Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Dia De Los Muertos Exhibition: Everything Connected: Land, Body, Cosmos at Self Help Graphics & Art – On-Site Event
Join Self Help Graphics for our Dia De Los Muertos Exhibition, Everything Connected: Land, Body Cosmos, curated by 2921 Commemorative Print Artist, Miyo Stevens-Gandara. This in-person exhibition pairs nine visual artists (music, theory, poetry) to develop a body of work around the idea that everything is connected— nothing in the world exists on its own: our existence, community, environment, health and well-being, cultural practices, and the planet.
Participants can view the artwork in person and experience the audio piece through QR codes, A small self-published catalog will be available. The public may view the exhibition by appointment on Eventbrite, or drop in for guided tours daily at 12:30 pm and 2:00 pm.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Self Help Graphics & Art – Online Event
Date: Monday the 1st (runs through November 24, 2021)
Time: 10 am – 5 pm
Address: 1300 E. 1st. Street, Los Angeles, CA
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/535313880889086/
Keith Ryan Cartwright, with Guests, & Black Cowboys of Rodeo via Book Soup – Online Event
Please join author and Keith Ryan Cartwright, in conversation with Obba Babatinde, Tre Hosley, Reginald T Dorsey & Josh Peter,to hear them discuss his new book, Black Cowboys of Rodeo: Unsung Heroes from Harlem to Hollywood and the American West.
This book is a collection of one hundred years of stories, told by the revolutionary Black pioneers whose cowboy pursuits were set against the backdrop of Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation, the civil rights movement, and eventually the integration of a racially divided country. The author will be joined by some of these unique individuals, Black cowboys who will share their journeys, stories and experiences.
NOTE: See site for book purchase & event details.
Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Monday the 1st
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Food for Thought: A Toast to Blondell with Korsha Wilson via Getty and Art + Practice – Online Event
Please join food writer and podcast host Korsha Wilson for a public program grounded in storytelling and paying homage to choreographer and video artist Blondell Cummings.
During Blondell’s career she created a series of dances titled Food for Thought. These works included a suite of performances that represented her kinetic meditation on the importance and specificity of food. She explored food as an entry point to her own life stories and to those of others. Korsha Wilson, Jasmine Urrea and Nes Abegaze, who also use food as a way to share stories, cultures and understanding, will be in conversation with attendees in this free live program.
NOTE: See site for book purchase & event details.
Where: Getty and Art + Practice– Online Event
Date: Monday the 1st
Time: 6:30 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1220908371710645
Non-Fiction Book Club & How to Hide an Empire via Pages Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join our Non-Fiction Book Club to read and discussHow to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, by author Daniel Immerwahr.
This book is a path-breaking history of the United States’ overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire outside the territories of the fifty states. Here the author tells the story of the United States outside the United States, the forgotten stories after World War Ii that cast the American history in a new light, as it moved away from colonialism, to innovations in influence that did note requires the control of colonies, but was full of exploitation and violence.
NOTE: See site for details and guidelines.
Where: Pages Bookstore – In-Person Courtyard Event
Date: Monday the 1st
Time: 7 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/non-fiction-book-club-1
Blair Imani, with Andre Henry, & Read This to Get Smarter via Vroman’s – Off-site Live Event
Join us to hear author Blair Imani, in conversation with Andre Henry, present and discuss her new book, Read This to Get Smarter: About Race, Class, Gender, Disability & More.
Blair Imani’s book, is an approachable guide to being an informed, compassionate, and socially conscious person today00 form discussions of race, gender, and social orientation to disability, class, and beyond. The author is a critically acclaimed historian, educator, and author who offers a call to arms for those who wish to intelligently and empathetically process, discuss and educate others on the crucial issues we must tackle to achieve an equitable and liberated world.
NOTE: See Site for details and guidelines.
Where: Vroman’s at All Saints Church, Pasadena – Off-site Event
Date: Monday the 1st
Time: 7 pm
Address: 132 N. Euclid Ave, Pasadena, CA 91101
Monday Night Fiction Workshop at Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
This 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 from 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 event (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Monday the 1st
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Creative Writing Workshop with Writer Sesshu Foster – Online Zoom Event
Join us for a Creative Writing Workshop led by Sesshu Foster, author most recently of City of the Future, winner of the CLMP Firecracker Award, and ELADATL: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines, a novel written with artist Arturo E. Romo, published by City Lights in 2021.
Sesshu Foster taught composition and literature in East L.A. for 35 years. He’s also taught writing at the University of Iowa, the California Institute of the Arts, the University of California, Santa Cruz, and at other institutions. He will share and discuss his work and writing process and then lead participants in a writing activity.
NOTE: See site for details and event link.
Where: Edendale Branch Library, LAPL – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 2nd
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: LAPL – Online Zoom Event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/creative-writing-workshop-writer-sesshu-foster
Sherry Thompson, with Deanna Raybourn, & Miss Moriarty, I Presume? Launch Event via The Ripped Bodice Bookstore – Online FB Event
Join us at our Live Stream Virtual Event with author Sherry Thompson, in conversation with Deanna Raybourn, to celebrate thelaunch of Miss Moriarty, I Presume? and to discuss the Lady Sherlock series.
In this latest addition to the bestselling series set in Victorian England, Charlotte Holmes comes face-to-face with her enemy when Moriarty himself shows up on her doorstep as a client. He fears tragedy has befallen his daughter and wants Charlotte to find out the truth about her disappearance.
NOTE: See site for guidelines & event details.
Where: The Ripped Bodice – Online FB Event
Date: Tuesday the 2nd
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.therippedbodicela.com/events-and-tickets
An Evening with Zadie Smith, with writer-in-residence Geoff Dyer, & Intimations at USC’s Visions & Voices – On-site Live Event
Join us for An Evening with Zadie Smith, award-winning author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph of Man, On Beauty, NW, and Swing Time, as well as collections of stories such as Changing My Mind and Feeling Free. She will bein conversation with USC’s renowned writer-in-residence Geoff Dyer.
At this special event, Zadie Smith will read from her recent work, followed by a conversation with USC’s writer-in-residence Geoff Dyer. During the early months of lockdown, Smith wrote a timely series of reflective essays, Intimations, in which John Powers of NPR states that she “..does more than illuminate what we’re going through. She teaches us how to be better at being human.”
NOTE: See Site for details, tickets, and guidelines.
Where: USC, Visons & Voices, Bovard Auditorium – On-site Event
Date: Tuesday the 2nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 3551 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/225581142874244
At Skylight: Kyle Lucia Wu, with Jean Chen, & Win Me Something via Skylight Bookstore – On-site Event
At Skylight presents author Kyle Lucia Wu, in conversation with Jean Chen Ho, to discuss her perceptive and powerful debut of identity and belong—of a woman determined to be seen, Win Me Something (Tin House).
Willa Chen has never quite fit in. Growing up as a biracial Chinese American girl in New Jersey, Willa felt both hyper-visible and unseen, too Asian to fit in at her mostly white school, and too white to speak to the few Asian kids around. After her parents’ early divorce, they both remarried and started new families, and Willa grew up feeling outside of their new lives, too.
For years, Willa does her best to stifle her feelings of loneliness, drifting through high school and then college as she tries to quiet the unease inside her. But when she begins working for the Adriens—a wealthy white family in Tribeca—as a nanny for their daughter, Bijou, Willa is confronted with all of the things she never had. As she draws closer to the family and eventually moves in with them, Willa finds herself questioning who she is, and revisiting a childhood where she never felt fully at home.
NOTE: See site for tickets, event details and to purchase book.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 2nd
Time: 7:30 pm
Address:1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-kyle-lucia-wu-presents-win-me-something-jean-chen-ho
Tuesdays at the Virtual Cobalt: Poets Series Presents: Open Reading & Dig Wayne – Virtual Zoom Event
The Virtual Cobalt Poets Series, presented by Rick Lupert via Zoom, will feature an Open Reading and guest poet Dig Wayne.
Dig Wayne is a poet, photographer and musician, teacher and coach, and the author of Digambiguation. His work can be found in the online magazines Felix and Citron Review, and his poetry has been published in the journals Askew and Spillway.
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 2nd
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html
Shea Serrano & Hip Hop (And Other Things) via Book Soup, Skylight Books & Others – Online Event
Please join author Shea Serrano to hear him discuss his new book, Hip Hop (And Other Things), the third book in a series.
The author, staff writer for The Ringer and host of The Connect podcast, writes about what has become the most dominant form of music for the past two and a hlf decades, and the book includes art by acclaimed illustrator Arturo Torres, infographics and footnotes, etc. The chapters can be silly, serious, or both, and all are treated with the care and respect they deserve.
NOTE: See site for book purchase & event details.
Where: Book Soup, Skylight Books & Others – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 2nd
Time: 8 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/shea-serrano-discusses-hip-hop-and-other-things or https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/twelve-books-presents-shea-serrano-author-hip-hop-and-other-things
Da Poetry Lounge Open Mic at Greenway Court Theatre Is Now Virtual – IG Online
DPL events at the Greenway Court Theatre are postponed until further notice.
DPL has an open mic every Tuesday night. There is a sign-up procedure and a three-minute time limit per performer.
Where: Online IG event
Date: Tuesday the 2nd
Time: 8 pm
Address: Online event (Check to verify)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/da_poetry_lounge/ (Check to verify)
Book Talk: Ivan Maisel & I Keep Trying to Catch His Eye at American Jewish University – Online Event
Join Book Talk to hear author and Jewish sports writer and editor, Ivan Maisel, in conversation with AJU’s Rabbi Sherre Hirsch, discuss his book, I Keep Trying to Catch His Eye, about the tragically transformative reality of losing a child.
In February 2015, Maisel received a call that would change his life forever; his son Max’s car was found abandoned in a parking lot next to Lake Ontario. Two months later Max’s body was found in the lake. There’d been no obvious indication Max wanted to harm himself, and this uncertainty became part of his father’s grief.
This is a deeply human and empathetic story of a father and son’s relationship, of its complications, and of their struggle to connect. Navigating both their complicated relationship and their love, the author explores the bridges he tried to build and the grief that engulfed him and his family after Max’s death by suicide
NOTE: See site for event details and to purchase book.
Where: American Jewish University (AJU) – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 3rd
Time: 12 pm – 12:45 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1025414784927464/
Scholastic Parent Night: “Graphix Got Me Reading” via Pages Bookstore & Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Event
Join the Pages and Once Upon a Time Bookstores & Scholastic for a free and virtual Parent Night, focusing on the reading of graphic novels and how they can build your child’s reading skills.
The information provided will share how graphic novels can help the most reluctant readers become lifelong readers. Stop by after the event to pick up some swag for Scholastic and shop some of the books shared during the session.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Pages Bookstore & Once Upon a Time Bookstore– Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 3rd
Time: 4 pm
Address: Pages & Once Upon a Time – Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/scholastic-parent-night-graphix-got-me-reading or https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/graphix-got-me-reading
Denise Williams & Jane Igharo in Conversation via The Ripped Bodice Bookstore – Online Livestream Event
Join us at our Live Stream Virtual Event with authors Denise Williams & Jane Igharo in conversation about all things romance!
They will discuss their recent book releases: THE FASTEST WAY TO FALL and THE SWEETEST REMEDY, respectively.
NOTE: See site for guidelines & event details.
Where: The Ripped Bodice – Online Livestream Event
Date: Wednesday the 3rd
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.therippedbodicela.com/events-and-tickets
Writing Workshop with Matt Sedillo via Re/Arte Centro Literario – In-Person Event
Join us for a writing workshop, hosted by Chicano Political Poet, Matt Sedillo.
Matt Sedillo is an El Sereno native, a political activist, speaker, and writer, and author of the poetry collection, Mowing Leaves of Grass (Flowersong Press, 2019).
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Re/Arte Centro Literario – In-Person event
Date: Wednesday the 3rd
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar E. Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 900333
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
Open Mic: Grito De Boyle Heights via Re/Arte Centro Literario – In-Person Event
Join us for an Open Mic: Grito De Boyle Heights, offered twice every month. This event is hosted by Sammy Quetzalli, and it follows the Matt Sedillo Workshop.
Sammy Quetzalli is a poet, activist and musician, and the host of Grito De Boyle Heights Open Mic, held every 2nd & 4th Wednesday if the month.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Re/Arte Centro Literario – In-Person event
Date: Wednesday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar E. Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 900333
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
Farah Ali, with Dana Johnson, & People Who Want to Live via Chevalier’s Bookstore – In-Store Event
Join us for an In-Store event to hear author Farah Ali, in conversation with author Dana Johnson, discuss her debut collection of stories, People Want to Live, which features stories of togetherness and reckless faith in the face of a world that’s built to break us.
Set in Pakistan, these award-winning stories follow people living on the brink of abandonment—in their personal relationships and in their place in the world. All characters battle loneliness and, in their fight, reveal surprising vulnerabilities and astonishing measures of hope.
Farah Ali is from Pakistan. Her work has been anthologized in the 2020 Pushcart Prize as well as received special mention in the 2018 Pushcart anthology. Her stories have appeared in Shenandoah, The Arkansas International, The Southern Review, Kenyon Review online, Copper Nickel, Ecotone, The Colorado Review, and elsewhere. People Want to Live is her first collection.
Dana Johnson is the author of the short story collection In the Not Quite Dark (Counterpoint, 2016). She is also the author of Break Any Woman Down, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and the novel Elsewhere, California. Both books were nominees for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, Callaloo, The Iowa Review and Huizache, among others, and anthologized in Watchlist: 32 Stories by Persons of Interest, Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women, and California Uncovered: Stories for the 21st Century. Born and raised in and around Los Angeles, she is a professor of English at the University of Southern California.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – In-Store event
Date: Wednesday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 133 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/nov-3-farah-ali
Skylight at Philosophical Research Society: Mary Gaitskill, with Danzy Senna, & The Devil’s Treasure via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Skylight Books & Philosophical Research Society present acclaimed author Mary Gaitskill, in conversation with author Danzy Senna, to discuss her new novel, The Devil’s Treasure: A Book of Stories and Dreams.
In The Devil’s Treasure, Gaitskill has created a chimerical fiction; a hybrid novel that mines the origins of previous work to produce an entirely new story. This collage of five works (one a work in progress), interspersed with and thematically linked by a single short story, then woven together with the author’s commentary, is a kind of metafictional director’s cut revealing the personal and societal forces that went into each individual piece of work. The Devil’s Treasure is an ongoing, passionate exploration of core human emotions and experience, from the ideally high to the grossly, confusedly low. With the stylistic daring and preternatural acuity that has made her one of America’s most original writers, Gaitskill has created a layered vision of modern life, one in which prehistoric leviathans haunt the depths of our collective ocean at the same time that a family picnics on the beach, a podcast natters about politics and, perhaps, a curious child wanders dangerously close to the shore.
Mary Gaitskill is the author of Bad Behavior, Two Girls, Fat and Thin, Because They Wanted To, Veronica, Don’t Cry, The Mare, Somebody with a Little Hammer, and This Is Pleasure. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories.
Danzy Senna is the author of five books of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels Caucasia, Symptomatic, and most recently, New People, named one of the best books of the year by Time, Vogue and the New York Times. Senna is a recipient of the Whiting Award and the Dos Passos Prize for Literature. She teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.
NOTE: See site for event details, guidelines, tickets, and to purchase book.
Where: Skylight Bookstore at Philosophical Research Society – Off-site event
Date: Wednesday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 3910 Los Feliz Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Father Gregory Boyle & The Whole Language: The Power of Extravagant Tenderness via Village Well Bookstore & at St. Augustine Church – Off-site & On-site Events
Acclaimed author and priest Father Gregory Boyle has transformed thousands of lives over the past 30 years at homeboy Industries, the largest and most successful gang intervention program in the world. Boyle’s third book, following Tatttoos on the Heart, and Barking to the Choir, is followed by The Whole Language, which shows how those at Homeboy Industries fight despair and remain generous, hopeful, and tender.
These moving stories challenge our ideas about God and about people, providing a window into a world filled with fellowship, compassion, and fewer barriers, and inviting us to treat others—and ourselves—with acceptance and tenderness.
NOTE: See site for event details, tickets to reception, and to purchase book. All proceeds donated to Homeboy Industries.
Where: Village Well Bookstore & Off-site at St. Augustine Church, Culver City
Date: Wednesday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm (VIP reception at store, 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm)
Address: 3850 Jasmine Ave., Culver City, CA 90230
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events
Anansi Virtual Writers Workshop via The World Stage – In-Person 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.
We return to the building after a 15-month, Covid-19 imposed exile, where the faithful met weekly via Zoom online. We are currently working on the process to continue to include our online community each session. WELCOME HOME!
In its 30th year, the Anansi Writers Workshop is a workshop 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.
NOTE: See site for further details, and any change in the schedule. Contact kaliflowers@gmial.com or call (323) 293-2451
Where: The World Stage (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 3rd
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: 4321 Dengan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: https://www.theworldstage.org/events.html or https://www.facebook.com/events/2956323654627810/
Skylight Treehouse & LAPL Present: Lilliam Rivera & We Light Up the Sky via Skylight Bookstore – Online YA Event
Skylight Treehouse & LAPL present award-winning author Lilliam Rivera to discuss her new YA novel, We Light Up the Sky, presented in partnership with Punk Rock Marthas.
We Light Up the Sky explores the haunting story of an alien invasion from the perspective of three Latinx teens, who wonder: Should you save a world that doesn’t want to save you?
Pedro, Luna, and Rafa may attend Fairfax High together in Los Angeles, but they run in separate spheres. They find themselves thrown together when an extraterrestrial visitor lands in their city and takes the form of Luna’s cousin Tasha. Soon they struggle to survive and warn others of what’s coming, But they wonder who their true enemy is – the alien or their fellow human beings.
NOTE: See site for event details and to purchase book.
Where: Skylight Bookstore & LAPL – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 3rd
Time: 8 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop via Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
Join Beyond Baroque’s longest running free poetry workshop via Zoom online as we welcome new and seasoned poets to share their work and provide feedback. Facilitators are rotated quarterly, and the current facilitator is Joseph Rios.
Joseph Rios is the author of Shadowboxing: Poems and Impersonations (Omnidawn), winner of the American Book Award, and was named one of the notable debut poets by Poets & Writers Magazine for 2017. He is currently attending the low residency MFA program at Bennington College.
NOTE: See site for further details, tickets and information.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 3rd
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Poetry Readings by Two Idiots Peddling Poetry at The Ugly Mug – In-Person Event
Join Ben Trigg and Two Idiots Peddling Poetry at the Ugly Mug on Wednesday Nights.
Details pending. Features TBA
$4 cover fee, cash only. Masks are required unless eating or drinking.
NOTE: See site for further details, guidelines & information.
Where: The Ugly Mug, Orange
Date: Wednesday the 27th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 261 N. Glassell St., Orange, CA 92866
Website: https://www.facebook.com/Two-Idiots-Peddling-Poetry/ (Check to confirm)
Harry Freedman, with David Boucher, & Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius via Book Soup – Online Event
Please join author Harry Freedman, in conversation with David Boucher, to hear him discuss his new book, Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius.
The author notes that Leonard Cohen’s music is studded with allusions to Jewish and Christian tradition, as well as Kabbalah and Zen, and the book explores the ethos, origins, and traditions in Cohen’s lyrics. It looks deep into the soul and imagination of one of the greatest singers and lyricists of our time. It is not a biography but a biographical narrative into the treatment of each song or theme, so we have a good understanding of his life’s story.
NOTE: See site for book purchase & event details.
Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 4th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/harry-freedman-leonard-cohen-mystical-roots-genius
LA Made Presents: Danny Trejo, in conversation with Donal Logue, & Trejo: My life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood via LAPL – Online FB & YouTube Event
Please join actor and author Danny Trejo, in conversation with Donal Logue, to hear him discuss his memoir Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood.
As part of the LA Made series of events from the Los Angeles Public Library, LAPL is thrilled to host legendary actor, restauranteur, and intervention counselor, Danny Trejo, in conversation with co-author Donal Logue, followed by an audience Q&A.
This is a free event, and those attending will have a chance to win a copy of the book.
NOTE: See site for book purchase & event details.
Where: LAPL: LA Made – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 4th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/la-made-presents-conversation-danny-trejo
Celebrating Bibliophile: Diverse Spines with Jamise Harper & Jane Mount via Bel Canto Bookstore – Online Event
Join Bel Canto for this, free, ticketed, online event: Celebrating Bibliophile: Diverse Spines with Jamise Harper & Jane Mount. This is a new anthology celebrating BIPOC + queer authors, and our conversation will be moderated by Saumya Dave.
Diverse Spines is a richly illustrated collection that uplifts the work of authors who are often underrepresented in the literary world. It includes: dozens of themed illustrated book stacks, all emphasizing authors of color and from diverse backgrounds; reading recommendations; those bookstores owned by Black, Indigenous, and POC individuals, including Bel Canto!
Where: Bel Canto Bookstore – Online Event (see site for details)
Date: Thursday the 4th
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: Online Event(See Site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/617476575906200 or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrating-bibiliophile-diverse-spines-with-jamise-harper-jane-mount-tickets170099124059?aff=efbeventtix&fbclid=IwAR1rUdO2VxnWc7YQFfCQGdhQF0fdWQU4fgNvFK8YYYuJhx2zdw5_MsCC5o8
Mauricio Novoa & Memorias from the Beltway Poetry Reading via LibroMobile Bookstore – Online Event
Join LibroMobile for an IG online event, featuring Mauricio Novoa reading Memorias from the Beltway via a virtual poetry reading.
Mauricio Novoa is a poet form Glenmont, MD, but he’s currently based in Austin, TX and received his MFA from Queens University of Charlotte. His poems have been published in the anthology The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States, The Penguin Review, Ascentos Review, Blue Mesa Review, Latino Book Review, and the anthology The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext.
Where: LibroMobile Bookstore – Online IG Event (see site for details)
Date: Thursday the 4th
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: Online Event(See Site)
Jackie Lau, with Ruby Lang, & Donut Fall in Love Launch Event via The Ripped Bodice Bookstore – Online Livestream Event
Join us at our Live Stream Virtual Event with author Jackie Lau, in conversation with Ruby Lang, to celebrate Jackie’s launch of Donut Fall in Love.
The authors will chat about all things contemporary romance.
NOTE: See site for guidelines & event details.
Where: The Ripped Bodice – Online Livestream Event
Date: Thursday the 4th
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.therippedbodicela.com/events-and-tickets
Father Gregory Boyle & The Whole Language: The Power of Extravagant Tenderness via Vroman’s Bookstore at All Saints Church – Off-site Event
Acclaimed author and priest Father Gregory Boyle has transformed thousands of lives over the past 30 years at homeboy Industries, the largest and most successful gang intervention program in the world. Boyle’s third book, following Tatttoos on the Heart, and Barking to the Choir, is followed by The Whole Language, which shows how those at Homeboy Industries fight despair and remain generous, hopeful, and tender.
These moving stories challenge our ideas about God and about people, providing a window into a world filled with fellowship, compassion, and fewer barriers, and inviting us to treat others—and ourselves—with acceptance and tenderness.
NOTE: See site for tickets, event details and to purchase book.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore at All Saints Church, Pasadena
Date: Thursday the 4th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 132 N. Euclid Ave., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/vromans-presents-father-greg-boyle-whole-language
Conversation with Natalie Baszile & We Are Each Other’s Harvest at Village Well Bookstore, Culver City – On-site Event
Author Natalie Baszile will be in conversation with us when she presents her new book, We Are Each Other’s Harvest. From the author of Queen Sugar, comes Baszile’s new book, We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy. This is a beautiful exploration of Black farming in America, with essays and personal accounts, and with stunning color photographs. These pieces dissect the legacy of these farmers, illuminate how they persevered in the face of injustice over generations, and is an incisive blend of academic, creative, and real-world perspectives to provide us an inspirational history and tribute to resilience
NOTE: See site for event details and to purchase book.
Where: Village Well Bookstore, Culver City
Date: Thursday the 4th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd., #1B, Culver city, CA 90230
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events
Tonalli Thursday Open Mic Event via L.A. Poet Society – Online Zoom Event
Join us at Tonalli Thursday Open Mic, offered every Thursday of the month by LAPS.
All artists are welcome. Featured readers TBA.
NOTE: See site for guidelines & event details.
Where: Tonalli Studio – Online Zoom Event
Date: Thursday the 4th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.lapoetsociety.org/events (Check to veirfy)
At Skylight: Natasha Deon, with Minda Harts, & The Perishing Book Launchvia Skylight Bookstore – In-Store Event
Author Natasha Deon (Grace), in conversation with author Minda Harts (Right Within, The Memo) will present and discuss her new novel, The Perishing.
In her second novel, following her acclaimed debut in Grace, attorney and author Natasha Deon, writes the story of a Black immortal in 1930s Los Angeles who must recover the memory of her past in order to save the world, in this extraordinarily affecting novel for readers of N.K. Jemison and Octavia E. Butler.
Set against the rich historical landscape of Depression-era Los Angeles, The Perishing charts a course through a changing city confronting racism, poverty, and the drumbeat of a coming war for one miraculous woman whose fate is inextricably linked to the city she comes to call home.
Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in 1930s Los Angeles, nearly naked and with no memory of how she got there or where she’s from, only a fleeting sense that this isn’t the first time she’s found herself in similar circumstances. Lou begins to believe she may be an immortal sent to this place and time for a very important reason, one that only others like her will be able to explain. Relying on her journalistic training and with the help of her friends, Lou sets out to investigate the mystery of her existence and make sense of the jumble of lifetimes calling to her from throughout the ages before her time runs out for good.
Natashia Deón is an NAACP Image Award Nominee, practicing criminal attorney, and college professor. A Pamela Krasney Moral Courage Fellow, Deón is the author of the critically acclaimed debut novel, Grace, which was named a Best Book by The New York Times. Deón has been awarded fellowships by PEN America, Prague Summer Program for Writers, Dickinson House in Belgium, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Minda Harts is the CEO of The Memo LLC and an award- winning and best-selling author of The Memo: What Women of Color Need To Know To Secure A Seat At The Table. Minda is a Professor at NYU Wagner and hosts a live weekly podcast called Secure The Seat. In 2020, she was named the #1 Top Voice for Equity in the workplace by Linkedin. She is an Aspen Ideas Festival Scholar and has been featured on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Fast Company, The NY Times, and Time Magazine. She frequently speaks at companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Nike, and Bloomberg on topics such as Managing Diverse Teams, Courageous Leadership, and Advancing women of color in the workplace.
NOTE: See site for guidelines, event details, and to purchase book.
Where: Skylight Books – On-site Event
Date: Thursday the 4th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N, Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-natashia-deón-launches-her-novel-perishing-minda-harts
CSULA’s Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics and Humanities in the City presents: A Poetry Reading with Sesshu Foster – On-site Event
Join CSULA’s Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics for a poetry reading by Sesshu Foster.
Sesshu Foster taught composition and literature in East L.A. for 35 years, and has taught writing at the University of Iowa, the California Institute for the Arts, UC Santa Cruz, Occidental College, Pomona College, and others. His most recent books are City of the Future and ELADATL: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air TransportlInes, co-written with illustrator Arturo E. Romo, and published by City Lights in 2021. This is an all ages event, and masks and proof of vaccinations are required.
NOTE: See site for further details, guidelines & information.
Where: 2220 Arts + Archives
Date: Thursday the 4th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 2220 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90057
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/250259870373928
Kal Penn & You Can’t Be Serious via LiveTalks LA – Hybrid: Aratani Theatre & On-site Event
Join LiveTalks LA to hear actor and author Kal Penn, in conversation with actor and filmmaker Jon Favreau, discussing his memoir You Can’t Be Serious.
In You Can’t Be Serious, Kal Penn recounts why he rejected the advice of his aunties and guidance counselors and, instead of becoming a doctor or “something practical,” embarked on a surprising journey that has included acting, writing, working as a farmhand, teaching Ivy League University courses, and smoking fake weed with a fake President of the United States, before serving the country and advising a real one.
NOTE: See site for further details, costs, guidelines & information.
Where: LiveTalks LA – Hybrid Event at Aratani Theater & Online (virtual version available on Nov, 9 at 6pm)
Date: Thursday the 4th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 244 San Pedro St., Los Angeles, CA 90012 or Online Event (see site)
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/kal-penn/
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 4th
Time: 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/fos_thursdays/ (Confirm at site)
Author Reading: Sikivu Hutchinson & Rock ‘n’ Roll Heretic at The Book Jewel – In-Store Event
Rock out with us with at an Author Reading and Guitar Performance from artist Sikivu Hutchinson, who will be reading form her novel, Rock ‘n’ Roll Heretic.
Where: The Book Jewel, Westchester – In-Person Event
Date: Friday the 5th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 6259 W. 87th St., Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: https://www.facebook.com/BookJewelBookstore or https://www.facebook.com/BookJewelBookstore/photos/a.104096281005518/592616585486816/
Danny Goldberg, with Michael Des Barres, & Bloody Crossroads 2020 via Book Soup – Online Event
Please join author, music executive and manager Danny Goldberg, in conversation with Michael Des Barres, to hear him discuss his new book, Bloody Crossroads 2020.
In this book the author takes a deep dive into the role that mass-appeal; movies, TV. Videos, and music played in America’s political culture in the year of Donald Trump’s failed reelection campaign. The book also explores the impact of entertainment celebrities in communications, fundraising, and campaigning to support the election of Joe Biden.
NOTE: See site for book purchase & event details.
Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Friday the 5th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event
Christina Diaz Gonazalez, with James Ponti, & Concealed via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Author Christina Diaz Gonzalez, in conversation with James Ponti, will present and discuss her novel, Concealed.
This novel is about Katrina, who has gone by other names, who doesn’t know any details about her past, but she does know that she and her parents are part of the Witness Protection Program. When their location leaks, and her parents disappear, she’s forced to embark on a dangerous rescue mission. Karina and her new friend Parker set out to save her parents and find out about her secret past. But every new discovery reveals her life has been built on secrets and lies, so now she must decide if learning the truth is worth the price of losing everything.
NOTE: See site for tickets, event details and to purchase book.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Friday the 5th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
ZerO Books Presents: Cyberdystopia Author Panel via Stories Books & Café – On-Site Event
Join us when zerO books, a left-wing imprint form the UK, presents Our Cyberdystopia, a conversation among authors about today’s digital dystopia and the decline of American Empire.
The author panel includes:
Ru Sirius is a writer, editor, talk show host, musician, and cyberculture celebrity.
Jason Myles is a podcaster and lead singer in the Heavy Metal band Bitter Lake.
Daniel Bessner is a historian of U.S. foreign relations, and podcaster.
Kyra Nicole Rogers is a screenwriter, director, author and futurist.
NOTE: See site for guidelines & event details.
Where: Stories Books & Café, Echo Park – In-Person Event
Date: Friday the 5th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 1716 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
Website: https://storiesla.com/?q=h.calevents
Elizabeth Metzger, with Paul Tran + Callie Siskel, & Bed via Skylight Bookstore – In-Store Event
Join us to hear writer and author Elizabeth Metzger, in conversation with authors Paul Tran + Callie Siskel, to discuss and celebrate her chapbook, Bed, which won the 2021 Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, selected by Mark Bibbins. She is also the author of Lying In, forthcoming from Milkweed in 2022.
Bed is a remarkable collection of poems which Bibbins declares “act as both repositories and engines of mystery,,, yet it’s never coy. There’s a difference between hiding information and asserting control over how it’s revealed.”
Elizabeth Metzger’s poems have been published in the New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry Magazine, American Poetry Review, and others. Her prose has been published in Conjunctions, Literary Hub, Guernica, and Boston Review. She is a poetry editor at The Los Angeles Review of Books.
Callie Siskel is the author of Arctic Revival, selected by Elizabeth Alexander for a 2014 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her poems appear in Ploughshares, A Public Space, Yale Review, and other journals. She is a 2020-22 Wallace Stegner Fellow, a Dornsife Doctoral Fellow in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California, and a poetry editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Paul Tran is the author of the debut poetry collection, All the Flowers Kneeling, forthcoming from Penguin Poets in February 2022. Their work appears in The New Yorker, The Nation, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. A recipient of the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize, as well as fellowships from the Poetry Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, Paul is currently a Visiting Faculty in Poetry at Pacific University MFA in Writing and a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, details, and book purchase.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Friday the 5th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-elizabeth-metzger-callie-siskel-paul-tran
The Return of S.W.A.A.M Spoken Word Art & Music Series & Open Mic, with Ashley Wilkerson at The Creative House – On-site Event
Join the Return of SWAAM Spoken Word Art & Music, with featured artists, offered on the 1st & 3rd Friday of the month. Featured artist this week is Ashley Wilkerson. is an actress, poet and wellness practitioner, whose love of storyteliing began in her childhood in Texas, and continued at The New School. She’s also a respected teacher and stars in the upcoming film, The Bond. She is a published author and poet, including Midnight Verses Morning Poems, and her work has been commissioned and performed widely. Her second book is forthcoming and called Reverence.
Share your voice at the Open Mic, and enjoy a live band, catered food, drinks, wine bar, VIP booths. Organized by Lorenzo Frank.
NOTE: See site for guidelines & event details. Tickets via Eventbrite, $5 – $280.
Where: SWAAM Open Word Event – “The Creative House”
Date: Friday the 5th
Time: 8 pm – 11 pm
Address: 12214 Market St., Inglewood, CA 90301
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/swaam-spoken-word-art-music-tickets-198724017887
First Fridays Rapp Saloon Reading Series, with Cynthia Alessandra Briano via Rapp Saloon – Online Event
Join First Fridays at Rapp Saloon Open Mic & Featured Readers, offered every First Friday of the month by host Cynthia Alessandra Briano.
Share your voice at the Open Mic, where there is a time limit of 4 minutes max. Sign-ups are at 8:15 pm. Zoom ID posted 3 hours prior to event.
NOTE: See site for guidelines & event details. Features TBA.
Where: Rapp Saloon – Online Event
Date: Friday the 5th
Time: 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online event
Creative Writing Workshop via LAwritersgroup.com – Online Zoom 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 6th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1256929638015809/
Western Edge Writers Workshop via Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Writers and aspiring writers are invited to meet to support the writing endeavors of all genres. Join us via Zoom for prompted writing exercises and constructive critique of your work.
Please email shannah@lapl.org, for the Zoom login information.
Where: Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL – Online
Date: Saturday the 6th
Time: 10 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/western-edge-writers
Parker Curry & Jessica Curry & Parker Shines On Book Launch & Storytime via Children’s Book World – Online Event
Authors Parker Curry & Jessica Curry will share a storytime and book launch of the latest in their series, Parker Shines On.
There will be a reading, and a talk about their new picture book, in which six-year-old Parker Curry and his bestselling author mom share their family adventures.
Where: Children’s Book World – Online
Date: Saturday the 6th
Time: 10:30 am – 11 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Poetry & Oral Histories: How to Honor Memory Writing Workshop with Cynthia Guardado via Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
Join Beyond Baroque via Zoom online as we present a Writing Workshop led by poet Cynthia Guardado: Poetry & Oral Histories: How to Honor Memory.
This workshop reimagines writing about family history and personal history in a way that honors your voice and memory. It will ask you to dive into fragmented memories and incomplete histories in order to help you create a method for telling these stories
Cynthia Guardado (she/her/hers) is a Los Angeles born Salvadoran poet and professor, and the author of two collections of poetry: forthcoming Cenizas (University of Arizona Press) and ENDEAVOR (World Stage Press, 2017). Her work has appeared in numerous journals. She won the Concurso Binacional De Poesia Pellicer-Frost in 2017 (Mexico) and Cenizas was a finalist for the National Poetry Series in 2019.
One scholarship will be awarded to a QTPOC/BIPOC LA-residing individual who would like to join but does not have the means to do so. Please email us if interested to info@beyondbsaroque.org.
NOTE: See site for further details, cost, tickets and information.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Saturday the 30th
Time: 11 am – 2 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/intensive_workshops.html or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-oral-histories-how-to-honor-memory-with-cynthia-guardado-tickets-185356886437
Special Storytime with Victoria Kann & Rublicious via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Kids Event
Join us to hear author-artist Victoria Kann present and read her new children’s book Rubylicious, the latest in the Pinkalicious series. This story is about generosity and kindness, and looks at how being selfless in sharing treats can be its own reward.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, details, and book purchase.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Kids Event
Date: Saturday the 6th
Time: 11 am
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/special-storytime-victoria-kann-presents-rubylicious
Benjamin Villegas & ELPASO: A Punk Story at Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Join us to hear Benjamin Villegas present his book, ELPASO: A Punk Story.
In 2015, Benjamin Villegas traveled to Texas in an attempt to write the biography of a music group that could have changed the history of rock: ELPASO, a long-since defunct Chicano band from the U.S.-Mexico border with a punk sensibility and little left to remember it by but a suitcase of fanzines and one-off recordings.
This is the story of one of the many bands that will never appear in rock n’ roll history books, but are at the core of the scene; a band that earned its stripes from sweaty fans and self-taught rock aficionados in basements, garages, and small venues across the country. This is the story of two kids who came together to embrace the punk ethos of the 80’s and be a part of the rock n’ roll revolution sweeping the US, a world of the Ramones, Black Flag, and, of course, ELPASO.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Saturday the 6th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-benja-villegas-presents-elpaso-punk-story
Writer’s Workshop with Viva Padilla via RE/ARTE Centro Literario – In-Person Event
Join us for an introduction to submitting your writing to journals and magazines. Incudes career advice, and writing feedback. Bring your work and a notebook.
NOTE: See website for registration, donation, and further details.
Where: Re/Arte Centro Literario – In-Person Event
Date: Saturday the 6th
Time: 1 pm – 2:30 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
In-Store Signing: Liara Roux & Whore of New York at Skylight Bookstore – In-Store Event
Join us at Skylight when author Liara Roux sign her new book, Whore of New York: a confession.
Why would someone ever voluntarily become a sex worker? Liara Roux writes about the salacious details leading up to her decision to become a career sex worker, and the unexpected truths she learned while working in the industry.
Liara Roux is a sex worker and political organizer living in New York City. She writes a semi-fictional comic and articles about sex worker’s rights, produces and stars in porn, and is generally up to no good.
NOTE: See website for further details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – In-Store Event
Date: Saturday the 6th
Time: 2 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/store-signing-liara-roux-author-whore-new-york
Afternoon Poetry with Kristian Kidd at My Place Café – In-Person Event
Join us for a poetry reading with Kristian Kidd, an Altadena poet who has been featured in Spectrum Publishing. Come to hear him read to us form his work.
NOTE: See website for further details.
Where: My Place Café – In-Person Event
Date: Saturday the 6th
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: 2057 N. Los Robles Ave., Unit #10, Pasadena, CA 91104
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/553239519102146
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Poetry Writing Workshop – Online Event
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a Poetry Writing Workshop led by Don Kingfisher Campbell. See Site for details and submission criteria.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Online at Zoom ID: 759 9367 3202 (no spaces required); P/W: poetry.
Date: Saturday the 6th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
La Immaculada: Selected works by Conchi Sanford & Book Release and Poetry Reading by Cindy Rinne, at Neon Moon Studio – On-site Event
Join us at Neon Moon Art Supply & Studio of an exhibit of selected works and a solo art show by artist Conchi Sanford and a book release and poetry reading by poet Cindy Rinne. This is the opening celebration of an exhibition on view from November 6 to November 27, 2021 at Neon Moon in Claremont.
Cindy Rinne’s most recent collection is titled, Words Become Ashes, a collection published in July 2021.
Where: Neon Moon Art Supply & Studio
Date: Saturday the 6th (opening); on view through November 27th.
Time: 6 pm – 9 pm
Address: 317 W. First St., Claremont, CA 91711
Website: https://www.facebook.com/cindy.rinne.5/posts/10209445812219888
UNFORGETTING: Roberto Lovato with Hector Tobar at RE/ARTE Centro Literario – In-Person Event
Join us at RE/ARTE to hear a conversation between journalist and author Roberto Lovato and acclaimed author Hector Tobar at Re/Arte!
Roberto Lovato, author of UNFORGETTING, will be in conversation with acclaimed author Hector Tobar, about his book and about publishing, poetics, and memoria.
Roberto Lovato is the author of Unforgetting, a groundbreaking memoir The New York Times picked as an Editor’s Choice and hailed as a family saga, coming-of-age story, and meditation on history, community and identity. Lovato is an educator, journalist and writer based at the Writers Grotto in San Francisco, and co-founder of #DignidadLiteria, as well as an activist and reporter on numerous issues, including violence, terrorism, the drug war and the refugee crisis.
Hector Tobar is the author of five books published in fifteen languages, including the New York Times bestseller: Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine and the Miracle That Set Them Free. His most recent book is The Last Great Road Bum. He is a contributing writer for the New York Times opinion pages, and an associate professor at UC Irvine.
NOTE: See website for further details.
Where: RE/ARTE – In-Person Event
Date: Saturday the 6th
Time: 6:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos or https://www.facebook.com/ReArteLA/photos/183886867253472
At the Philosophical Research Society: Megan Rosenbloom, with Chris Connelly & Dark Archives via Skylight Bookstore – Off-site Event
Join us to hear author Megan Rosenbloom, in conversation with Chris Connelly, discuss her book, Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Found in Human Skin.
Dark Archives seeks out the truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy—the practice of binding books in the most intimate covering. It untangles the myths around their creation and reckoning with the ethics of their custodianship.
NOTE: See site for guidelines, details, and book purchase.
Where: Skylight Bookstore at Philosophical Research Society– Off-site Event
Date: Saturday the 6th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 3910 Los Feliz Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Book Club in the Park & Witch Please by Ann Aguirre at The Ripped Bodice Bookstore – Off-Site In-Person Event
Join us at our Off-site Book Club Event at The Actor’s Gang, where we will discuss our November selection, Witch Please, by author Ann Aguirre. This rom-com story is about a romance between a witch and an adorable baker who is cursed in love.
We will chat about the book and all things contemporary romance. Feel free to bring your own snacks and drinks, as well as blanket, beach chair or camp chair.
NOTE: See site for guidelines & event details.
Where: The Ripped Bodice at The Actor’s Gang – Off-site In-Person Event
Date: Sunday the 7th
Time: 12 pm
Address: The Actor’s Gang, Venice Blvd. at Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA
Website: https://www.therippedbodicela.com/events-and-tickets
Marie Northrup Lecture Series: Dr. Geraldine Knatz & Port Los Angeles at Central Library, LAPL – On-site Event
Author Dr. Geraldine Knatz will present and discuss her new book, Port Los Angeles, presented by the LPLA’s History & Genealogy Department.
The author worked nearly four decades at the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach, her last eight years as the Executive Director of Los Angeles Harbor, and has previously written about the Harbor Department and Terminal Island.
There will be a book signing following the presentation.
NOTE: See site for registration, book purchase, guidelines and event details.
Where: Mark Taper Auditorium, Central Library, LAPL – On-site
Date: Sunday the 7th
Time: 2 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: 630 W. 5th St., Los Angeles. CA 90071
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/marie-northrup-lecture-series-port-los-angeles
Open Words Poetry Reading & Open Mic at Ironbark Ciderworks, Claremont – In-Person Patio Event
Join us when Open Words Poetry Reading series returns to Ironbark Ciderworks, to be held on their outside patio area.
Come early and sign up to read your poetry or other creative work or just come to listen and enjoy. Admission is free (drink purchase encouraged, though not required). Everyone is welcome!
NOTE: See website for guidelines & event details.
Where: Ironbark Ciderworks – In-Person Event on outside patio area
Date: Sunday the 7th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 1429 N. Claremont Blvd., #107B, Claremont, CA 917111
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/234733522028940
Stanlei Beilan & T Is For Time Travel: A collection of timely short stories via Pages Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join Pages Bookstore to welcome author and South Bay local, Staniel Beilan to celebrate his short story collection, T Is for Time Travel: A collection of timely short stories.
This book reads like a love letter from the golden Age of science fiction, and will make you smile to enjoy the clever use of narrative and concepts which make time into an almost Loki-esque character, lurking behind this collection of armchair thought-experiments about the nature of time. There will be plenty of laughs along the way.
NOTE: See website for tickets, guidelines & event details.
Where: Pages Bookstore – In-Person Event
Date: Sunday the 7th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/stanlei-bellan-time-travel
Live on Crowdcast: Eugene Lim & Susan Daitch in Conversation at Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Join Skylight Books online for a conversation between authors Eugene Lim and Susan Daitch, as they present their new books: Search History and Siege of Comedians, respectively.
Eugene Lim’s Search History oscillates between a wild cyberdog chase and lunch date monologues as he reconstructs grieving and storytelling with uncanny juxtapositions and subversive satire. It’s a rich, inventive masterpiece that rewards multiple readings, to tell a picaresque tale about race and American culture, AI, art making storytelling and much more.
Susan Daitch’s Siege of Comedians is a novel in triptych told through interconnected threads pulled taught by crimes long ago relegated to history. Told in three parts, and connected across time by intersecting crimes and themes, it is part political thriller, part comic noir, and reflects on the current refugee crisis, human trafficking, and identity.
NOTE: See site for tickets and further details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Sunday the 31st
Time: 3 pm
Address: Onine Event (see site)
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-halloween-storytime
VCP SoCal Poets Presents: Ashaki M. Jackson, Lisa Eve Cheby & Xoxhitl-Julisa Bermejo Reading – Online Event
Join VCP SoCal Poets to hear three spectacular poets read and share their work on the virtual stage.
Dr. Ashaki M. Jackson is the author of two chapter-length collections and the Executive Editor of The Offing literary magazine. Readers may find her poetry and essays in Obsidian, 7×7 LA, CURA, Prairie Schooner, Midnight Breakfast, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and Bettering American Poetry, among other publications. She earned her MFA (poetry) from Antioch University Los Angeles and her doctorate (social psychology) from Claremont Graduate University.
Lisa Eve Cheby, a librarian, poet, and daughter of immigrants, holds an MFA from Antioch and an MLIS from SJSU. Her poems and reviews have appeared in various journals and anthologies, including Drawn to Marvel, Coiled Serpent, and Accolades. She was a SAFTA Writer in Residence and an artist in residence at Dorland Mountain Arts. Her chapbook, Love Lessons from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Dancing Girl Press) was featured in The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed Series. Her second chapbook, Buffy Averts a Mid-Life Apocalypse, will be released by Dancing Girl Press in Fall 2021. http://lisacheby.wordpress.com
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo is the daughter of Mexican immigrants and the author of Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge (Sundress Publications 2016). A former Steinbeck Fellow, Poets & Writers California Writers Exchange winner, and Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grantee, she’s received residencies from Hedgebrook, Ragdale, National Parks Arts Foundation, and Poetry Foundation. She has work published in Acentos Review, CALYX, crazyhorse, [Pank], and American Poetry Review among others. Most recently her poem, “Battlegrounds” was featured at The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day and On Being’s Poetry Unbound. She is cofounder and director of Women Who Submit.
From On Being’s Poetry Unbound with Pádráig O’ Tuama: “What moved me so much in the poem was the plight of it — how to honor the dead and, especially, how to honor the dead who have been perhaps deliberately forgotten or unnamed or left out of memory. “
NOTE: See site for tickets and further details. Zoom ID: 8255986 7543 PW: submit
Where: VCP SoCal Poets – Online Event
Date: Sunday the 7th
Time: 3 pm
Address: Onine Event (see site)
Sunday Jump Community Open Mic in Historic Filipino Town – Off-Site In-Person Event
Join us to start our 9th season of Sunday Jump community Open Mic Series in Historic Filipino Town at The Workers Center. Our theme is this year is “Un/rest to Restoration,” a reflection, a response, a conversation as we navigate the events of the past year and heal holistically coming out of it.
We have a limited capacity of 25 audience members inside, so you must register to be permitted into the venue. Overflow will be accommodated outside with access to vendors and audio/video of the show. We will also stream the event live on twitch.tv/thesundayjump.
NOTE: See site for RSVP. schedule, guidelines & event details.
Where: Sunday Jump – at Pilipino Workers Center – In-Person Event
Date: Sunday the 7th
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Address: 153 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, Ca 90026
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sunday-jump-community-open-mic-series-tickets-164459198891
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