woman on TV labeled as “too assertive” and “too ambitious” it sends her on a journey of discovery through past, present, and future about the challenges faced by women and girls and the ways in which they can reframe, redefine, and reclaim words meant to knock them down. This is a must-read for every little girl!
Meena Harris was born into a family of strong women whose legacy continues to inpire her. Meena herself is a lawyer and entrepreneur, and in 2017 she founded Phenomenal, a female-powered organization that brings awareness to social causes. Her newest book is Ambitious Girl, a picture book for children. She resides in San Francisco with her partner and two daughters.
NOTE: The bookseller for this event is Mrs. Nelson’s Book Company.
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Sunday the 18th
Time: 10 am
Address: Online events (see site)
Website: https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/project/2021-event-meena-harris/
Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2021 – Online Politics/History Event
Join the 26th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, again offered virtually, from April 17 through April 20! Many literary events plus today’s introductory Kickoff Program will be offered, and tickets are FREE!
Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain, will be in conversation with LA Times reporter and interviewer Matt Hamilton,
Author Radden Keefe’s latest saga chronicles three generations of a single family and the mark they would have on the world. Empire of Pain chronicles the multiple investigations and members of the Sackler family and their company, and the scorched-earth legal tactics that the family has used to evade accountability. A grand, devastating portrait of a family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin.
Patrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of the bestselling Say Nothing: a True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, which was selected as one of the best books of 2019 by many. His just-released book, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, has already received awards. He is the creator and host of the eight-part podcast, Wind of Change.
Matt Hamilton is a reporter of the Los Angeles Times who covers legal affairs and corruption. He won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 2019 with colleagues Harriet Ryan and Paul Pringle for their investigation into the University of Southern California.
NOTE: The bookseller for this event is Vroman’s.
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Sunday the 18th
Time: 11 am
Address: Online events (see site)
Website: https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/project/2021-event-patrick-radden-keefe/
Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2021 – Online Bilingual Kids Book Panel Event
Join the 26th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, again offered virtually, from April 17 through April 20! Many literary events plus today’s introductory Kickoff Program will be offered, and tickets are FREE!
LA Times en Espanol writer Angel Rodriguez hosts a stimulating conversation with children’s authors/illustrators Jacqueline Alcantara, Monica Brown, Juana Martinez-Neal and NoNieqa Ramos as they discuss their new picture books and talk about representation and the importance of youngsters seeing themselves reflected in children’s literature.
Angel Rodriguez works on special projects at the LA Times, including Los Angeles Times en Espanol. He joined the Times as Sports Editor in 2015 after working at the Washington Post, among other publications. He is moderator of this event.
Jacqueline Alcantara is a freelance illustrator and artist. Her debut picture book, The Field, written by Baptiste Paul, was named a Best Book of 2018 by numerous publications. Freedom Soup, written by Tami Charles, was published in 2019, and her newest book Your Mama, was co-authored with NoNieqa Ramos.
Monica Brown has written twenty acclaimed picture books, including the award-winning Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match, and the chapter book series, Lola Levine and Sarai. She is a professor of English at Northern Arizona University, and lives with her family in Flagstaff, AZ.
Juana Martinez-Neal is the Peruvian born daughter of painters. Her debut as an author/illustrator, Aimo y como obtuvo su nombre, was awarded a Caldecott. Her new book is Zonia’s Rain Forest. She lives in Arizona with her family.
NoNieqa Ramos is an educator and author of the award-winning The Disturbed Girls Dictionary. Her just released book is Your Mama, co-authored with Jacqueline Alcantara.
NOTE: The bookseller for this event is Once Upon a Time Bookstore.
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Sunday the 18th
Time: 12 am
Address: Online events (see site)
Website: https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/project/2021-event-lat-en-espanol/
Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2021 – Online Fiction Panel Event
Join the 26th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, again offered virtually, from April 17 through April 20! Many literary events plus today’s introductory Kickoff Program will be offered, and tickets are FREE!
Two award-winning Scottish authors, Andrew O”Hagan and Douglas Stuart, discuss their semi-autobiographical, coming-of-age novels with LA Times staff writer Anousha Sakoui. Their respective books, Mayflies and Shuggie Bain are tender, beautiful portraits of a time and place.
Anousha Sakoui is an entertainment industry writer for the LA Times, was born in London, and is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. She is moderator of this event.
Andrew O’Hagan is the author of the novels, Our Father, Personality, and Be Near Me, which won the LA Times Book Prize for Fiction. His latest work, Mayflies, is the winner of the LA Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose.
Douglas Stuart is a Scottish-American author, and his debut novel, Shuggie Bain, won the Booker Prize and is a finalist for the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. His short stories have been published in The New Yorker.
NOTE: The bookseller for this event is Skylight Books.
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Sunday the 18th
Time: 1 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Website: https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/project/2021-event-andrew-ohagan-and-douglas-stuart/
Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2021 – Online Main Stage Cooking Event
Join the 26th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, again offered virtually, from April 17 through April 20! Many literary events plus today’s introductory Kickoff Program will be offered, and tickets are FREE!
Actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson, author of Food Between Friends, will be in conversation with Times columnist Matt Brennan. In this book, best friends Jesse Tyler Ferguson, star of Modern Family, and recipe developer Julie Tanous pay homage to their hometowns as they whip up modern California food and Southwestern spins in their debut cookbook.
NOTE: The bookseller for this event is Pages Bookstore.
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Sunday the 18th
Time: 2 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Website: https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/project/2021-event-jesse-tyler-ferguson/
Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2021 – Online Fiction/Poetry Panel Event: The Black Experience Across Genres
Join the 26th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, again offered virtually, from April 17 through April 20! Many literary events plus today’s introductory Kickoff Program will be offered, and tickets are FREE!
The Black Experience Across Genres is the topic of this candid conversation on fiction/poetry with a poet and three fiction writers, who join moderator and UCLA sociologist Marcus Anthony Hunter for a panel discussion.
Marcus Anthony Hunter is a professor of Sociology, and served as inaugural chair of the department of African American Studies at UCLA. He is the author of three books, and is moderator of this event.
S.A. Cosby is the bestselling author of Blacktop Wasteland, a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in Mystery/Thriller, as well as Brotherhood of the Blade and My Darkest Prayer.
Danielle Evens is the author of the prize-winning story collection, Before You Suffocate Your Fool Self,, and her most recent collection, The Office of Historical Collections: A Novell and Stories, which is a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in Fiction.
Nikky Finney is the author of five books of poetry, including Head Off & Split, winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. He latest work, Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry, is a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in Poetry.
Robert Jones, Jr. is a New York Times bestselling author and has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times. He is the creator of the social-justice social media community, Son of Baldwin. The Prophets is his debut novel.
NOTE: The bookseller for this event is Book Soup.
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Sunday the 18th
Time: 3 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Website: https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/project/2021-event-black-experience-across-genres/
Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2021 – Online Music Panel Event
Join the 26th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, again offered virtually, from April 17 through April 20! Many literary events plus today’s introductory Kickoff Program will be offered, and tickets are FREE!
Music, Money & Mindfulness is the topic of this panel how to succeed in the industry. It includes three USC professors and is moderated by Varun Soni, Dean of Religious Life at USC.
Jeff Brabec is a Senior Vice President of Business & Legal Affairs for BMG, the fourth largest music publisher in the world. He is co-author of MUSIC, MONEY, AND SUCCESS: The Insider’s Guide to Making money in the Music Business.
Lynn Helding is the author of The Musician’s Mind: Teaching, Learning, and Performance in the Age of Brain Science. She is Professor of Practice in Voice and Vocal Pedagogy at USC and an associate editor of the journal Singing.
Richard “Wolfie” Wolf is an Emmy Award-winning composer, multi=Platinum selling music producer, and professor at USC’s Thornton School of Music. He is the author of the book, In Tune: Music as the Bridge of Mindfulness.
NOTE: The bookseller for this event is LA Times Bookshop.
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Sunday the 18th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Website: https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/project/2021-event-music-money-mindfulness/
Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2021 – Online Fiction Makes the World Go Round Event
Join the 26th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, again offered virtually, from April 17 through April 20! Many literary events plus today’s introductory Kickoff Program will be offered, and tickets are FREE!
Fiction Makes the World Go Round is the topic of this panel of storytellers, who will transport you to China, Africa, India, and through America too. Join us for a conversation that traverses the globe while exploring the immigrant experience, environmental degradation, cultural emersion, globalism and achieving the American Dream. This event is moderated by LA Times Book Editor, Boris Kachka.
Boris Kachka is the current LA Times Book Editor, and he was previously the books editor at New York Magazine, where he was manager of its “Culture” section. He is the author of several books, including Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America’s Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux.
Chang-rae Lee is the author of Native Speaker, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for First Fiction, as well as On Such a Full Sea, A Gesture Life, Aloft, and The Surrendered, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His newest novel is My Year Abroad. He teaches writing at Stanford University.
Meng Jin was born in Shanghai and lives in San Francisco. Little Gods is her debut novel, and is a finalist for the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.
Imbolo Mbue is the author of the New York Times bestseller and prize-winning book, Behold the Dreamers. Her just-released new novel is How Beautiful We Were. She is a native of Cameroon, is a graduate of Rutgers and Columbia Universities, and lives in New York City.
Sanjena Sathian is a 2019 graduate of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has worked as a reporter in Mumbai and San Francisco, with nonfiction bylines in various journals. Gold Diggers is her first novel.
NOTE: The bookseller for this event is Skylight Books.
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Sunday the 18th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Website: https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/project/2021-fiction-makes-world-go-round/
Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2021 – Online Young Adult Fantasy & Mystery Event
Join the 26th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, again offered virtually, from April 17 through April 20! Many literary events plus today’s introductory Kickoff Program will be offered, and tickets are FREE!
Young Adult Fantasy: Magic & Mystery is the topic of this panel of YA authors, which features debut fantasy writers Tracy Deonn and Namina Forna, with award-winning author Daniel Jose Older, to discuss topics spanning Arthurian legend, West Africa-inspired fantasy, and enemies working together to save the earth. The event is moderated by YA literature reviewer and LA Times book prize judge Sharon Levin.
Tracy Deonn is the prize-winning author of Legendborn, and a second-generation fangirl. She has worked in the theater, video game production, and K-12 education.
Namina Frona is a screenwriter in LA and loves telling stories with fierce female leads. The Gilded Ones is her debut novel.
Daniel Jose Older is the bestselling author of the upcoming YA fantasy novel, Ballad & Dugger, the sci-fi adventure Flood City, and the historical fantasy series Dactyl Hill Squad, among others. He has won and been nominated for numerous prizes, and had a decade=long career as a paramedic.
NOTE: The bookseller for this event is Mrs. Nelson’s Book Company.
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Sunday the 18th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Website: https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/project/2021-event-ya-fantasy-magic-mystery/
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