Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Gina Shock, with Belinda Carlisle & James Duke Mason, & Made in Hollywood: All Access with the Go-Gos via Book Soup – Online Event
Join us to hear Go-Gos drummer Gina Shock, in conversation with Belinda Carlisle & James Duke Mason, present and discuss her book, Made in Hollywood: All Access with the Go-Gos.
The Go-Gos were the first all-female rock band to write their own songs, play their own instruments, and reach the top of the Billboard charts with their #1 album, Beauty and the Beat. Made in Hollywood is drummer Gina Shock’s personal account of the band, which includes a treasure trove of photos and memorabilia collected bver her 40-year career.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Monday the 8th
Time: 3 pm
Address: Book Soup – Online Event
Saraciea Fennell, with Mark Oshiro, Lilliam Rivera & Ingrid Rojas Contreras, & Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Please join writer/editor Saraciea Fennell, in conversation with contributors Mark Oshiro, Lilliam Rivera, & Ingrid Rojas Contreras to hear them discuss the new collection, Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora.
Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed is edited by The Bronx Is Reading founder Saraciea J. Fennell and is a ground-breaking anthology featuring an all-star cast of contributors who interrogate different myths and stereotypes about the Latinx diaspora, from ghost stories and superheroes, to memories in the kitchen and travels around the world, in addition to addiction and grief, to identity and bigotry, to finding love and speaking truth. Featured readers include:
Mark Oshiro is the award-winning young adult author of Anger is a Gift (2019) and Each of Us a Desert, as well as the middle grade debut, The Insiders. His upcoming novel co-authored with Rick Riordan is titled Percy Jackson.
Lilliam Rivera is an award-winning speaker and YA author of the novels Never Look Back, Dealing in Dreams, The Education of Margot Sanchez, as well as the Goldie Vance series for middle grade readers, and the stand-alone novel Barely Floating. Her new adult science fiction novel is We Light Up the Sky (2021) and a graphic novel for DC Comics, Unearthed: A Jessica Cruz Story (2021).
Ingrid Contreras Rojas is the author ofthe award-winning novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree, a mesmerizing debut inspired by her own life and set in Colombia at the height of Pablo Escobar’s violent reign, about a sheltered young girl and a teenage maid who strike an unlikely friendship that threatens to undo them both.
NOTE: See site for book purchase & event details.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Monday the 8th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Tana French, with Jamie Lee Curtis, & The Searcher via LiveTalks LA – Online Event
LiveTalks LA presents bestselling and prize-winning author Tana French, in conversation with actress and author Jamie Lee Curtis, to present and discuss her new novel The Searcher.
Tana French is the author of seven previous crime and suspense novels set in and around Ireland, and The Searcher is her first to feature an American protagonist. It’s a Western-inspired mystery rich with her same powerhouse characterizations and atmospherics. Cal Hooper has retired after 25 years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, and buys a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village to be his perfect escape. But when a local kid’s brother goes missing and he pressures him to investigate, Cal uncovers layers of darkness and secrets beneath his picturesque retreat.
Jamie Lee Curtis has demonstrated her versatility as a film actress, starring in acclaimed films such as the blockbuster True Lies, and many diverse films, from Trading Places to Freaky Friday to Halloween. Curtis is also a New York Times best-selling children’s book author having written 13 books.
NOTE: See site for book purchase, tickets, & event details.
Where: Live Talks LA – Online Event
Date: Monday the 8th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/tana-french/
Shaida Kafai, with Dr. Anita Tijerina Revilla, & Crip Kinship via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Join us to hear author Shaida Kafai, in conversation with Dr. Anita Tijerina Revilla, willpresent and discuss her new book, Crip Kinship, the remarkable story of Sins Invalid, a performance project that centers queer disability justice.
Crip Kinship explores the art activism of Sins Invalid, a San Francisco Bay Area-based performance project, and its radical imaginings of what disabled, queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming body-minds of color can do: how they can rewrite oppression, and how they can gift us with transformational lessons for our collective survival.
NOTE: See site for details and book purchase.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Monday the 8th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
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 8th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html
Jennifer E. Smith, with Leo Espinosa, & The Creature of Habit Book Launch – Online Kids Zoom Event
Join us for a book launch with children’s author Jennifer E. Smith, in conversation with illustrator Leo Espinosa, who will present and discuss her book, The Creature of Habit.
This bright and delightful children’s picture book is for creatures of habit, big and small, who might be surprised by the joy of trying something new. Can tow creatures learn to live with and appreciate each other on the island of Habit?
NOTE: See site for details and event link.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 9th
Time: 11 am
Address: Once Upon a Time Bookstore– Online Zoom Event
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/creature-habit
Treehouse Skylight & LAPL Present: K-FAI STEELE & All Eyes on Ozzy! – Online Kids Zoom Event
Join LAPL & Punk Rock Marthas in the Skylight Treehouse for a conversation with children’s author K-Fai Steele, who will present a funny and charming picture book about a girl who loves to be the center of attention, All Eyes on Ozzy!, from the author of A Normal Pig.
Ozzy loves attention. And the person she wants it from most of all is her music teacher, Ms. Bomba. So when it’s time to choose an instrument for the school recital, Ozzy picks the biggest, loudest, most attention-grabbing one of all: the DRUMS!
It’s hard to stay on beat, though, when all you want to do is stand out. But getting in tune with her classmates—with a little help from her favorite teacher—just might turn out to be even better than a solo in the spotlight.
NOTE: See site for details and event link.
Where: Skylight Bookstore & LAPL – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 9th
Time: 11 am
Address: LAPL & Skylight Bookstore– Online Zoom Event
Book Talk: Martin Indyk & Master of the Game via AJU – Online Event
Join AJU for a book talk with former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and author Martin Indyk, in conversation with AJU President Dr. Jeffrey Herbst, when they present and discuss his book, Master of the Game.
This book explores the roots of American diplomacy efforts in the Middle East and its operations behind closed doors. To gain a better understanding of America’s current position in Middle East peacemaking, the author returned to the origin of such efforts and Henry Kissinger’s diplomacy in the region. He closely analyzes and narrates each manipulation and counter manipulation amid a roster of larger-than-life characters.
NOTE: See site for details and event link.
Where: American Jewish University – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 9th
Time: 12 pm – 12:45 pm
Address: AJU – Online Event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1071344060353580
Jelani Cobb in Conversation & The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker Anthology via LAFL – Online Event
Join us for a conversation with Jelani Cobb, staff writer for The New Yorker, and historian and journalism professor at Columbia University, in conversation with writer Charlayne Hunter-Gault, will present a collection of The New Yorker’s groundbreaking writing on race and illuminating the work of James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Zadie Smith, and more.
The Writing of Black Lives is a new anthology of stories of endurance and resilience, strength and pain, and collects many great and influential voices in one volume.
NOTE: See site for details, tickets, and book purchase.
Where: ALOUD Reading Series – LFLA Online event
Date: Tuesday the 9th
Time: 5 pm
Address: LFLA online (see site)
Website: https://lfla.org/event/the-matter-of-black-lives-writing-from-the-new-yorker/
Literary Uprising Reading Series via Antioch University – Online Event
Join Antioch University’s MFA in Creative Writing Program for a Virtual Literary Uprising reading, featuring five stellar readers this quarter:
Pat Alderete is a writer at Writers at Work/Macondo Writers Workshop, and her short stories have been published in numerous journals. She has written two one-act plays: Ghost and the Spirit and Love and Fire, and her one-woman performance, Tina Gets Married.
Gleah Powers is an editor, writer, artist, and alternative life coach. She is the author of Million Dollar Red: A Memoir, and the author of the novel Edna and Luna.
Pete Hsu is the author of the forthcoming short story collection If I Were The Ocean, I’d Carry You Home (Red Hen Press, 2022) and the chapbook There Is a Man (Tolsun Books). His work has been featured in The Los Angeles Review, The Bare Life Review, F(r)iction Magazine, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and others.
Malia Marquez is the author of the debut novel This Fierce Blood (Arce Books), which combines magical realism with themes of maternal ancestral inheritance and explores life in rural New England and the American Southwest form the early 20th century to the present day.
Sarah Manguso is today’s MFA faculty reader. She is the author of the memoir Ongoingness, the aphoristic essay 300 Arguments, and the upcoming novel Very Cold People.
Have a mocktail or cocktail at home and listen to some amazing work! Sponsored by the BA Program and Two Hawks Quarterly Literary Journal, and Antioch University, Los Angeles.
NOTE: See site for details & link.
Where: Literary Uprising Reading Series – Antioch University – online event
Date: Tuesday the 9th
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/248121723917563
Virginia Heath, with Evie Dunmore, & Never Fall for Your Fiancee Launch Event via The Ripped Bodice Bookstore – Online FB Event
Join us at our Live Stream Virtual Event with author Virginia Heath, in conversation with Evie Dunmore, to celebrate the launch ofNever Fall for Your Fiancee, and to discuss all things romance.
In this historical romance novel set in the early 1800s, a handsome earl hires a fake fiancée to keep his matchmaking mother at bay, but hilarity ensues when love threatens to complicate everything.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: The Ripped Bodice – Online FB Event
Date: Tuesday the 9th
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.therippedbodicela.com/events-and-tickets
Braintrust Writing Workshop with Danielle Mitchell via The Poetry Lab – Online Event
Join us for the Braintrust generative writing workshop led by The Poetry Lab’s Danielle Mitchell.
This Braintrust workshop is titled COLOR EXPERIMENTS and it requires a donation and registration to receive the Zoom link.
NOTE: See Site for details.
Where: Braintrust Writing Workshop at The Poetry Lab – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 9th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.thepoetrylab.com/register/braintrust-november-9
Expressions LA Virtual Poetry Readings & Open Mic via Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join us for the monthly Expressions LA Virtual Poetry Readings & Open Mic via Zoom.
This series has featured poetry readings plus an Open Mic for additional readings.
Please email Emily at eaaronson@lapl.org for instructions on how to join the program.
NOTE: See Site for details and Zoom link.
Where: LAPL – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 9th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-night
Poetry Open Mic via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join us to share a poem you wrote or a poem you love, or just listen via Zoom.
This series is offered monthly and poet Wyatt Underwood serves as emcee..
Contact wwood@lapl.org for an invitation to join the program.
NOTE: See Site for details and Zoom link.
Where: LAPL – Online event
Date: Tuesday the 9th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-open-mic-3
Wil Haygood & COLORIZATION: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World via Vroman’s – Online Event
Please join author Wil Haygood, the author of The Butler and Showdown, to hear him discuss his new book, COLORIZATION: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World.
This unprecedented history of Black cinema examines 100 years of Black movies—from Gone with the Wind to f—using the struggles and triumphs of the artists, and the films themselves, as a prism to explore Black Culture, civil rights, and racism in America. This important and timely book offers us a n unprecedented history of Black cinema and a groundbreaking perspective on racism in modern America.
NOTE: See site for book purchase & event details.
Where: Vroman’s – Online Event
Date: Tuesday the 9th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/wil-haywood-discusses-colorization
Lucy Corwin, with Niela Orr, & The Swank Hotel via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Join us to welcome author Lucy Corwin, in conversation with Niela Orr, when they discuss her novel. The Swank Hotel: One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses.
At the outset of the 2008 financial crisis, Em has a dependable, dull marketing job generating reports of vague utility while she anxiously waits to hear news of her sister, Ad, who has gone missing—again. Em’s days pass drifting back and forth between her respectably cute starter house (bought with a “responsible, salary-backed, fixed-rate mortgage”) and her dreary office. Then something unthinkable, something impossible happens and she begins to see how madness permeates everything around her while the mundane spaces she inhabits are transformed, through author Lucy Corin’s idiosyncratic magic, into shimmering sites of the uncanny.
The Swank Hotel is an acrobatic, unforgettable, surreal, and unexpectedly comic novel that interrogates the illusory dream of stability that pervaded early twenty-first century America.
NOTE: See site for tickets, event details and to purchase book.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 9th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Skylight (Online event)
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-lucy-corin-conversation-niela-orr
Carly Heath & The Reckless Kind via Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online YA Event
Join us when author Carly Heath, in conversation with Rosiee Thor (Tarnished Are the Stars, Fire Becomes Her) will present and discussher genre-defying debut, The Reckless Kind.
In this queer historical YA novel set on an island in 1904 Norway, a wild ad reckless trio fly in the face of small-town tradition, determined to live the lives of their choosing and performing in the village theater.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online YA event
Date: Tuesday the 9th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/november-9-carly-heath
Mystery Book Club & The Stolen Hours via Pages Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join our Mystery Book Club to read and discuss new release mysteries every month. This month’s selection is The Stolen Hours, by author Alan Eskens.
Lila Nash is on the verge of landing her dream job—working as a prosecutor under the Hennepin County Attorney—and has settled into a happy life with her boyfriend, Joe Talbert. But when a woman is pulled from the Mississippi River, barely alive, things in the office take a personal turn.
The police believe the woman’s assailant is local photographer Gavin Spenser, but the case quickly flounders as the evidence wears thin. It seems Gavin saw this investigation coming—and no one can imagine how carefully he has prepared.
NOTE: See site for details and guidelines.
Where: Pages Bookstore – In-Person Courtyard Event
Date: Tuesday the 9th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/mystery-book-club
Adult Book Group & The Cold Millions by Jess Walter – Online Zoom Event
Join us for our Adult Book Group, when we read and discuss author Jess Walters’ novel The Cold Millions. This historical novel is the story of two brothers born into squalor and deprivation who become part of the 1909-1910 free speech battles led by the militant IWW and the struggles for workers’ rights in America.
Whether you loved it, hated it, or haven’t finished it, we want to see you at our Adult Book Club that has been going strong for 40+ years at America’s Oldest Children’s Bookstore!
NOTE: See site for details and event link.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 9th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: Once Upon a Time Bookstore– Online Zoom Event
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/adult-book-group-cold-millions-jess-walter
Tuesdays at the Virtual Cobalt: Poets Series Presents: Open Reading & Asia Renee – Virtual Zoom Event
The Virtual Cobalt Poets Series, presented by Rick Lupert via Zoom, will feature an Open Reading and guest poet Asia Renee.
Asia Renee is a poet who writes on diverse subjects, from social justice and personal growth to pencil drawing art and motivational speaking and performance poetry.
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 9th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html
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 9th
Time: 8 pm
Address: Online event (Check to verify)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/da_poetry_lounge/ (Check to verify)
Book Talk: Ehud Barak & What If at American Jewish University – Online Event
Join AJU’s Book Talk to hear former Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, in conversation with AJU President Jeffrey Herbst, when they discuss his book, What If?, and ponder his track record and his country’s history. They will discuss his success as a leader in influencing the world, mistakes made along the way, and his own history and resignation from the premiership due to the failure of the 2000 Camp David summit, as well as the documentary of his life.
NOTE: See site for event details and to purchase book.
Where: American Jewish University (AJU) – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 10th
Time: 12 pm – 12:45 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2894709127445065
Lee Wind & Paul Zelinsky, with Jane Yolen, & Red and Green and Blue and White via Pages Bookstore – Online Kids Event
Author Lee Wind and illustrator Paul Zelinsky, will present their book, Red and Green and Blue and White, in a virtual children’s event moderated by author Jane Yolen.
Lee Wind is the author of Red and Green and Blue and White, which has received three starred reviews. He is also the author of the middle grade nonfiction No Way, They Were Gay? Hidden Lives and Secret Loves, honored as a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection, and the crowd-funded YA novel, Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill, a Publishers Weekly Indie Success Story.
Paul Zelinsky is an author and Caldecott-award winning illustrator. He has created over 35 children’s books. Paul won the Caldecott award for his retelling of Rapunzel and three Caldecott honors for Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, and Swamp Angel. Paul is known for his wide range of styles and genre in children’s books.
Jane Yolen is an author of 400 books for children and adults (her 400th book, Bear Outside, was published earlier this year). Among her books are Owl Moon, The Devil’s Arithmetic, and How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight. Her books, stories, and poems have received numerous awards including the Caldecott medal, Christopher Medals, Golden Kite Awards, and many more!
NOTE: See site for details and book purchase.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Wednesday the 10th
Time: 4:30 pm
Address: Pages Bookstore – Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/red-green-blue-white
Julie Tieu, with Thien-Kim Lam & Suzanne Park, in a Foodie Romance Panel, via The Ripped Bodice Bookstore – Online Livestream Event
Join us at our Live Stream Virtual Event with authors Julie Tieu, Thien-Kim Lam, and Suzanne Park, to celebrate the release of Julie Tieu’s novel, The Donut Trap. They will discuss their “foodie” romance novels, favorite recipes, and midnight cravings.
This debut romantic comedy is charmingly reminiscent of the TV show Kim’s Convenience and Frankly in Love by David Yoon.
NOTE: See site for guidelines & event details.
Where: The Ripped Bodice – Online Livestream Event
Date: Wednesday the 10th
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 10th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar E. Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 900333
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
Bella Thorne, with Dani Thorne, & The Life of a Wannabe Mogul via Diesel Bookstore – Online Event
Join us to hear author Bella Thorne, in conversation with her sister Dani Thorne, to discuss her book, The Life of a Wannabe Mogul: Mental Disarray.
Bella Thorne’s collection of illuminating and inspiring poems, chronicles her personal struggles, relationships and wild-child lifestyle, all with her trademark wit and wisdom. Bella Thorne is an American actress, singer, and music video director, among other pursuits.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Diesel Bookstore, Brentwood – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 10th
Time: 6:30 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Yrsa Daley-Ward, with Mimi Zhu, & The How via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Skylight Books presents author Yrsa Daley-Ward, in conversation with author Mimi Zhu, to discuss her new book, The How: Notes on the Great Work of Meeting Yourself.
Yrsa Daley-Ward’s words have resonated with hundreds of thousands of readers–through her books of poetry and memoir, bone and The Terrible; through her writing for Beyoncé on Black Is King; and through her always illuminating Instagram posts.
Now, in The How, Yrsa encourages readers to begin, as she puts it, the great work of meeting ourselves. This isn’t the self we’ve built up in response to our surroundings, or the self we manufacture to please the people around us, but instead, our most intimate self, the one we visit in dreams, the one that calls to us from a glimmering future.
Mimi Zhu (they/them) is a queer Chinese-Australian immigrant based in Brooklyn, New York. They are a Gemini, writer, and artist who has been featured in the New York Times, PAPER Magazine, Guardian, them., The Fader, and more. Their first book, BE NOT AFRAID OF LOVE, is forthcoming from Penguin Life in summer 2022.self, the one we visit in dreams, the one that calls to us from a glimmering future.
NOTE: See site for event details and to purchase book.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 10th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online Event (se site)
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-yrsa-daley-ward-discusses-how-mimi-zhu
Berry Jenkins & Joi McMIllon & The Gaze at California African American Museum (CAAM) – Online Event
Join us to hear author Berry Jenkins & Joi McMillon in conversation about their experiences adapting Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad, which inspired them to produce The Gaze (2021, 52 minutes). This parallel project is a moving image collection of portraits of the show’s background actors, in costumes and with the score’s haunting music, and demonstrating their power to evoke ancestral memory
Elvis Mitchell, noted film critic and host of The Treatment, will moderate the discussion.
Come early, from 6pm – 7pm, for open galleries and outdoor complimentary food and truck fare courtesy of Prime! Video!
NOTE: See site for details, guidelines and RSVP/ first-come, first-served policy.
Where: CAAM – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 10th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: In-Person Event (see site)
Huma Abedin, with Bozoma Saint John, & Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds via Chevalier’s Bookstore – In-Store Event
Join us for an In-Store event to hear author and Hillary Clinton top aid Huma Abedin, in conversation with Bozoma Saint John, discuss her memoir Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds
As the daughter of Indian and Pakistani intellectuals and advocates, Abedin grew up in the U.S. and Saudi Arabia and traveled widely. Hired to work in the White House straight out of college, her relationship with Hillary Clinton was both personal and professional for many years, and she met her husband, former Congressman Anthony Weiner, and suffered his betrayals while working for Clinton. This is her heartbreaking chronicle of how those expanded to damage Clinton and affect us all.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – In-Store event
Date: Wednesday the 10th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 133 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/november-10-huma-abedin
At Skylight: Robin McLean, with Brian Evenson, & Pity the Beast via Skylight Bookstore – On-site Event
Skylight Books presents author Robin McLean, in conversation with author Brian Evenson, to discuss his new novel, Pity the Beast (And Other Stories).
Millennia ago, Ginny’s family farm was all grass and rock and wild horses. A thousand years hence, it’ll all be peacefully underwater. In the matter-of-fact here and now, though, it’s a hotbed of lust and resentment, because Ginny’s just cheated on her husband with the man who lives next door.
When a crowd of locals—including Ginny’s bitter sister Ella—turn up to help out on the farm, a day of chores turns into a night of serious drinking, and then of brutal, communal retribution. By morning, Ginny’s been left for dead. But dead is the one thing she isn’t. With a stolen horse and rifle, she escapes into the mountains, and a small posse gears up to give chase—to bring her home and beg forgiveness, or to make sure she disappears for good?
With detours through time, space, myth, and into the minds of a pack of philosophical mules, Pity the Beast heralds the arrival of a major new force in American letters. It is a novel that turns our assumptions about the West, masculinity, good and evil, and the nature of storytelling onto their heads, with an eye to the cosmic as well as the comic. It urges us to write our stories anew—if we want to avoid becoming beasts ourselves.
NOTE: See site for event details and to purchase book.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online event
Date: Wednesday the 10th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: Online Event (se site)
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-robin-mclean-conversation-brian-evenson
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 10th
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/2956323634627812/
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 10th
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 10th
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)
Author Signing: Rick McIntyre & The Redemption of Wolf 302 at Skylight Bookstore – In-Store Event
Author Rick McIntyre will present his Book Three in the Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone Series, The Redemption of Wolf 302: From Renegade to Yellowstone Alpha Male.
This book is the astonishing true story of a wayward wolf who transformed into a powerful alpha male. That was wolf 302. A renegade with an eye for the ladies, 302 was anything but Yellowstone’s perfect alpha male. For starters, he fled from danger. He begged for food from other wolves, ditched females he’d gotten pregnant, and even napped during a heated battle! But this is not the story of 302’s failures. This is the story of his redemption. And legendary wolf writer and researcher Rick McIntyre witnessed it all from the sidelines. Recounted in McIntyre’s captivating storytelling voice and peppered with fascinating insights into wolf behavior, The Redemption of Wolf 302 is a powerful coming-of-age tale that will strike a chord with anyone who has struggled to make a change, big or small.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 11th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/store-signing-rick-mcintyre-author-redemption-wolf-302
Michael Connelly & The Dark Hours via Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Event
Join us via a virtual event to hear #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Harry Bosch series, Michael Connelly, present and discusshis latest thriller featuring LAPD Detective Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch, The Dark Hours
In this book, a brazen and methodical killer strikes on New Year’s Eve, and Detective Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch must join forces to find justice for the victim in a city scarred by fear and social unrest. A deadly bullet is linked to another unsolved case worked by Bosch, and both predators they are tracking are willing to kill to keep their secrets.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online event
Date: Thursday the 11th
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/november-11-michael-connelly
World Stage Press: A Poetry Reading via Beyond Baroque – Online Zoom Event
Join Beyond Baroque for a virtual Zoom event, A Poetry Reading with World Stage Press, featuring poets celebrating new releases:
Conney D. Williams is a poet, actor, community activist, and performance artist with three collections of poetry, most recently the collection, The Distance of Observation. In 2015 he released two critically acclaimed CDs of his work accompanied by music: River & Moan and Unsettled Water. He is former Artistic Director and the World Stage and Coordinator for the Anansi Writers Workshop. He’s also co-founder of World Stage Press.
Revina Wadhwani is the author of the debut collection, YELLOW (2021). She is a first-generation daughter of immigrants and uses writing a as tool for understanding identity, processing trauma, moving through experiences of struggle, empowerment, growth, joy and healing. She has performed her poetry nationally as well as overseas.
October B.L.U. (Breathing Life into the Universe) is the author of Sounds from the Waters, and describes her writing style as emotionally driven. She has been heard at many Open Mics and venues in Los Angeles and recently placed 2nd in the Size It Up Slam competition.
AKoldPiece is a father, educator, writer poet, spoken word artist and host. He started writing as a way to improve his stutter, at the urging of his father, and started writing poetry upon his father’s death. Since then he has written a wealth of poems, stories, and Haiku, and recently published a book of haiku he calls myku, titled The Weather Report.
Shakirah Peterson is an MFA Candidate in Creative Writing at Louisiana State University where she served as the editorial assistant of The Southern Review. Her work has been supported by Clarion West, the Hurston/Wright Foundation and VONA. Her first book of poetry and polaroids, The Letting of a Little Water was published in January 2019 by World Stage Press.
NOTE: See site for further details, tickets and information.
Where: Beyond Baroque – Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Thursday the 11th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online Zoom event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
Gary Shteyngart, with Krys Lee, & Our Country Friends via Book Soup – Online Event
Author Gary Shteyngart, in conversation with Krys Lee, will present and discuss his new book, Our Country Friends.
The author of the beloved bestseller, Super Sad Love Story, bring us an elegiac and very funny story about a group of friends and friend-of-friends who gather in a country house to wat out the pandemic in March 2020. Over the next six months new friendships and old betrayals will emerge, forcing each character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most. This is his most ambitious book yet.
NOTE: See site for book purchase & event details.
Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Thursday the 11th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/gary-shteyngart-our-country-friends
Emily Ratajkowski, with Elaine Welteroth, & My Body via LiveTalks LA at Aratani Theatre – Online Event
LiveTalks LA presents model, activist, entrepreneur and writer Emily Ratajkowski, in conversation with journalist and author Elaine Welterroth, to present and discuss her book My Body.
Emily Ratajkowski is a model, actress, activist, entrepreneur, and writer, who has also appeared on the covers of multiple magazines and walked the runway for numerous high fashion brands. Her 2020 essay for New York magazine, “Buying Myself Back,” led to widespread public discourse on image ownership and garnered over one million views within twenty-four hours, and was the magazine’s most-read piece of the year. My Body is her first book.
Elaine Welteroth is an award-winning journalist, New York Times bestselling author, producer, and judge on Bravo’s Project Runway. She is known for her work at the helm of Teen Vogue, where in 2016 she was appointed the youngest ever Editor-in-Chief at a Conde Nast publication and used her position to prioritize diversity and social justice coverage.
NOTE: See site for book purchase, tickets, guidelines, & event details.
Where: Live Talks LA at The Aratani Theatre – On-site Event
Date: Thursday the11th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/emily-ratajkowski/
Charles Finch & What Just Happened via Chevalier’s Bookstore – On-site Event
Join us to hear book critic and author of fifteen novels, Charles Finch, present and discusshis book about his experiences and analysis of the pandemic shutdown that began on March 2020, What Just Happened.
At the request of the Los Angeles Times, Finch became a reluctant diarist, and his efforts turned into this book, which draws on his acuity as a cultural critic and includes a running commentary on current events. This book is a work of empathy and insight, and comes from one of the culture’s most original thinkers.
NOTE: See site for details and guidelines.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – In-store event
Date: Thursday the 11th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 133 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/november-11-charles-finch
Oliver Uberti Book Launch & Outdoor Multimedia Presentation & Atlas of the Invisible via Flintridge Bookstore – On-site Event
Flintridge Books presents author Oliver Uberti, to present and discuss his book, Atlas of the Invisible.
Award-winning geographer-designer team James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti transform enormous datasets into rich maps and cutting edge visualizations. In this form of visual storytelling they uncover truths about our past, reveal who we are today, and highlight what we face in the years ahead. They explore happiness levels around the globe, trace the cables and cell towers that connect us, examine the scars of geopolitics, and illustrate h ow a warmer planet influences everything.
NOTE: See site for book purchase, guidelines, & event details.
Where: Flintridge Bookstore – On-site Event
Date: Thursday the11th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 858 Foothill Blvd., La Canada-Flintridge, CA 91011
Will Smith: An Evening of Stories with Friends & Will at Hollywood Dolby Theatre
Please join actor and producer Will Smith, as he begins a five-city tour to discuss his memoir, Will (on sale November 9, 2021).
Smith opens up fully about his life, tracing his learning curve to a place where outer success, inner happiness, and human connection are aligned. Joined by special guests, he will share his profound journey.
Fitbit is the title tour sponsor, and each ticket will include a copy of his memoir, Will, written with the help of Mark Manson, author of the multi-million bestseller, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck.
NOTE: See Site for guidelines, tickets, and details.
Where: Dolby Theatre, Hollywood (see site)
Date: Thursday the 11th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Dolby Theatre (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/153610436977773/ or https://www.ticketmaster.com/will-smith-an-evening-of-stories-hollywood-california-11-11-2021/event/09005B32C2C8381E
At Skylight: Adele Bertei, Mike Decapite & Lucy Sante at Skylight Bookstore – In-Store Event
Join us at Skylight for a special evening with three authors who will present and discuss their new books:
Adele Bertei played the lead role in Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames. Her books include the memoir Peter and the Wolves (2020), and Why Labelle Matters (2021). Her next book, Twist: a Memoir will be released by ZE Books in the spring of 2022.
Why Labelle Matters (University of Texas Press) is about the evolution of Patti Labelle and others. Performing as the Bluebelles in the 1960s, Patti LaBelle, Nona Hendryx, and Sarah Dash wore bouffant wigs and chiffon dresses, and they harmonized vocals like many other girl groups of the era. After a decade on the Chitlin Circuit, however, they were ready to write their own material, change their name, and deliver—as Labelle—an electrifyingly celestial sound and styling that reached a crescendo with a legendary performance at the Metropolitan Opera House to celebrate the release of Nightbirds and its most well-known track, “Lady Marmalade.” In Why Labelle Matters, Adele Bertei tells the story of the group that sang the opening aria of Afrofuturism and proclaimed a new theology of musical liberation for women, people of color, and LGBTQ people across the globe.
Mike Decapite is the author of the recently released novel, Jacket Weather (Skull Press). His other works include: the novel Through the Windshield, the chapbooks Sitting Pretty and Creamsicle Blue, and the short prose collection Radiant Fog.
Jacket Weather (Soft Skull Press) tells us about when Nick Hornby meets Patti Smith, Mean Streets meets A Visit From the Goon Squad — in this quintessential New York City story about two people who knew each other in the downtown music scene in the 1980s, meet again in the present day, and fall in love. It’s about awakening to love—when its least expected, and while time is slipping away, and it collapses a decade in the lives of those experiencing it.
Lucy Sante’s books include: Low Life, The Factory of Facts, Kill All Your Darlings, The Other Parts, and most recently Maybe the People Would Be the Times. Nineteen Reservoirs will be published in 2022.
Maybe the People Would Be the Times (Verse Chorus Press) is her second collection (after Kill All Your Darlings, 2007), and here the author pays homage to Patti Smith, Rene Ricard, and Georges Simenon; traces the history of tabloids; surveys the landscape that gave birth to the Beastie Boys; explores the back alleys of vernacular photography; sounds a threnody for the forgotten dead of New York City. The glue that holds it together is autobiography, as Sante roots it in inventive form, personal experiences and lived experiences.
NOTE: See site for guidelines, event details, and to purchase book.
Where: Skylight Books – On-site Event
Date: Thursday the 11th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N, Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-adele-bertei-mike-decapite-and-lucy-sante
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 11th
Time: 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/fos_thursdays/ (Confirm at site)
Book Talk: Jason Reynolds & Stuntboy, In the Meantime at Children’s Book World – School Virtual Event
National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature and author Jason Reynolds will have a book talk about his newest book, Stuntboy, In the Meantime, illustrated by Raul the Third.
This book is a hilarious, hopeful, and action=packed middle grade novel about the greatest young superhero you’ve never heard of. Portico Reeves has the superpower of making sure all the other superheroes like his parents and two best friends, stay super. And safe. Super safe. And he does it all in secret. No one in his civilian life knows he’s actually…Stuntboy! But all of his secrets give him the worry wiggles, the frets– what his mom calls anxiety. And his arch-nemesis is out to prove there is nothing super about Portico at all!
Where: Children’s Book World – School Virtual Event (see site)
Date: Friday the 12th
Time: 10 am
Address: See Site
Joan Nockels Wilson, with Timothy Nockels, & Andromeda Romano-Lax, & The Book of Timothyvia Book Soup – Online Event
Please join author Joan Nockels Wilson, in conversation with Timothy Nockels, & Andromeda Romano-Lax, to hear them discuss her new book, The Book of /Timothy: The Devil, My Brother, and Me.
Set in Rome, Chicago and Anchorage, and spanning thirty years from crime ot confrontation, This book recounts in lyric movements a sister’s journey, through both trickery and truth, to gain a long-absent admission from the priest who abused her brother. While on this journey, Nockels-Wilson, a former prosecutor, also confronts her personal quest for vengeance. It takes the reader on a quest for justice and down a path of unexpected coincidences that ends where it began: out of great love for a brother and in the power of first memory.
NOTE: See site for book purchase & event details.
Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Friday the 12th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Zibby Owens, with Guest Authors, & Moms Don’t Have Time to Have Kids: A Timeless Anthology via Pages Bookstore – Online Event
Author and podcaster Zibby Owens will host and present readings from the contributors to the anthology, Moms Don’t Have Time to Have Kids. This book consists of 53 short essays for busy people…by 49 amazing authors.
Guest authors/contributors include:
Elizabeth Passarella, the author of Good Apple and is a contributing editor for Southern Living, where she writes the “Social Graces” column.
Tamara Winfrey-Harris, is a writer who specializes in the ever-evolving space where current events, politics and pop culture intersect with race and gender. She is the author of Dear Black Girl.
Arden Myrin, the author of Little Miss, Little Compton. She’s also an actress and comedian and became a new cast member on Showtime’s Shameless Season 7, and recently appeared in the world premiere of Steve Martin’s new play Meteor Shower.
Laura Tremaine, is the author of Share Your Stuff. I’ll Go First. She grew up in a small town in southern Oklahoma and moved to Los Angeles site unseen when she was 22. Years of film and television production followed, and in 2007 she married the director she met on her first movie set
Brooke Adams Law, is the author of Catchlight. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and two nutty kids.
The readings will be moderated by Lydia Fenet, author of The Most Powerful Woman in the Room is You
NOTE: See site for details and book purchase.
Where: Pages Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Friday the 12th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Pages Bookstore – Online Event (see site)
Re-Opening Celebration with Red Hen Press – On-site Event
Red Hen Press will celebrate a grand re-opening to the public with an extravagant cultural event!
Our featured guests will include readings by: Obama Presidential inaugural poet Richard Blanco and current Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson.
RHP will also be celebrating the West Coast launch for Jan Beatty and her memoirAmerican Bastard. This book is a wild innovative story which renders pain with exquisite craft and beauty, and redefines memoir as a meeting of essay and magical realism though a story of adoption.
We will enjoy incredible music from jazz saxophonist Dr. Ray Briggs of the Pasadena Conservatory of Music.
NOTE: See site for guidelines, RSVP and event details.
Where: Red Hen Press
Date: Friday the 12th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 1540 Lincoln Ave., Pasadena, CA 91103
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1574095652926616/
What Books Press Reading: Maureen Alsop, Rebecca Kuder & M.L. Williams via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Join us for a What Books Press Launch Party for three new releases:
Maureen Alsop is the author most recently of Pyre, a collection of poems that are “feral elegies,” spacious, experimental and abstract, which spark and inflame language. They delve into collaborations invented in life and beyond. Alsop is also the author of Mantic, Apparition Wren, Mirror Inside Coffin, and Later, Knives & Trees.
Rebecca Kuder is the author of The Eight Mile Suspended Carnival, a literary fabulist tale sexual awakening and noir revenge, where the machines that make dreams are assembled. When a tornado drop a young woman near the Eight Mile Suspended Carnival, with no memories and no name, the carnival adopts her and she adapts to the beast’s life and sets vengeance in motion. This is the author’s first novel, and her other work has appeared in LARB, Bayou Magazine, Lunch Ticket, Year’ Best Weird Fiction, The Rumpus, among others.
M.L. Williams is the author of the chapbook Other Medicines and co-editor of How Much Earth: The Fresno Poets, and served as editor or co-editor of Quarterly West for five years. His work is in many journals and anthologies, and he has been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes. He co-emcees the Poetry Stage at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, and teaches creative writing and contemporary literature at Valdosta State University.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, details, and book purchases.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online event
Date: Friday the 12th
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-what-books-press-readi
Katie Couric Live at the Orpheum Theater & Going There via Pages Bookstore – Online Event
Author and TV/media journalist Katie Couric will present and discuss her new book, Going There, a brutally honest, hilarious and heartbreaking memoir of what went on in her personal and professional life during her forty year career.
NOTE: See site for details and book purchase.
Where: Pages Bookstore – at The Orpheum Theater
Date: Friday the 12th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: Special Event (see site)
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/katie-couric-orpheum-theater-friday-november-12th-730-pm or
https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/09005ACFCC332FB5
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 13th
Time: 10 am – 12:30 pm
Address: Online event (see website)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1256929631349143/
Women Who Submit Writing Workshop: Generating Characters through Language and Line – Online Event via Zoom & YouTube
Women Who Submit facilitates free quarterly workshops on writing, publishing, career building, and community, which are one-hour long workshops led by professional women and nonbinary writers. Workshop and New Member Orientation will be remote via Zoom. The workshops will also be livestreamed on YouTube.
Participate in orientation at one of our workshops to become a member. There fee to join, but if you are new to WWS, you must be registered to attend the event. Registration opens one month prior to the event date.
NOTE: Please see site for details, schedule, materials required, and links.
Where: Women Who Submit – Online (see site)
Date: Saturday the 13th
Time: 10 am – 1 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://womenwhosubmitlit.org/workshops/
Special Storytime with Yuyi Morales & Bright Star via Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Kids Event
Join us to hear author-artist Yuyi Morales present and read her new children’s bookBright Star,the latest from the author of Dreamers.This book is the story of a fawn making her way through a border landscape teaming with flora and fauna. A gentle but empowering voice encourages her to face her fears when she comes across an obstacle in the form of an insurmountable barrier.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, details, and book purchase.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore – Online Kids Event
Date: Saturday the 13th
Time: 11 am
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/special-storytime-yuyi-morales-presents-bright-star
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 13th
Time: 1 pm – 2:30 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
The Artist’s Way Writing Workshop with Laurie King via Sims Library of Poetry – Online Event
Join us for a workshop that will serve as an introduction to those who want to begin a project but have been hindered by life’s many blocks. Julia Cameron wrote the book The Artist’s Way, which has helped many in their creative journeys, so discover the tools you need here.
Laurie King Billman is a published poet and short story writer who is a second semester student in the Sims Publishing class and has 30 years of experience in this field.
NOTE: See website for registration and further details.
Where: Sims Library of Poetry – Online Event
Date: Saturday the 13th
Time: 2 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: Sims Library – Online Zoom Event
Website: https://www.simslibraryofpoetry.org/event-details/introduction-to-the-artists-way-workshop
Book Fair & Open Mic at Sims Library of Poetry – On-site Event
Join us for an afternoon with publisher, food, live music, and an Open Mic for our Patron Campaign Relaunch.
NOTE: See website for RSVP and further details.
Where: Sims Library of Poetry – On-site Event
Date: Saturday the 13th
Time: 2 pm – 6 pm
Address: 2702 W. Florence Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90043
Website: https://www.simslibraryofpoetry.org/event-details/book-fair
Mindie Barnett & You Don’t Need to be a Bitch to Be a Boss via The Book Jewel – On-site Event
Author Mindie Barnett will present her book, You Don’t Need to be a Bitch to Be a Boss, where she flips the script on the tough business type, and discusses her work philosophy that to embrace one’s compassion and femininity into one’s work life will earn you trust and loyalty amongst your team.
Where: The Book Jewel – On-site Event
Date: Saturday the 13th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 6259 W. 87th St., Westchester, CA 90045
Website: https://www.facebook.com/BookJewelBookstore/
Congressman Adam Schiff & Midnight in Washington at Diesel Bookstore – Online Event
Congressman, and Chairman of the House permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Adam Schiff, will present and discuss his new book, Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost our Democracy and Still Could.
Adam Schiff has been sounding the alarm over the resurgence of autocracy around the world, and the threat posed to the united States, and following the probe into Trump’ s Russian and Ukraine-related abuses of power, he concluded that the principal threat to American democracy now comes from within. This book concludes the Trump presidency has so weakened our institutions and compromised the Republican Party that the peril will last for years, requiring unprecedented vigilance against the growing and dangerous appeal of authoritarianism. Although this story began with Trump, it does not end with him, as the antidemocratic forces he unleashed and nurtured continue to define his party.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase, seating and guidelines.
Where: Diesel Bookstore – On-site Courtyard Event
Date: Saturday the 13th
Time: 3 pm – 4 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Suite 33, Santa Monica, CA 90402
Saturday Afternoon Poetry & Deep Critique Writing Workshop – Online Event
Join Saturday Afternoon Poetry for a Deep Critique Writing Workshop led by G.T. Foster. 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 13th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
In-Store Signing: Ezra Claytan Daniels & UPGRADE SOUL at Skylight Bookstore – On-site Event
Join us at Skylight for an in-store signing by author Ezra Claytan Daniels of his book, UPGRADE SOUL.
This new edition of Upgrade Soul Collector’s edition is a page-turning graphic novel following Hank and Molly as they plan to celebrate their anniversary but discover a hard truth that only one of them is fated to survive. It includes a forward by Daren Aronofsky and afterword by Karama Home.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – On-site Event
Date: Saturday the 13th
Time: 3 pm – 4:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Grand Opening & 20th Anniversary Celebration at Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join us at Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore for our Grand Opening at their new address, and a 20th Anniversary Celebration.
There will be music, vendors, book sales, and more!
NOTE: See website for further guidelines & further details.
Where: Tia Chucha’s – In-Person Event
Date: Saturday the 13th
Time: 4 pm – 8 pm
Address: 12677 Glenoaks Blvd., Sylmar, CA 91342
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/579832416588820/
Voices of California: Poetry Reading at RE/ARTE Centro Literario – In-Person Event
Join us at RE/ARTE for a special event: Voices of California: Poetry Reading.
Details TBA.
NOTE: See website for further details. Check to confirm.
Where: RE/ARTE – In-Person Event
Date: Saturday the 13th
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm
Address: 2014 ½ E. Cesar Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
At Skylight: Anisia Uzeyman, with Saul Williams & Safia Elhillo, & Saolomea, Saolomea at Skylight Bookstore – In-Store Event
Join us at Skylight when author and Rwandan actress and playwright Anisia Uzeyman, will be joined by Saul Williams & Safia Elhillo, in a table reading event.
Saolomea, Saolomea is a social thriller following a mother and her young son as they navigate tumultuous water to survive the ordained Gods of a city of angels. Our journey is with the protagonist and narrator Nora Saolomea as she encounters these gods and faces pressures, single motherhood, health and survival in Los Angeles.
NOTE: See website for further details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore – In-Store Event
Date: Saturday the 13th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-anisia-uzeyman-saul-williams-and-safia-elhillo
Cellar Door Book Club & Ruth Ozkei’s A Tale for the Time Being at Cellar Books Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join us at Cellar Door Bookstorefor our Cellar Door Book Club, offered every second Sunday of the month at 2pm.
We will read and discuss author Ruth Ozeki’s prize-winning novel A Tale For the Time Being. The sweep of this timeless, moving and thought-provoking novel celebrates our shared humanity, and is both a coming-of-age tale and a meditation on time and memory, told through a courageous young woman’s attempt to tell her great grandmother’s story to the larger world.
NOTE: See website for further details.
Where: Cellar Door Bookstore, Riverside – In-Person Event
Date: Saturday the 13th
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: 5225 Canyon Crest Dr., Suite # 30A, Riverside, CA 92507
Website: https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/event/cellar-door-book-club-tale-time-being
Nicholas Meyer, with Les Klinger, & The Return of the Pharaoh at Diesel Bookstore, Brentwood – On-site Event
Author Nicholas Meyer Les Klinger, will present and discuss his new book, The Return of the Pharaoh: From the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D.
In 1910 Dr. John Watson travels to Egypt with his wife Juliet, after doctors recommend a stay in a sanitarium in a dry climate for her tuberculosis. While his wife undergoes treatment he bumps into an old friend— Sherlock Holmes, in disguise and on a case.
An English Duke with a penchant for Egyptology has disappeared, leading to enquiries from his wife and the Home Office. Sherlock Holmes has discovered that the missing duke has indeed vanished from his lavish rooms in Cairo and that he was on the trail of a previously undiscovered and unopened tomb. And that he’s only the latest Egyptologist to die or disappear under odd circumstances. With the help of Howard Carter, Holmes and Watson are on the trail of something much bigger, more important, and more sinister than an errant lord.
NOTE: See site for registration, book purchase, guidelines and event details.
Where: Diesel Bookstore – Outdoor Courtyard
Date: Sunday the 14th
Time: 3 pm – 4 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Live on Crowdcast: Truong Tran, Jane Wong & Douglas Kearney in Conversation at Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Join Skylight Books online for a conversation between authors Truong Tran, Jane Wong & Douglas Kearney, as they present their new books: Book of the Other, and How to Not Be Afraid of Everything, and Sho.
Truong Tran’s Book of the Other is a timely commentary on the inequities built into the white establishment within academia and beyond. In this provocative collection of poetry, prose, and essays, Tran offers a stunning rebuttal to the idea of anti-Asian racism as a victimless crime—the hiring of a less qualified white man over a teacher of color who has served his public university for years, the performance of racial trauma for a white audience, the bind of racial representation and diversity politics, the daily racist transgressions that occur in events as simple as standing in line at the grocery store. These sharp-eyed experiments in language and form resist the luxury of metaphor to name not only the state of academic violence but the daily injustices one encounters as a queer working-class teacher, immigrant, and refugee. It’s written with a compulsion for lucidity that transforms outrage into clarity, an achingly poignant acknowledgment of the estrangement from self that is forced upon those seduced by the promise of color-blind acceptance, and the step-by-step recollection needed to return to oneself. Jane Wong’s How to Not Be Afraid of Everything
explores the vulnerable ways we articulate and reckon with fear: fear of intergenerational trauma and the silent, hidden histories of families. What does it mean to grow up in a take-out restaurant, surrounded by food, just a generation after the Great Leap Forward famine in 1958-62? Full of elegy and resilient joy, these poems speak across generations of survival.
Douglas Kearney’s Sho aims to hit crooked licks with straight-seeming sticks. Navigating the complex penetrability of language, these poems are sonic in their espousal of Black vernacular strategies, while examining histories and current events through the lyric, brand new dances, and other performances. Both dazzling and devastating, Sho is a genius work of literary precision, wordplay, farce, and critical irony. In his “stove-like imagination,” Kearney has concocted poems that destabilize the spectacle, leaving looky-loos with an important uncertainty about the intersection between violence and entertainment.
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Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Event
Date: Sunday the 14th
Time: 3 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-truong-tran-jane-wong-douglas-kearney
Library Girl Presents: The Michael Caine Project Part III, Curated by Suzanne Lummis at Ruskin Group Theater – In-Person Event
This event presents an eclectic collection ofpoets, writers and singer-songwriters on the life, times and movies of Sir MIchael Caine, and it features:
Tanya Ko Hong is an award-winning bilingual Korean American poet and translator, and has an MFA in poetry from Antioch University. She is the author of four poetry collections, most recently The War Still Within: Poems of the Korean Diaspora (KYSO Flash Press, 2019), written primarily in English. Before that, she published Mother to Myself (Prunsasang Press, 2015) in Korean, Yellow Flowers on a Rainy Day (Oma Books of the Pacific, 2003) in English, and Generation One Point Five (Esprit Books, 1993)in Korean with English translations. Her work has been widely published.
Darrell Larson is an actor, director and musician, with decades of credits in TV and film, from The China Syndrome to The Manchurian Candidate to 13: Game Doctor.
Suzanne Lummis earned her MA from CSU-Fresno, where she studied with Philip Levine. Her collections include Idiosyncrasies (1984), In Danger (1999), and Open 24 Hours (2014), which received the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize from Lynx House Press. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, the New Ohio Review, the Hudson Review, the Antioch Review, Plume, and the New Yorker. She is the co-editor with Henry Morro of The Pacific Coast Poetry Series from Beyond Baroque Books, and the editor of its first publication, Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond.
Chris Mulkey is an actor, performer, and musician, and his southern blues band is called Chris Mulkey and the Seekers.
The Prickly Pair (Mason Summit + Irene Greene) is a musical duo.
Jeremy Ra runs the Lantern Review Blog, which concerns Asian American Poetry Unbound.
Zander Schloss is a musician, actor and composer, and is known as bass player for the Circle Jerks, the Weirdos, and his many collaborations with Joe Strummer.
Charles Harper Webb is the author of A Million MFAs Are Not Enough, Brain Camp, and What Things are Made Of. He teaches at CSU Long Beach.
Conney Williams is a poet, actor, community activist, and performance artist with three collections of poetry, most recently the collection, The Distance of Observation. In 2015 he released two critically acclaimed CDs of his work accompanied by music: River & Moan and Unsettled Water. He is former Artistic Director and the World Stage and Coordinator for the Anansi Writers Workshop. He’s also co-founder of World Stage Press.
Chuck Zigman is a writer, editor, teacher at the college and elementary levels, and has worked in educational management and student development.
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Where: Library Girl at Ruskin Theater Group – In-Person Event
Date: Sunday the 14th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 3000 Airport Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90405
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