NOTE: There Are Both Online and Virtual Events Listed Here
Quantum Book Club: Her Body and Other Parties at The Book Jewel Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join the Quantum Book Club to discuss the book, Her Body and Other Parties, by Carmen Maria Machado.
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women’s lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase, guidelines, and details.
Where: The Book Jewel Bookstore
Date: Monday the 25th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 6259 W. 87th St., Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: https://www.thebookjewel.com/quantum-book-club
Local Author Day (Kids Edition): CHRIS WIELAND, MARIA MCCLOUD & JON-BARRETT INGELS at Vroman’s – In-Person Event
Vroman’s Local Author Day (Kids Edition) features children’s authors presenting their recent books:
Chris Wieland presents The Crabtree Monsters, about moving from Los Angeles to tiny Crabtree, Michigan. It’s the last thing thirteen-year-old Kat Dylan wants to do. Crabtree’s seen better days and isn’t what you call welcoming. Worse, the move means living with her gruff Grandpa Nick, the town’s police chief, and having to look after her little brother, Alec.
And that’s before Kat and Alec find themselves in the middle of a bank holdup by the Monster Gang—four robbers in monster masks. Before the heist is over, the kids lose their cash and Alec comes within a hair of losing his life. When it is all over, Grandpa Nick goes to jail, accused of being one of the robbers himself.
Suddenly, this boring little town isn’t so boring anymore. Kat’s determined to find out who the men are behind the masks, and she’s going to need help.
Maria McCloud presents Kash’s Hats
Kash and his adventurous hats give him the power to dream. One day he’s an artist, the next a chef or cowboy. See how many ways Kash’s Hats can power your imagination.
Jon-Barrett Ingels presents Running of the Noses.
There are a lot of books for kids about snot, but not so many that combine humor, instruction, and great story telling the way Running of the Noses does.
Nicco feels terrible about his runny nose, but Piper is sure she can cheer him up! She tells him about how trees talk to mushrooms to stop getting sick, tells him wild tales about other out-of-control runny noses, and even shares a story about herself as a snot-sneezing dragon. But Nicco is still worried – will he have to go to the doctor? Will he have to get a SHOT?! Piper’s not sure, but she lends him Bird—with Bird to keep him company, Nicco can be brave. As it turns out, neither doctors nor runny noses are as bad as they seem.
NOTE: See site for guidelines and details.
Where: Vroman’s
Date: Monday the 25th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena CA
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/local-author-day-july-2022
At Second Home Hollywood: Kamau Bell, with Kate Schatz, & DO THE WORK Offsite with Skylight Bookstore – In-Person Off-site Event
Kamau Bell and Kate Schatz present Do The Work: An Antiracist Activity Book.
Overwhelmed by racial injustice? Outraged by the news? Find yourself asking, “What can I do?” DO THE WORK!
Revelatory and thought-provoking, this highly illustrated, highly informative interactive workbook gives readers a unique, hands-on understanding of systemic racism—and how we can dismantle it.
Packed with activities, games, illustrations, comics, and eye-opening conversation, Do the Work! Challenges readers to think critically and act effectively. Try the “Separate but Not Equal” crossword puzzle. Play “Bootstrapping, the Game” to understand the myth of meritocracy. Test your knowledge of racist laws by playing “Jim Crow or Jim Faux?”
Have hard conversations with your people (scripts and talking points included). Be open to new ideas and diversify your “feed” with a scavenger hunt. Team up with an accountability partner and find hundreds of ideas, resources, and opportunities to DO THE WORK!
Ready to get started?
W. Kamau Bell is a dad, husband, and comedian. He directed and executive-produced the four-part Showtime documentary We Need To Talk About Cosby, which premiered at Sundance. He famously met with the KKK on his Emmy-Award-winning CNN docu-series United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell, where he serves as host and executive producer. He has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Conan, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, CBS Mornings, MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Comedy Central, HBO, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, WTF with Marc Maron, The Breakfast Club, and This American Life. He has two stand-up comedy specials, Private School Negro (Netflix) and Semi-Prominent Negro (Showtime).
Kamau’s writing has been featured in Time, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Hollywood Reporter, CNN.com, Salon, and The LA Review of Books. Kamau’s first book has an easy-to-remember title, The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6′ 4″, African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama’s Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian. He is the ACLU Artist Ambassador for Racial Justice and serves on the board of directors of Donors Choose and the advisory board of Hollaback!
Kate Schatz is the New York Times bestselling author of Rad American Women A-Z, Rad Women Worldwide, Rad Girls Can, Rad American History A-Z, and the illustrated journal My Rad Life. She’s a writer, public speaker, educator, and left-handed vegetarian Bay Area-born-and-bred queer feminist activist mama. Kate is also a political organizer and frequent public speaker. She’s the co-founder of Solidarity Sundays, a nationwide network of over 200 feminist activist groups. She founded the organization in January 2016 with a friend and began by holding a series of monthly “activist house parties” aimed at showing women how to take meaningful, coordinated political action. After the 2016 election, the group grew from one chapter with 50 members to over 200 chapters with 20,000+ members.
As an educator, Kate has worked with a wide range of age groups for over 15 years. She taught Women’s Studies, Literature, and Creative Writing at UC Santa Cruz, San Jose State, Rhode Island College, and Brown University. And she is the former Chair of the School of Literary Arts at Oakland School for the Arts, where she taught fiction, poetry, and journalism to 9th-12th graders for many years.
NOTE: See site for book purchases, guidelines, tickets, and details.
Where: Second Home Hollywood, with Skylight Books
Date: Monday the 25th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 1370 N. St. Andrews Place, Los Angeles, CA 90028
At Skylight: Tillie Waldon, with Shannon Watters, & Clementine: Book One at Skylight Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join us to hear author Tillie Waldon, in conversation with Shannon Watters, discuss their new graphic novel, Clementine: Book One.
Clementine is back on the road, looking to put her traumatic past behind her and forge a new path all her own.
But when she comes across an Amish teenager named Amos with his head in the clouds, the unlikely pair journeys North to an abandoned ski resort in Vermont, where they meet up with a small group of teenagers attempting to build a new, walker-free settlement.
As friendship, rivalry, and romance begin to blossom amongst the group, the harsh winter soon reveals that the biggest threat to their survival…might be each other.
Tillie Walden is a cartoonist and illustrator from Austin, TX. She is the creator of six graphic novels, including the Eisner award winning books Spinning and Are You Listening? She has been awarded an LA Times Book Prize as well as multiple Ignatz awards for her work. She graduated from the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont where she now teaches during the school year and summers.
Shannon Watters is the co-creator and co-writer of the award-winning hit comic book series LUMBERJANES. She is also a former senior editor and founder/head of BOOM! Box line at BOOM! Studios, the imprint behind critically acclaimed comics and graphic novels like GIANT DAYS, THE BACKSTAGERS, LUMBERJANES, FENCE, GOLDIE VANCE, HEAVY VINYL, THE AVANT-GUARDS, and many, many others. Her upcoming graphic novel HOLLOW is out in September 2022. She lives with her partner in Los Angeles.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Monday the 25th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Monday Night Fiction Workshop at Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online Event
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 to use 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 has published poetry and nonfiction and done readings with the Ventura Poetry Project.
Where: Beyond Baroque – Online event (tickets at Eventbrite) (check to verify)
Date: Monday the 25th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/monday-night-fiction-workshop-tickets-387568536927
Bilingual Storytime: Heidi Moreno & Luna Obscura at Once Upon a Time Bookstore – In-Person Kids Event
Join us to hear author Heidi Moreno present and discuss her new children’s book, Luna Obscura.
Black cats have a special magic, but only a few appreciate their beauty. Join author/illustrator Heidi Moreno for a Spanish and English story time followed by some coloring. Order a signed book below or grab a copy at the event.
Under the canopy of trees in the deep, dark forest, there exists a community of cats. And, within that community, there sits Luna, a black cat ostracized by the others due to superstitious beliefs. Aided by her trusty companion, Toad, Luna goes on a mission to not only find her forever home, but also her power, realizing along the way that black cats are magic—and no one can tell her otherwise. Written and illustrated by the ever-so-lovely Heidi Moreno, a cat enthusiast herself, this hardcover book focuses on the importance of acceptance and how crucial it is to always welcome others and offer a sense of belonging.
Heidi Moreno is a first-generation Mexican American born in East Los Angeles. She is an illustrator creating spooky art with an emphasis on cozy environments and nostalgia.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 26th
Time: 11 am
Address: 2207 Honolulu, Ave., Montrose, CA 91020
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/luna-oscura
Phy-Sci Book Club: When Einstein Walked with Godel at Cellar Door Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join the Phy-Sci Book Club to discuss the book, When Einstein Walked with Godel, by Jim Holt.
From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an entertaining and accessible guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries in When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought.
Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collection, Holt explores the human mind, the cosmos, and the thinkers who’ve tried to encompass the latter with the former. With his trademark clarity and humor, Holt probes the mysteries of quantum mechanics, the quest for the foundations of mathematics, and the nature of logic and truth.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase, guidelines, and details.
Where: Cellar Door Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 26th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 5225 Canyon Crest Dr., Suite 30A, Riverside, CA 92507
Website: https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/event/phy-sci-book-club-when-einstein-walked-godel
Book Talk: A Night of Pun-ny Romcoms: with Jayci Lee and Erin La Rosa – In-Person Event
Join Chevalier’s for a book talk with authors Jayci Lee and Erin La Rosa.
Jayci Lee presents her new book, Booked on a Feeling, which features an overachieving lawyer. A failing bookstore. A childhood friend. And the chance of a lifetime.
Lizzy Overachiever Chung, Esq. has her life mapped out neatly:
* Become a lawyer. Check.
* Join a prestigious law firm. Check.
* Make partner. In progress.
If all goes to plan, she will check off that last box in a couple years, make her parents proud, and live a successful, fulfilled life in L.A. What was not in her plans was passing out from a panic attack during a pivotal moment in her career.
Erin La Rosa presents her new book, For Butter or Worse, about two people who go together like water and oil.
All chef Nina Lyon wants is to make a name for herself in the culinary world and inspire young women everywhere to do the same. For too long, she’s been held back and underestimated by the male-dominated sphere of professional kitchens, and she’s had enough. Now, as co-host of the competitive reality TV series The Next Cooking Champ!, she finally has a real shot at being top tier in the foodie scene.
Too bad her co-host happens to be Hollywood’s smarmiest jerk.
NOTE: See site for book purchases, guidelines and details.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 26th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 133 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
The Poetry Lab: Workshop: To Be or Not to Be a Poet, with Kris Kaila at The Poetry Lab – In-Person Event
Join the Poetry lab to enroll in the writing workshop To Be or Not to Be, led by Kris Kaila.
Has the poetry of Shakespeare, Byron and Shelley scarred or scared you? Does poetry bring back memories of high school and college, and not the good kind? Spend a couple of hours with us and start to love poetry again, and maybe find the poet in you!
NOTE: See site for RSVP, event details.
Where: The Poetry Lab
Date: Tuesday the 26th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.thepoetrylab.com/upcoming-events/2022/braintrust/july-26
Benjamin Rosenbaum, with Ted Chiang, & The Unraveling – Online Event
Benjamin Rosenbaum, in conversation with Ted Chiang, will discuss his debut novel, The Unraveling.
In the far-off future, Fift is a Staid-gendered youth—working towards logic and thoughtfulness—just trying to figure out zir life in the bustling, but rigid social system of Fullbelly. And as if mastering zir three bodies and making zir twelve parents proud weren’t enough to handle, Fift’s growing relationship with Shria, an at-times emotional and passionate Vail-gendered bioengineer, is a controversy waiting to happen.
When Fift and Shria wind up at the center of a scandalous art spectacle that sparks off a multilayered Unraveling of society, Fift is torn between zir attraction to Shria and the safety of zir family, between staying true to zir feelings and social compliance…all while zir personal crises suddenly take on global significance. What’s a young Staid to do when the whole world is watching?
In his intricate and thoughtful debut novel, Benjamin Rosenbaum brings warmth, heart, and humor to this story of growing up in the distant future, interrogates exactly who a utopia is for, and how social structures only change when everyone has a voice. Like Chana Porter’s The Seep and Monica Byrne’s The Actual Star, Benjamin Rosenbaum’s The Unraveling is the latest in a line of science fiction that challenges gender, society, and culture, while showcasing an inclusive, expansive, and creative vision of what the future can be.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 26th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-benjamin-rosenbaum-presents-unraveling-ted-chiang
AAPI Book Club & SIGH, GONE at Bel Canto Bookstore – Online Event
Join the AAPI Book Club to discuss this month’s selection, Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In, by Phuc Tran.
This irreverent, funny, and moving tale of displacement and assimilation woven together with poignant themes from beloved works of classic literature.
In 1975, during the fall of Saigon, Phuc Tran immigrates to America along with his family. By sheer chance they land in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a small town where the Trans struggle to assimilate into their new life. In this coming-of-age memoir told through the themes of great books such as The Metamorphosis, The Scarlet Letter, The Iliad, and more, Tran navigates the push and pull of finding and accepting himself despite the challenges of immigration, feelings of isolation, and teenage rebellion, all while attempting to meet the rigid expectations set by his immigrant parents.
NOTE: See site for link and event details.
Where: Bel Canto Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 26th
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://belcantobooks.net/book-clubs or https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/read-aapi-book-club-269149
Sarah James, with Karolina Waclawiak, & The Woman with Two Shadows at Vroman’s – In-Person Event
Liska Jacobs, in conversation with Julia Claiborne Johnson, will discuss her book, The Woman with Two Shadows.
Lillian Kaufman hasn’t heard from her twin sister since Eleanor left for a mysterious job at an Army base somewhere in Tennessee. When she learns, on an unexpected phone call, that Eleanor is missing, Lillian takes a train from New York down to Oak Ridge to clear up the matter.
It turns out that the only way into Oak Ridge is to assume Eleanor’s identity, which Lillian plans to do swiftly and perfectly. But Eleanor has vanished without a trace—and she’s not the only one. And how do you find someone in a town so dangerous it doesn’t officially exist, when technically you don’t exist either?
Lillian is thrust into the epicenter of the gravest scientific undertaking of all time, with no idea who she can trust. And the more she pretends to be Eleanor, the more she loses her grip on herself.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Vroman’s
Date: Tuesday the 26th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/sarah-james-discusses-a-woman-with-two-shadows
The Virtual Cobalt Series & Open Mic with J R Turek – Virtual Zoom Event
The Virtual Cobalt Poets Series, presented by Rick Lupert via Zoom, will feature an Open Reading and guest J R Turek.
J R Turek is an internationally published poet, editor, and workshop leader. She has been the recipient of two Pushcart nominations and Proclamations for her dedication to Poetry from Nassau County, Suffolk County, the New York State Senate, and the New York State Assembly. J R Turek is the author of four full-length poetry collections: A is for Almost Anything, Imagistics, They Come And They Go, and B is for Betwixt and Between. Her work has been translated into Korean, Romanian, French, and Italian.
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 26th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html
Da Poetry Lounge IG Live Open Mic Night – IG Live Event
Every Tuesday (except for 3rd Tuesdays and special events) Da Poetry Lounge holds open mic nights. At an open mic, all are welcome to share their poetry or sit in the audience.
Summer is officially here and we’re back home EVERY TUESDAY.
$10 donation. Do NOT lineup prior to 7:30 p.m. Free parking adjacent to theatre.
See sites for details.
Where: DA Poetry Lounge
Date: Tuesday the 26th Check to Verify details.
Time: 9 pm – 11 pm
Address: IG Live (see site)
Website: https://www.instagram.com/dapoetrylounge_com/
SOM Tuesdays Open Mic at Di Piazza’s Pizza, Long Beach – In-Person Event
SOM Open Mic Tuesdays at Di Piazza’s are back! Come and share music, comedy, and poetry with us.
Where: Di Piazza’s Pizza (Check to verify)
Date: Tuesday the 26th
Time: 9 pm – 12 am
Address: 5205 E. Pacific Coast Hwy., Long Beach, CA
Website: Facebook
Adult Mystery Book Group Discussion: The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, by Eva Jurczyk at Once Upon a Time Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join us the Adult Mystery Book Discussion Group to discuss our July selection, The Department of Rare Books and Special collections, by Eva Jurczyk.
We will meet to discuss the book outside the store, in front of Star Café.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 27th
Time: 9 am
Address: 2207 Honolulu Ave., Montrose, CA 91020
Classics Book Club Discussion: Heart of Darkness at Granada Hills Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
The Classics Book Club discussion group discussion meets monthly and we will discuss the July selection, Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad.
Polish author Joseph Conrad is one of the greatest English-language novelists, a remarkable achievement considering English was not his first language. Conrad s literary works often featured a nautical setting, reflecting the influences of his early career in the Merchant Navy, and his depictions of the struggles of the human spirit in a cold, indifferent world are best exemplified in such seminal works as Heart of Darkness, Lord JimM, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, and Typhoon. Regarded as a forerunner of modernist literature, Conrad s writing style and characters have influenced such distinguished writers as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William S. Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, and George Orwell, among many others. Many of his novels have been adapted for film, most notably Heart of Darkness, which served as the inspiration and foundation for Francis Ford Coppola s 1979 film Apocalypse Now.
NOTE: See site for link and details.
Where: Granada Hills Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Wednesday the 27th
Time: 1:30 pm – 3 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/classics-book-club-discussion-heart-darkness
Quest Book Club: Braiding Sweetgrass at The Book Jewel Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join the Quest Book Club to discuss the book, Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
In Braiding Sweetgrass, we learn botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert).
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase, guidelines, and details.
Where: The Book Jewel Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 27th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 6259 W. 87th St., Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: https://www.facebook.com/BookJewelBookstore/
Mystery & Thriller Book Club: Call for the Dead at Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
The Mystery & Thriller Book Club discussion group meets monthly online, and we will discuss the July selection, John Le Carre’s novel, Call for the Dead.
NOTE: See site for link and details.
Where: Studio City Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Wednesday the 27th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/mystery-thriller-book-club-0
Katelyn Monroe Howes, with Lindsey Kelk, & The Awoken via Book Soup – In-Person Event
Join us to hear author Katelyn Monroe Howes, in conversation with Lindsey Kelk, discuss her book The Awoken: A Novel, a gripping story about prejudice, complicity the fears that tear us apart, and the hope that can bring us together,
When Alabine Rivers, a politically active young woman with a bright career and romance ahead of her, finds out the devastating news that she has terminal cancer, the only thing that gives her solace is the possibility of a second life through the emerging field of cryogenics.
A century later, scientists have indeed discovered how to bring back the dead from preservation, but humanity has been locked in a philosophical battle over the ethics of this new Godlike power, a battle that has turned violent: those who are resurrected, the Awoken, have been declared illegal and are to be shot on sight.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, tickets, and details.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Wednesday the 27th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/katelyn-monroe-howes
L.A. Times Book Club: Jennifer Grey & Out of the Corner at The Montalban Theatre – In-Person Event
Join us to hear actor Jennifer Grey, in conversation with Amy Kauffman, discuss her memoir Out of the Corner, about her best-known role as Baby Houseman in the film ”Dirty Dancing,”
In this memoir, Greys details her life growing up between New York and Malibu, the child of successful Hollywood parents. She writes, “I never considered becoming anything other than an actor.”
Grey takes readers from her breakout role in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” to her Season 11 win on “Dancing with the Stars.” She opens up about triumphs, relationships and the fallout from a cosmetic surgery gone devastatingly wrong. And she discusses co-star Patrick Swayze and making “Dirty Dancing,” a movie few, especially Grey, expected to be a big hit. “I had lower than low expectations,” Grey says of her reaction to an early screening.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, tickets, guidelines, and details.
Where: Montalban Theatre
Date: Wednesday the 27th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 1615 Vine St., Hollywood, CA 90028
At Skylight: Isaac Fitzgerald, with Emily St. John-Mandel, & Dirtbag, Massachusetts via Skylight Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join us to hear author Isaac Fitzgerald, in conversation with author Emily St. John-Mandel (The Station)present and discuss his book, Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confsssional.
Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He’s been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England. But before all that, he was a bomb that exploded his parents’ lives-or so he was told. In Dirtbag, Massachusetts, Fitzgerald, with warmth and humor, recounts his ongoing search for forgiveness, a more far-reaching vision of masculinity, and a more expansive definition of family and self.
Fitzgerald’s memoir-in-essays begins with a childhood that moves at breakneck speed from safety to violence, recounting an extraordinary pilgrimage through trauma to self-understanding and, ultimately, acceptance. From growing up in a Boston homeless shelter to bartending in San Francisco, from smuggling medical supplies into Burma to his lifelong struggle to make peace with his body, Fitzgerald strives to take control of his own story: one that aims to put aside anger, isolation, and entitlement to embrace the idea that one can be generous to oneself by being generous to others.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 27th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Anansi Virtual Writers Workshop at The World Stage – In-Person Event
The Anansi Writers Workshop was founded in 1990 by Kamau Daáood, Akilah Oliver, Nafis Nabawi and Anthony Lyons. In 1993, Michael Datcher initiated the development of a three-part format for the workshop. Our tradition of a community workshop began in the late 1960s at the Watts Writers’ Workshop, where World Stage co-founder Kamau Daáood started his writing career. For general information and booking, contact V. Kali, the Anansi Writers Workshop Coordinator, at vkaliflowers@gmail.com.
• 7:30p.m.–8:30p.m. — Formal workshop;
• 8:30p.m.–9:00p.m. — Featured reader;
• 9:05p.m.–10:00p.m. — Open mic
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
Date: Wednesday the 27th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: 4321 Dengan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: https://www.theworldstage.org/events.html
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 Jose Hernandez Diaz.
Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow. He is the author of The Fire Eater (Texas Review Press, 2020). His work appears in The American Poetry Review, Boulevard, Colorado Review, Huizache, Iowa Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, and in The Best American Nonrequired Reading Anthology 2011. He teaches creative writing online and edits for Frontier Poetry.
NOTE: See site for further details, tickets and information.
Where: Online event (Eventbrite)
Date: Wednesday the 27th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wednesday-night-poetry-workshop-tickets-388708606907
Flight School Open Mic Has Returned! at Playground Hookah Lounge – In-Person Event
Join us for the return of the weekly Flight School Open Mic, offered every Wednesday from 8pm – 12pm.
All arts are welcome: singing, dance, poetry, improv, comedy, music, and we learn to fly together, all balanced by host O. Smith and a full live band and DJ D-Major.
$10 Entry at the door. $8 tickets at Eventbrite.
NOTE: Check site for further details, updates, and information.
Where: Flight School Open Mic at the Playground
Date: Wednesday the 27th
Time: 8 pm – 12 am
Address: 630 N. La Brea Ave., Inglewood, CA 90302
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/flight-school-open-mic-tickets-362732902877?aff=erelpanelorg
Poetry Reading & Open Mic 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 Night.
The format is to welcome a featured poet for a reading, and an Open Mic reading. Tonight’s featured reader is Jean-Pierre Rueda.
Jean-Pierre Rueda was first published in Book by Authors: North Long Beach Anthology in 2009 and self-published his first bilingual chapbook Her Eyes Were the Moon and I Was the Waves in 2020. His work is featured in La Raíz Magazine, a literary magazine focusing on poetry and visual art. He recently released his first Spanish poetry collection HERENCIAS through Alegría Publishing. His book discusses love, family, heritage and celebrates historical Latinx figures as monuments of artistic and cultural success.
$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
Address: 261 N. Glassell St., Orange, CA 92866
Website: https://www.facebook.com/Two-Idiots-Peddling-Poetry/
Cover-to-Cover Book Club & The Book Women of Troublesome Creek via Mid-Valley Regional Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join the Cover-to-Cover Book Club to discuss this month’s selection, The Book Women of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson.
This novel of historical fiction is about the power of literacy over bigotry, hatred and intolerance, set in 1930’s rural Kentucky.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and details.
Where: Mid-Valley Regional Library, LAPL
Date: Thursday the 28th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: LAPL Online (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/cover-cover-book-club
LGTBQ Book Club: They Both Die at the End at Cellar Door Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join the LGBTQ Book Club to discuss the book, They Both Die at the End, by Adam Silvera.
Adam Silvera reminds us that there’s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, book purchase , guidelines, and details.
Where: Cellar Door Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 28th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 5225 Canyon Crest Dr., Suite 30A, Riverside, CA 92507
Website: https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/event/lgbtq-book-club-they-both-die-end
Jerry Stahl, with Evan Wright, & Nein, Nein! at Book Soup – In-Person Event
Join us to hear Jerry Stahl, in conversation with Evan Wright, discuss Nien, Nein!: One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust.
In September 2016, Jerry Stahl was feeling nervous on the eve of a two-week trip across Poland and Germany. But it was not just the stops at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau that gave him anxiety. It was the fact that he would be traveling with two dozen strangers, by bus. In a tour group. And he was not a tour-group kind of guy.
The decision to visit Holocaust-world did not come easy. Stahl’s lifelong depression at an all-time high, his career and personal life at an all-time low, he had the idea to go on a trip where the despair he was feeling–out-of- control sadness, regret, and fear, not just for himself, but for the entire United States–would be appropriate. And where was despair more appropriate than the land of the Six Million?
Seamlessly weaving global and personal history, through the lens of Stahl’s own bent perspective, Nein, Nein, Nein! stands out as a triumph of strange-o reporting, a tale that takes us from gang polkas to tour-rash to the truly disturbing snack bar at Auschwitz. Strap in for a raw, surreal, and redemptively hilarious trip. Get on the bus.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, tickets, and details.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Thursday the 28th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/jerry-stahl
At Skylight: Larisa Grollemond and Bryan C. Keene, & The Fantasy of the Middle Ages at Skylight Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join us to hear Larisa Grollemond & Bryan C. Keekne discuss their book, The Fantasy of the Middle Ages: An Epic Journey through Imaginary Medieval Worlds.
This abundantly illustrated book is an illuminating exploration of the impact of medieval imagery on three hundred years of visual culture.
From the soaring castles of Sleeping Beauty to the bloody battles of Game of Thrones, from Middle-earth in The Lord of the Rings to mythical beasts in Dungeons & Dragons, and from Medieval Times to the Renaissance Faire, the Middle Ages have inspired artists, playwrights, filmmakers, gamers, and writers for centuries. Indeed, no other historical era has captured the imaginations of so many creators.
This volume aims to uncover the many reasons why the Middle Ages have proven so applicable to a variety of modern moments from the eighteenth through the twenty-first century. These “medieval” worlds are often the perfect ground for exploring contemporary cultural concerns and anxieties, saying much more about the time and place in which they were created than they do about the actual conditions of the medieval period. With over 140 color illustrations, from sources ranging from thirteenth-century illuminated manuscripts to contemporary films and video games, and a preface by Game of Thrones costume designer Michele Clapton, The Fantasy of the Middle Ages will surprise and delight both enthusiasts and scholars.
Larisa Grollemond is assistant curator of manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum and was a contributing editor for Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World (Getty Publications, 2019).
Bryan C. Keene is an assistant professor of art history at Riverside City College and a former associate curator of manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum. He specializes in Italian manuscript illumination and codex cultures of the global Middle Ages.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 28th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-alison-b-hart-presents-work-wife-julia-phillips
Paperback Book Launch: It Never Ends by Tom Scharpling at Stories Books & Café – In-Person Event
Tom Scharpling, in conversation with Jason Woliner, will discussIt Never Ends,
It Never Ends is cult comedy icon and beloved radio host Tom Scharpling’s harrowing memoir of his coming of age, a story he has never told before. It’s the heartbreaking account of his attempt at suicide, two stays in a mental hospital, and the memory-wiping electroshock therapy that saved his life. After his rehabilitation, Scharpling committed himself to reinvention through the world of comedy. In this bestselling book he lifts the curtain on the turmoil that still follows him, despite all his accolades and achievements.
NOTE: See site for guidelines and details.
Where: Stories Books & Café
Date: Thursday the 28th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 1716 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
Website: https://storiesla.com/events
Fos–Thursday & FOST Artistic Collective Presents: Freedom of Speech Open Mic with Sabor y Cultura Café – In-Person & Online IG Event
Please help FOS’s in-person venue Sabor y Cultura with the link in the bio. Open Mic is currently only on IG Live at 8 pm, with sign-ups open on Wednesday at 3pm.
NOTE: See site for cost, event details.
Where: Freedom of Speech (FOS) Open Mic – In-Person & Online IG event
Date: Thursday the 28th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: 665 N. Heliotrope Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: https://www.instagram.com/fos_thursdays/
Seaside Storytime for Children at SMPL at Annenberg Community Beach House – In-Person Kids Event
The Santa Monica Public Library will host a Seaside Storytime for children from babies through pre-school age at the Annenberg Community Beach Housr.
NOTE: See site for guidelines and details.
Where: SMPL at Annenberg Community Beach House
Date: Friday the 29th
Time: 10 am – 10:30 am
Address: 415 Pacific Coast Hwy., Santa Monica CA 90402
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=34140
Your Author Series: Laurel Snyder & Endlessly Ever After via Central Library, LAPL – Online Kids Event
Join us for the Your Author Series to hear author Laurel Snyder discuss her children;s book, Endlessly Ever After: Pick Your Path to Countless Fairy Tale Endings.
Award-winning creators Laurel Snyder and Dan Santat transform a crowd of classic tales into an ever-changing, fascinating, laugh-out-loud choose-your-path picture book, in which you may find a sleeping maiden, waste away in a sticky licorice cage, discover the gold at the end of a wild goose chase, or maybe (just maybe) save yourself—and the day!
Streaming live on the library’s YouTube channel.
Those attending the virtual program will have an opportunity to win a free book
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and event details.
Where: Central Library, LAPL
Date: Friday the 29th
Time: 4 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/your-author-series-laurel-snyder
Backyard Poetry Reading Event Featuring Karen D. Chen & Open Mic – In-Person Event
Join us at Backyard Poetry & Open Mic, featuring artist and writer Karen D. Chen.
NOTE: See site for guidelines and details.
Where: Private Residence
Date: Friday the 29th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 5507 Norwich Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90032
Website: N/A
Liska Jacobs, with Meg Howrey, & The Pink Hotel at Book Soup – In-Person Event
Join us to hear author Liska Jacobs, in conversation with Meg Lowrey, discuss her new book, The Pink Hotel: A Novel.
Newlyweds Keith and Kit Collins can hardly believe their luck when the general manager of the iconic, opulent Pink Hotel invites them to come for a luxurious stay as a bid to hire Keith. Kit loves their small-town life, but Keith has always wanted more, and the glittering, lily-scented lobby makes him feel right at home.
Soon after their arrival, wildfires sweep through the surrounding mountains and Los Angeles becomes a pressure cooker, with riots breaking out across the city amid rolling blackouts. The Pink Hotel closes its doors to outsiders, and Keith and Kit find themselves confined with an anxious, disgruntled staff and a growing roster of eccentric, ultra-wealthy, dangerously idle guests who flock to the hotel for sanctuary, company, and entertainment.
The Pink Hotel exposes a tenuous class system within its walls, full of insurmountable expectations and unspoken resentments, which deteriorate as the city burns. In her barbed, provocative new novel, Liska Jacobs explores the corrosive nature of greed and interrogates the notion of true love, while hurtling readers toward certain disaster.
INOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Friday the 29th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/liska-jacobs
At Skylight: Ingrid Rojas, with Myriam Gurba, & The Man Who Could Move Clouds at Skylight Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join us to hear Ingrid Rojas, in conversation with Myriam Gurba discuss her memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds.
For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amid the political violence of 1980s and ’90s Colombia, in a house bustling with her mother’s fortune-telling clients, she was a hard child to surprise. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with what the family called “the secrets”: the power to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. And as the first woman to inherit “the secrets,” Rojas Contreras’ mother was just as powerful. Mami delighted in her ability to appear in two places at once, and she could cast out even the most persistent spirits with nothing more than a glass of water.
This legacy had always felt like it belonged to her mother and grandfather, until, while living in the U.S. in her twenties, Rojas Contreras suffered a head injury that left her with amnesia. As she regained partial memory, her family was excited to tell her that this had happened before: Decades ago Mami had taken a fall that left her with amnesia, too. And when she recovered, she had gained access to “the secrets.”
In 2012, spurred by a shared dream among Mami and her sisters, and her own powerful urge to relearn her family history in the aftermath of her memory loss, Rojas Contreras joins her mother on a journey to Colombia to disinter Nono’s remains. With Mami as her unpredictable, stubborn, and often hilarious guide, Rojas Contreras traces her lineage back to her Indigenous and Spanish roots, uncovering the violent and rigid colonial narrative that would eventually break her mestizo family into two camps: those who believe “the secrets” are a gift, and those who are convinced they are a curse.
Interweaving family stories more enchanting than those in any novel, resurrected Colombian history, and her own deeply personal reckonings with the bounds of reality, Rojas Contreras writes her way through the incomprehensible and into her inheritance. The result is a luminous testament to the power of storytelling as a healing art and an invitation to embrace the extraordinary.
Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her debut novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree was the silver medal winner in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, and a New York Times editor’s choice. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Believer, and Zyzzyva, among others. She lives in California.
Myriam Gurba is a writer and artist. She is the author of the true-crime memoir Mean, a New York Times editors’ choice. O, the Oprah Magazine, ranked Mean as one of the best LGBTQ books of all time. Publishers’ Weekly describes Gurba as having a voice like no other. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the Paris Review, TIME.com, and 4Columns. She has shown art in galleries, museums, and community centers. She lives in Long Beach, California, with herself.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Friday the 29th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Middle Grade Readers Book Club: Because of Mr. Terupt, by Rob Buyeh at Palisades Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person MG Event
Join us for a discussion of this month’s selection in the Middle Grade Readers Book Club, Because of Mr Terupt by author Rob Buyeh.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Palisades Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday 30th
Time: 10:30 am
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-middle-grade-readers-because-mr-terupt-rob-buyea
The Little Literary Fair (LITLIT) at Hauser & Wirth, Downtown Arts District – In-Person Event
Join the 2nd annual LITLIT Festival, a free two-day event celebrating independent publishing on the West Coast at Hauser & Wirth, AKA The Little Literary Fair.
Hosted by the Los Angeles Review of Books and Hauser & Wirth Publishers, LITLIT offers local presses and literary arts organizations a unique, two-day opportunity to share their perspectives, books, and goods with Angelenos of all stripes. Small presses and community organizations play an essential role in fostering new connections and ensuring a diversity of thought. As part of LARB’s mission to increase access to the publishing world, LITLIT aims to strengthen public and institutional support for independent book makers and the communities they sustain and create.
Through the generous support of Hauser & Wirth Publishers and our sponsors, this year we’ve developed even more exciting panel conversations, as well as great local food, specialty coffee and tea, screen printing, and bookish demonstrations for all ages. The presses and local businesses you’ll meet this weekend have modeled incredible resilience and hope over the past few years. We hope you walk away feeling inspired and with arms full of books!
See site for complete details, schedule, programs and registration for panel discussions and presentations.
NOTE: See site for guidelines, participants, and event details.
Where: Hauser & Wirth Bookstore
Date: Saturday 30th & Sunday the 31st
Time: 11 am – 6 pm
Address: 901 E. 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: https://litlit.org/
Summer Children’s Storytime at Re/Arte Centro Literario – In-Person Children’s Event
Join us for a Summer Children’s Bilingual Storytime event for kids, every Saturday morning.
NOTE: See site for event details.
Where: Re/Arte Centro Literario
Date: Saturday 30th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: 2123 East Cesar Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
Antoinette Portis Presents: A Seed Grows at Vroman’s – In-Person Children’s Event
Join us for a virtual event to hear author Antoinette Portis introduce her children’s book, A Seed Grows.
With evocative and lively illustrations, A Seed Grows offers a close-up view of each step of this process and the ways in which flowers and seeds depend on other creatures, with a striking fold-out spread of a full-grown sunflower and additional material at the back of the book explaining the science of plant life cycles.
Antoinette Portis is the author of A New Green Day, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and NCTE Notable Book in Poetry, as well as the Sibert Honor winning Hey, Water!
NOTE: See site for link and event details.
Where: Vroman’s
Date: Saturday 30th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/antoinette-portis-presents-a-seed-grows
Book Study: Radical Reproductive Justice at Café con Libros Press & Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join us for a Book Study of Radical Reproductive Justice.
Read and discuss with us.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details on this event.
Where: Café con Libros Press, Pomona
Date: Saturday the 30th 280 2nd St., Pomona, CA
Time: 2 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: 280 2nd St., Pomona, CA
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1186810912151209
The Little Literary Fair (LIT LIT) at Hauser & Wirth, Downtown Arts District – In-Person Event
Join Day 1 of the 2nd annual LIT LIT Festival, a free two-day event celebrating independent publishing on the West Coast at Hauser & Wirth, AKA The Little Literary Fair.
Hosted by the Los Angeles Review of Books and Hauser & Wirth Publishers, LITLIT offers local presses and literary arts organizations a unique, two-day opportunity to share their perspectives, books, and goods with Angelenos of all stripes. Small presses and community organizations play an essential role in fostering new connections and ensuring a diversity of thought. As part of LARB’s mission to increase access to the publishing world, LITLIT aims to strengthen public and institutional support for independent book makers and the communities they sustain and create.
Through the generous support of Hauser & Wirth Publishers and our sponsors, this year we’ve developed even more exciting panel conversations, as well as great local food, specialty coffee and tea, screen printing, and bookish demonstrations for all ages. The presses and local businesses you’ll meet this weekend have modeled incredible resilience and hope over the past few years. We hope you walk away feeling inspired and with arms full of books!
See site for complete details, schedule, programs and registration for panel discussions and presentations.
NOTE: See site for guidelines, participants, and event details.
Where: Hauser & Wirth Bookstore
Date: Saturday 30th & Sunday the 31st
Time: 11 am – 6 pm
Address: 901 E. 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: https://litlit.org/
At Skylight: Shaka Senghor, with Bryonn Rolly, & Letters to the Sons of Society at Skylight Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join us to hear Shaka Senghor, in conversation with Bryonn Rolly, discuss his book, Letters to the Sons of Society: A Father’s Invitation to Love, Honesty, and Freedom.
Shaka Senghor has lived the life of two fathers. With his first son, Jay, born shortly after Senghor was incarcerated for second-degree murder, he experienced the regret of his own mistakes and the disconnection caused by a society that sees Black lives as disposable. With his second, Sekou, born after Senghor’s release, he has experienced healing, transformation, intimacy, and the possibilities of a world where men and boys can openly show one another affection, support, and love.
In this collection of beautifully written letters to Jay and Sekou, Senghor traces his journey as a Black man in America and unpacks the toxic and misguided messages about masculinity, mental health, love, and success that boys learn from an early age. He issues a passionate call to all fathers and sons—fathers who don’t know how to show their sons love, sons who are navigating a fatherless world, boys who have been forced to grow up before their time—to cultivate positive relationships with other men, seek healing, tend to mental health, grow from pain, and rewrite the story that has been told about them.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 30th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-shaka-senghor-conversation-bryonn-rolly-bain
Darryl Fusaro, with Ed Biagiotti, & Break Out of Your Box at Village Well Books & Coffee – In-Person Event
Join author Daryl Fusaro, in conversation with Ed Biagiotti, for a discussion of Darryl’s new book, Break Out of Your Box.
Break Out of Your Box is about how success comes easiest and best through the application of love, not force. Don’t let fear keep you from making the journey. Read this book and gain the joyful confidence to step out boldly.
Artist Foozaro aka Darrell Fusaro has exhibited with Andy Warhol; created miniature FX for the blockbuster, “Con Air”, and was producer of the Emmy-nominated “Local Edition” on CNN. While serving in the US Coast Guard, he was awarded the Army Commendation Medal by the Secretary of the Army for personally bringing about superior relationships between the military and the civilian law enforcement community. Currently, he is co-host of the internationally popular podcast, “Funniest Thing! with Darrell and Ed”. And author of What if “Godzilla Just Wanted a Hug?” and the just released, “Break Out of Your Box”.
NOTE: See site for guidelines and details.
Where: Village Well Books & Coffee
Date: Saturday the 30th
Time: 5 am – 6 pm
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events/18788
The Little Literary Fair (LIT LIT) at Hauser & Wirth, Downtown Arts District – In-Person Event
Join Day 2 of the 2nd annual LIT LIT Festival, a free two-day event celebrating independent publishing on the West Coast at Hauser & Wirth, AKA The Little Literary Fair.
Hosted by the Los Angeles Review of Books and Hauser & Wirth Publishers, LITLIT offers local presses and literary arts organizations a unique, two-day opportunity to share their perspectives, books, and goods with Angelenos of all stripes. Small presses and community organizations play an essential role in fostering new connections and ensuring a diversity of thought. As part of LARB’s mission to increase access to the publishing world, LITLIT aims to strengthen public and institutional support for independent book makers and the communities they sustain and create.
Through the generous support of Hauser & Wirth Publishers and our sponsors, this year we’ve developed even more exciting panel conversations, as well as great local food, specialty coffee and tea, screen printing, and bookish demonstrations for all ages. The presses and local businesses you’ll meet this weekend have modeled incredible resilience and hope over the past few years. We hope you walk away feeling inspired and with arms full of books!
See site for complete details, schedule, programs and registration for panel discussions and presentations.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Hauser & Wirth
Date: Sunday the 31st
Time: 11 am – 6 pm
Address: 901 E. 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: https://litlit.org/
Burning Issues Book Club & GIVE PEOPLE MONEY at Bel Canto Bookstore – Online Event
Join the Burning Issues Book Club to read and discuss this month’s selection, GIVE PEOPLE MONEY: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World, by Annie Lowrey.
A brilliantly reported, global look at universal basic income—a stipend given to every citizen—and why it might be necessary in an age of rising inequality, persistent poverty, and dazzling technology.
Burning Issues Book Club (BIBC) is an online and local book club that gathers to read and discuss non-fiction works related to climate change, environmental degradation, environmental and social justice, and implementation of social change movements.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and event details.
Where: Bel Canto Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 31st
Time: 12 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/burning-issues-book-club-261829
Foz Meadows Book Launch: A Strange and Stubborn Endurance at The Ripped Bodice Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join us to hear Foz Meadows, in conversation with Karina Halle, present and discuss her book, A Strange and Stubborn Endurance.
There will be a book signing to follow.
This event is free to attend and tickets are not required, however, we do appreciate RSVPs when possible!
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: The Ripped Bodice Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 31st
Time: 2 pm
Address: Main Street, Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://www.therippedbodicela.com/events-and-tickets
At Skylight: Treehouse & Punk Rock Marthas Present: Jose Pimienta, with Henry Barajas, & Twin Cities at Skylight Bookstore – In-Person MG Event
Join Jose Pimiento, in conversationwith Henry Barajas, for a talk and signing of his book, Twin Cities.
Being twins means having a best friend forever…But when one twin goes to school in Mexico and the other goes to school across the border in Calexico, can that bond withstand the distance? A contemporary middle grade graphic novel about discovering who you are.
NOTE: See site for guidelines and details.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 31st
Time: 2 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
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