Book Club Bonanza and Indigenous Voices: YA Reads A Snake Falls to Earth via Central Library, LAPL – Online Teen Event
This book club for teens will read a YA fiction book to read to celebrate Indigenous Voices month, and today will have an activity related to this month’s selection, A Snake Falls to Earth, by Little Darcie Badger.
NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEWBERY AWARD HONORAMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH LITERATURE AWARD HONORNATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST, among others.
In this work of Indigenous futurism, the author draws on traditional Lipan Apache storytelling structure to weave another unforgettable tale of monsters, magic, and family.
Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She’s always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories.
Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he’s been cast from home. He’s found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake.
Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange sickness that befalls Oli’s best friend, will drive their worlds together in ways they haven’t been in centuries.
NOTE: See site for link and details.
Where: Central Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 14th
Time: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-bonanza-indigenous-voices-0
Philosophical Horror Book Club: The Changeling at Cellar Door Books – In-Person Event
The Philosophical Horror Book Club will discuss its monthly selection, The Changeling, by Victor LaValle.
This is a multiple award-winning novel and a modern-day tale of terror rooted in ancient myth and folklore, about Apollo’s quest to find a wife and child unlike others.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Cellar Door Books
Date: Monday the 21st
Time: 6 pm
Address: 5225 Canyon Crest Dr., Riverside CA 92507
Website: https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/event/philosophical-horror-book-club-changeling
Book Club: La Rose via Sherman Oaks Library, LAPL – Online Event
This book club will read a novel to read to celebrate Indigenous Voices month, and will discuss this month’s selection, La Rose, by Louise Erdrich, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and finalist for the PEN Faulkner Award.
In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize nominee The Plague of Doves, wields her breathtaking narrative magic in an emotionally haunting contemporary tale of a tragic accident, a demand for justice, and a profound act of atonement with ancient roots in Native American culture.
Inspiring and affecting, LaRose is a powerful exploration of loss, justice, and the reparation of the human heart, and an unforgettable, dazzling tour de force from one of America’s most distinguished literary masters.
NOTE: See site for link and details.
Where: Sherman Oaks Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 14th
Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/sherman-oaks-book-club-larose-louise-erdrich
Ryan Pfluger, with Fran Tirado, & Holding Space: Life and Love Through a Queer Eye at Book Soup – In-Person Event
Ryan Pfluger, in conversation with Fran Tirado, will present his book, Holding Space: Life and Love Through a Queer Eye.
This book is an incredible photo and story collection depicting modern love and relationships in all their joy, vulnerability, and affection.
Throughout 2020 and 2021, during a time of intense personal and political upheaval, artist, advocate, and photographer Ryan Pfluger set out to capture intimate images of queer, interracial couples, along with personal insight into their relationships in today’s world. Featured together for the first time in Holding Space, this unique collection of modern love in its many forms across the spectrum of race, sexuality, and gender identity and gives space to these couples to share short, revealing stories about their relationships.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Monday the 21st
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/ryan-pfluger-fran-tirado
Main Library Book Discussion Group: The Bell Jar via Main Santa Monica Library, SMPL – Online Event
This book club will read and discuss this month’s selection, The Bell Jar, by the late poet and writer Sylvia Plath. This book is a realistic and emotional novel about a woman battling mental illness and societal pressures written by the iconic American writer Sylvia Plath.
Contact jeff.schwartz@santamonica.gov for the Zoom link.
NOTE: See site for link and details.
Where: Main Library, SMPL
Date: Monday the 21st
Time: 7 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=33898
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)
Date: Monday the 21st
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online (see site)
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/monday-night-fiction-workshop-tickets-468407177477
Under the Mic Influence & Open Mic featuring Shelley Bruce – In-Person Event
Join host Kuahmel Alyeeus KuahAllah and DJ Kev Jam for poetry, Open Mic, rare grooves, cocktails, tasty bites.
Shelley Bruce will be the featured artist!
Shelly Bruce is founder of the new BIPOC Community Center and the grassoroot.org@day.of.healing, and event curator.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, cost, and details.
Where: LB Unified Bar & Lounge
Date: Monday the 21st
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 2222 E. Anaheim, Long Beach, CA 90804
Website: https://www.facebook.com/photo/ or https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100011056843482
Come Write In! NANOWRIMO Event at John C. Fremont Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Do you NaNo? November is National Novel Writing Month.
If you’re looking for a place to work on your book, join us for silent writing sessions in our community room on Tuesday and Thursday evenings in November.
Note: There will be no event on Thursday, November 24.
Call (323) 962-3521 or email jcfrmt@lapl.org with questions about the event.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: John C. Fremont Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 5 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: 6121 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/come-write
The Mic at Micky’s Open Mic, with Hosts Brian Sonia-Wallace & Nate Lovett at Micky’s Nightclub & Bar – In-Person Event
Join The Mic at Micky’s Open Mic and Literary Readings, hosted by West Hollywood Poet Laureate Brian Sonia-Wallace, Nate Lovett and Tony Moore.
This is a weekly event for creatives to collaborate and write something for the Mic and/or sign up for the Open Mic, limited to 3-5 minutes per person, and offering poems, stories and music.
Located in the heart of one of LA’s oldest gay clubs, this space promises connection and community for folks across the LGBTQ+ spectrum (and allies!) before the untz untz starts.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Micky’s Nightclub & Bar in West Hollywood (Upstairs)
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 6 pm – 9 pm
Address: 8857 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-mic-mickys-tickets-383607970767?aff=erelpanelorg
Phy-Sci Book Club: How to Survive a Plague at Cellar Door Books – In-Person Event
The Phy-Sci Book Club will discuss its monthly selection, How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS, by David France.
This book is a definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, here is the incredible story of the grassroots activists whose work turned HIV from a mostly fatal infection to a manageable disease. Almost universally ignored, these men and women learned to become their own researchers, lobbyists, and drug smugglers, established their own newspapers and research journals, and went on to force reform in the nation’s disease-fighting agencies. From the creator of, and inspired by, the seminal documentary of the same name, How to Survive a Plague is an unparalleled insider’s account of a pivotal moment in the history of American civil rights.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Cellar Door Books
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 6 pm
Address: 5225 Canyon Crest Dr., Riverside CA 92507
Website: https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/event/phy-sci-book-club-how-survive-plague
Bilingual Reading Group (Every other Tuesday) with Dr. Jose Prado at Re/Arte – In-Person Event
The Bilingual Reading Group is reading and discussing Volume 1 of “Capital” by Karl Marx. Discussion facilitated by Jose Prado, Ph.D. professor of Sociology at CSUDH
NOTE: See site for RSVP, further details, guidelines & information.
Where: Re/Arte Centro Literario
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 6:30 pm – 8 pm
Address: 2123 East Cesar Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 900
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
Mystery Book Club Event & Something in the Water at Playa Vista Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
The Playa Vista Mystery Book Club will discuss this month’s selection, Something in the Water, by Catherine Steadman.
This debut novel is a psychological thriller about a dream couple on a honeymoon in Bora Bora, where the author challenges the reader to confront the hopes we desperately cling to, the ideals we’re tempted to abandon, and the perfect lies we tell ourselves.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Playa Vista Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 6400 Playa Vista Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90094
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/mystery-book-club-2
Richard Conyngham & All Rise: Resistance and Rebellion in South Africa at Page Against the Machine (PATM) – In-Person Event
Richard Conyngham will present and discuss his graphic anthology, All Rise: Resistance and Rebellion in South Africa.
South African-born writer and educator Richard Conyngham will be presenting and signing his anthology, All Rise, which presents six true stories of working-class resistance against South Africa’s colonial government in the years leading up to Apartheid. Each of the six stories is illustrated by a different South African artist, and focuses on previously untold stories of immigrants, miners, washerwomen, and other everyday people who bore the brunt of oppression and risked their lives to bring about positive change for future generations.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Page Against the Machine (PATM)
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 2714 E. 4th St., Long Beach, CA 90814
Website: https://www.facebook.com/patmbooks/photos/a.2026040927451869/5575623815826878/
The Virtual Cobalt Series & Open Mic with Ruth Madievsky via Online Zoom Event
The Virtual Cobalt Poets Series, presented by Rick Lupert via Zoom, will feature an Open Reading and guest Ruth Madievsky.
Ruth Madievsky is the author of All-Night Pharmacy (Catapult, 2023) and Emergency Brake (Tavern Books, 2016). The winner of The American Poetry Review’s Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, she is a founding member of the Cheburashka Collective, a community of women and nonbinary writers whose identity has been shaped by immigration from the Soviet Union to the United States. She works as a primary care and HIV clinical pharmacist, and lives in Los Angeles, California.
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html
The Sunless Sea Open Mic: Poetry and Spoken Word Show – In-Person Event
The Sunless Sea Open Mic: Poetry and Spoken Word Show is offered every week at the Unurban Coffee House. Hosted by DeForest Wright, all are invited to attend.
NOTE: Details at event link.
Where: Unurban Coffee House
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: 3301 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica 90405
Website: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1699147113818899
Da Poetry Lounge Tuesday Open Mic at Greenway Court – In-Person Event
The nation’s largest weekly Open Mic event is 24 years strong. It takes place every Tuesday and is open to all ages. Third Tuesdays are SLAM NIGHTS! A slam is a poetry competition.
$10 donation. Do NOT line up prior to 7:30 p.m. Free parking adjacent to theatre.
See sites for details.
Where: Greenway Court Theatre and YouTube Live Stream
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 9 pm – 11 pm
Address: 544 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90036
Website: https://www.instagram.com/p/ChLUBSRPCFb/ or https://www.dapoetrylounge.com/admission
Mystery Book Club Event & The Spanish Daughter at Once Upon a Time Bookstore – In-Person Event
The Mystery Book Club will discuss this month’s selection, The Spanish Daughter. by Lorena Hughes.
This historical fiction novel is a suspenseful family saga filled with unpredictable twists. Set on an Ecuadoran cacao plantation, the drama is filled with sibling rivalry and betrayals. Threaded throughout this family saga are descriptions of cocoa-making that will make your mouth water for chocolate.
Whether you loved it, hated it, or haven’t finished it, we want to see you at our Mystery Book Group at America’s Oldest Children’s Bookstore!
We will be meeting to discuss the book outside of the shop in the circle in front of Star Cafe.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 23rd
Time: 9 am
Address: 2207 Honolulu Ave., Montrose, CA 91020
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/mystery-book-group-spanish-daughter-lorena-hughes
Classics Book Club Discussion: The Remains of the Day at Granada Hills Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Granada Hills Branch Library hosts an online Classics Book Club discussion of The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguto.
This novel is the story by and about a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past, to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the “great gentleman,” Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington’s “greatness,” and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.
Please email grnhls@lapl.org for the invitation link.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and details.
Where: Granada Hills Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Wednesday the 23rd
Time: 1:30 pm – 3 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/classics-book-club-discussion-remains-day
NANOWRIMO Write-In Event at Venice Memorial Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
November is National Novel Writing Month.
Need time and space to write during NaNoWriMo? The Venice Library is providing two hours of weekly space, just for you! We may write straight through or do sprints of 25 minutes at a time.
Open to all. Refreshments will be provided.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Venice-Abbot Kinney Memorial Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Wednesday the 23rd
Time: 3:30 pm
Address: 501 S. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/nanowrimo-write
NANOWRIMO Write-In Event at the Fabulous Central Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
November is National Novel Writing Month.
Join us in person as we celebrate NaNoWriMo (National Novel-Writing Month) by offering weekly “Write In” sessions in our cool new study rooms! These small collaboration-friendly spaces feature wi-fi, outlets, comfy chairs, and whiteboards. Light refreshments will be served along with literary inspiration. Attendees will also receive some library swag! What more could an aspiring novelist ask? Space is limited, so email fiction@lapl.org to register today.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Central Library, LAPL, Literature & Fiction Study Rooms
Date: Wednesday the 23rd
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: 630 W. 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/nanowrimo-write-ins-fabulous-central-library
Jaguarx Feminist Collective Meeting, hosted by Viva Padilla at Re/Arte – In-Person Event
The Jaguarx Feminist Collective Meeting will be hosted by writer Viva Padilla.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, further details, guidelines & information.
Where: Re/Arte Centro Literario
Date: Wednesday the 23rd
Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: 2123 East Cesar Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 900
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
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 23rd
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: 4321 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: https://www.theworldstage.org/events.html
Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop a 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: Beyond Baroque
Date: Wednesday the 23rd
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wednesday-night-poetry-workshop-tickets-469945247887
Flight School Open Mic at Playground Hookah Lounge – In-Person Event
Flight School Open Mic is offered every Wednesday.
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 23rd
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-362733073387?aff=erelpanelorg
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Writer’s Workshop with Editor-in-Chief of Dryland Literary Journal, Viva Padilla at Re/Arte – In-Person Event
Join us for a Writer’s Workshop led by writer Viva Padilla to focus on getting your work published. Bring your work to get feedback. Donation of $15 minimum encouraged.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, further details, guidelines & information.
Where: Re/Arte Centro Literario
Date: Thursday the 24th (Check to verify)
Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: 2123 East Cesar Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 900
Website: https://reartela.com/events%2Feventos
Black Lit Book Club & Palmares at Cellar Door Books – In-Person Event
The Black Lit Book Club will discuss its monthly selection, Palmares, by Gayle Jonesan.
This book is an epic rendering of a Black woman’s journey through slavery and liberation, set in 17th-century colonial Brazil; and the return of a major voice in American literature.
First discovered and edited by Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones has been described as one of the great literary writers of the 20th century. Now, for the first time in over 20 years, Jones is ready to publish again. Palmares is the first of five new works by Gayl Jones to be published in the next two years, rewarding longtime fans and bringing her talent to a new generation of readers.
Intricate and compelling, Palmares recounts the journey of Almeyda, a Black slave girl who comes of age on Portuguese plantations and escapes to a fugitive slave settlement called Palmares. Following its destruction, Almeyda embarks on a journey across colonial Brazil to find her husband, lost in battle.
Gayl Jones was born in Kentucky in 1949. She attended Connecticut College and Brown University, and has taught at Wellesley and the University of Michigan. Her books include Corregidora, Eva’s Man, Mosquito, and The Healing, the last a National Book Award finalist and New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Cellar Door Books
Date: Friday the 25th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 5225 Canyon Crest Dr., Riverside CA 92507
Website: https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/event/black-lit-book-club-palmares
LGBTQ Open Mic Night at Café con Libros Press in Pomona – In-Person Event
The LGBTQ Open Mic Night is held every 4th Friday of the month, and is hosted by Liam and Charlie.
Share in a poem (serious, fun, or saucy) or enjoy a fun round of BEST STORY WINS!
NOTE: See site for RSVP, further details, guidelines & information.
Where: Café con Libros Press
Date: Friday the 25th
Time: 6:30 pm – 8 pm
Address: 208 W. 2nd St., Pomona, CA 91766
Website: https://cafeconlibrospress.org/event-calendar/
The Post Up Open Mic
The Post Up is an open mic founded and hosted by Brenda Vaca, originally as a virtual open mic. In August of 2022, the open mic found a residency and became a hybrid open mic, IG and in-person.
Where: Every third Friday: 7:30 pm
Where: Uptown Plants by Casa Verde LA
Address: 12909 Philadelphia St, Whittier, CA 90601
Website: Instagram
Indies First Small Business Saturday Celebration at Once Upon a Time Bookstore – In-Person Event
This event celebrates local independent bookstores, and local authors make appearances to promote their books prior to the holidays.
The author schedule for today at Once Upon a Time includes:
10 am – 11 am – Devon Nunnally & Bianina Alexanian for There’s a Spider in My Bed
Noon to 1 pm – Adam Borba for Outside Nowhere
Noon to 1 pm – Natalie Andrewson illustrator of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King: The Graphic Novel
2 pm – 3 pm – Andrea J. Loney for Curve and Flow
2 pm – 3 pm – Janie Emaus for Latkes for Santa Claus
3 pm – 4 pm – Danielle Davis for To Make
3 pm – 4 pm – Naz Kutub for The Loophole
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and event details.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 10 am – 4 pm
Address: 2207 Honolulu Ave., Montrose, CA 91020
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/indies-first-small-business-saturday-2022
Small Business Saturday Celebration at pages: a bookstore– In-Person Event
Small Business Saturday® is a holiday shopping tradition, backed by American Express, that celebrates small businesses like Pages. On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, come by the store between 10:00am and 6:00pm on the big day.
We will be hosting the following authors who will sign their books in our courtyard:
Gary Goldstein will present and sign The Mother I Never Had
Thea Rosemary will present and sign Not for Show
Mickey Bridges will present and sign It’s About Time
Camille Cabrera will present and sign Chronometer
Cindy Kehagiaras will present and sign Two Princes
Catherine Auman will present and sign Tantric Dating
Dr. Ellis Levin will present and sign You are What You Secrete
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: pages: a bookstore (in the Courtyard)
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 11 am – 3 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/small-business-saturday-22
Mystery Book Club & A Dark Adapted Eye at Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
The Mystery Book Club will discuss this month’s selection, A Dark Adapted Eye, by Barbara Vine.
Amazon’s review tells us: “Writing under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, Ruth Rendell departs from her famous detective team of Wexford and Burden to tell a gripping tale of family madness. Vera Hillyard is a domineering and possessive woman who strives for obsessive control over a malicious older son, a youngest son who is–or isn’t–illegitimate, and her younger sister, Eden, who secretly seeks to escape Vera’s grasp and instead provokes a murder. This winner of the 1986 Edgar Award for best mystery novel belongs to the genre of old murders reconsidered and the question of who did what to whom and why is teasingly left unresolved.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 11 am
Address: 1246 Glendon Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/mystery-book-club-3
Fourth Saturdays: Poetry at the Claremont Library Presents: Poets About Town Open Mic – In-Person Event
Fourth Saturdays Poetry Series presents a special November poetry reading, the annual Poets About Town open mic!
In person!
You are invited to share your poems at our annual Poets About Town open reading & showcase.
Bring 2 poems or 2 pages (whichever comes first) to read.
Open Mic sign up starts at 1:50pm.
Published a collection of poems recently? Let’s celebrate your hard work! We invite you to bring copies of your title to sell or trade.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details
Where: Claremont Helen Fenwick Library
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 208 N. Harvard Ave., Claremont, CA 91711
Website: https://allevents.in/mobile/amp-event.php?event_id=200023479183530
Patrick Quinn & Bar Keeps: A Collection of California Cocktail Napkins at Book Soup – In-Person Event
Patrick Quinn will present his book, Bar Keeps: A Collection of California Cocktail Napkins. This is a fun and fabulous “coffee table” book tour through the cocktail napkins of the golden state. Hundreds of images of vintage cocktail napkins will surprise and delight anyone who is a fan of cocktail culture, roadside diners, hidden dives, tiki bars, and more.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details
Where: Book Soup
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/patrick-quinn
Encino-Tarzana Open Mike on Last Saturday of the Month – Online Zoom Event
The Encino-Tarzana Open Mike is held virtually via Zoom on the last Saturday of every month.
Bring your poems! Bring your listening! Bring your cheer!
Email wyatt.zoom@gmail.com for passcode.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Online Zoom Event – Check to verify.
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 2 pm – 4:30 pm
Address: Online Zoom Event ID: 852 1372 8144 (Link below)
Arroyo Seco Book Club at Arroyo Seco Regional Library, LAPL – In-Person & Online Hybrid Event
The Arroyo Seco Book Club will discuss this month’s selection in a hybrid event, offered both in-person and online.
Email ayosco@lapl.org for participation details.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Arroyo Seco Branch Library, LAPL Hybrid Event
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 6145 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90042
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/arroyo-book-club-3
Saturday Afternoon Poetry: Print & Internet Publishing Workshop with Ruth Nolan & A. A. Vincent & Four Feathers Readers & Guests – Online Only Event
Saturday Afternoon Poetry presents a Print and Internet Publishing Workshop with Ruth Nolan and A. A. VINCENT + Poets published in Four Feathers Press’ 4 IN 1: VOL.1 (Don Kingfisher Campbell, Linda M Crate, Bruce McRae, and Alicia Viguer-Espert) and CHILDREN OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: POETRY OF CHILDHOOD read their poetry
Ruth Nolan is a native of the Mojave Desert in the Apple Valley area and Associate Professor of English College of the Desert near Palm Springs, California. She is also a poet, writer, and book editor/publisher. For two summer seasons, 1986-87, she worked for the BLM as a helicopter hotshot and engine crew firefighter in the California Desert District, and has extensively hiked, traveled, and embraced the essence of her desert homeland.
Nolan is editor of the new anthology, No Place for a Puritan: the literature of California’s deserts, published by Heyday Books. She was awarded a Joshua Tree National Park Affiliate Writers Residency for 2008-09, and recently collaborated on a film about the park with the UCR/California Museum of Photography. Her poetry has appeared in many literary publications. She co-edits Phantom Seed, a bi-annual literary magazine dedicated to the nuances of the California desert and is advisor to the College of the Desert literary/visual arts magazine, Solstice. Her poetry collections include Wild Wash Road (1996) and Dry Waterfall (2008.)
A. A. Vincent is a writer, essayist and the author of PERSON: PERCEIVED GIRL.
PERSON, PERCEIVED GIRL is a debut poetry collection that explores Blackness—specifically queer, Midwestern, disabled, and transracially adopted Blackness. Poems in this manuscript explore identity, lineage, and body.
All events are curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Where: Saturday Afternoon Poetry
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online Zoom Event Only (see site)
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
Vroman’s Local Author Day: Sweet Zivile, Wendy Baker & Anita Petty at Vroman’s – In-Person Event
Three local authors will present and discuss their new works:
Sweet Zivile presents Food, Love and Harmony in Our New Home.
In this book you will find not only beautiful and delicious recipes, tips and tricks, along with several step-by-step time-lines of how to host dinners and parties that will not soon be forgotten, if ever, but also tips how to be a lady, etiquette lessons and how to take care of the ones you love.
Wendy Baker presents My Name Was Mushroom: My Life as a Teenage Runaway.
At age 14, Wendy Gossard was drawn by the tranquil blue eyes and personal magnetism of a man known as Yahowah, leader of a spiritual group called the Source Family. Fleeing her own family and becoming a fugitive from justice in the state of California, Wendy followed the 1970s cult group across settlements in California and Hawaii on a quest for spiritual direction, communal harmony, and basic survival.
Anita Petty presents Money Switch: Flip Yourself onto Happiness, Health, & Wealth – The New System for Financial Intelligence.
Many people dream of being financially successful, but few actually achieve it. So what is it that separates the successful ones from those who crash and burn? What does it actually take to transform your dreams into reality? On the road to financial success, you will undoubtedly face challenges and concerns that can keep you up at night. This book is designed to give you six steps to help you navigate through those challenges.
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Where: Vroman’s
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/local-author-day-november-26
Janet Rodriguez & Making an American Family: A Recipe in Five Generations at LibroMobile – Online IG Event
Join LibroMobile to hear Janet Rodriguez present and discuss her book Making an American Family: A Recipe in Five Generations,
This book is the progressive story of one family and is told through five generations, beginning with their journey into the United States during the Mexican Revolution, and culminating with their posterity, attending school online during the COVID19 pandemic. A family memoir, told through a chorus of voices, invites the reader into the multi-sensorial experience of memory and story. sensorial experience of memory and story. sensorial experience of memory and story.
Janet Rodriguez is an author, teacher, and editor living in Northern California. In the United States, her work has appeared in Hobart, Pangyrus, Eclectica, The Rumpus, Cloud Women’s Quarterly, American River Review, and Calaveras Station. She is the winner of the Bazanella Literary Award for Short Fiction and the Literary Insight for Work in Translation Award, both from CSUS Sacramento in 2017. Rodriguez has also co-authored two memoirs, published in South Africa. Her short stories, essays, and poetry usually deal with themes involving morality in faith communities and the mixed-race experience in a culturally binary world. She holds an MFA from Antioch University, Los Angeles. She is currently Assistant Editor of Interviews at The Rumpus.
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Where: LibroMobile
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 1150 S, Bristol St., Santa Ana, CA 92704
NoHo Book Club & The Dig at North Hollywood Regional Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
The NoHo Book Club will discuss this month’s selection, The Dig: A Novel, by John Preston.
THE BASIS FOR THE NETFLIX FILM STARRING CAREY MULLIGAN, RALPH FIENNES, AND LILY JAMES, this book is a literary adventure that tells the story of a priceless buried treasure discovered in England on the eve of World War II. In the long, hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war, but on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind. Mrs. Pretty, the widowed owner of the farm, has had her hunch confirmed that the mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary find. This fictional recreation of the famed Sutton Hoo dig follows three months of intense activity when locals fought outsiders, professionals thwarted amateurs, and love and rivalry flourished in equal measure. As the war looms ever closer, engraved gold peeks through the soil, and each character searches for answers in the buried treasure. Their threads of love, loss, and aspiration weave a common awareness of the past as something that can never truly be left behind.
Copies of the book are available for checkout at the branch. New members are always welcome.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: North Hollywood Amelia Earhart Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: 5211 Tujunga Ave., North Hollywood, CA 91601
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/noho-person-book-club
David Ambrose & A Place Called Home: A Memoir at Book Soup – In-Person Event
David Ambrose will present his book, A Place Called Home: A Memoir.
This is a galvanizing, stirring memoir about growing up homeless and in foster care and rising to become a leading advocate for child welfare, recognized by President Obama as an American Champion of Change.
There are millions of homeless children in America today and in A Place Called Home, award-winning child welfare advocate David Ambroz writes about growing up homeless in New York for eleven years and his subsequent years in foster care, offering a window into what so many kids living in poverty experience every day. It’s at once a gripping personal account of deprivation–how one boy survived it, and ultimately thrived–and a resounding call for readers to move from empathy to action.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details
Where: Book Soup
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/david-ambroz
Historical Fiction Book Club & & Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch at Cellar Door Books – In-Person Kids & MG Event
The Historical Fiction Book Club will discuss this month’s selection, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch, by Rivka Galchen.
This book is the startling, witty, highly anticipated second novel from the critically acclaimed author of Atmospheric Disturbances.
The story begins in 1618, in the German duchy of Württemberg. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years’ War has begun, and fear and suspicion are in the air throughout the Holy Roman Empire. In the small town of Leonberg, Katharina Kepler is accused of being a witch.
Drawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination, sly humor, and intellectual fire for which the author is known, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch will both provoke and entertain. The story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear is a tale for our time. This bold new novel touchingly illuminates a society and a family undone by superstition, the state, and the mortal convulsions of history.
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Where: Cellar Door Books
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 5225 Canyon Crest Dr., #30A, Riverside CA 92507
Griot Café Open Mic with Sistah Shy & Samuel Rain at Shades of Africa, Long Beach – In-Person Event
Sistah Shy & Samuel Rain host the Griot Café Open Mic & Poetry event every Saturday evening at Shades of Africa in Long Beach. See site to subscribe for reminders, etc.
Where: Griot Café at Shades of Africa
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 1001 E. 4th St., Long Beach, CA 90802
Website: https://shadesofafrika.com/griot-cafe-open-mic-poetry/
Kids Storytime and Crafts with Shira Sergant at The Village Well Books & Coffee– In-Person Event
Village Well presents Storytime and Crafts for kids with Shira Sergant.
Local educator and parent Shira Sergant is back for the third time with a fun morning of crafts and stories.
All ages welcome, perfect for Ages 5-12
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Where: Village Well Books & Coffee
Date: Sunday the 27th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd., Culver City, CA 90323
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events
Burning Issues Book Club & Decolonizing Wealth via Bel Canto Books – Online Event
The Burning Issues Book Club will meet online to discuss this month’s selection, Decolonizing Wealth (2nd Edition): Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance, by Edgar Vlllanueva.
Villanueva offers radical provocations to funders and outlines his Seven Steps for Healing. With great compassion–because the Native way is to bring the oppressor into the circle of healing–Villanueva is able to both diagnose the fatal flaws in philanthropy and provide thoughtful solutions to these systemic imbalances. Decolonizing Wealth is a timely and critical book that preaches for mutually assured liberation in which we are all inter-connected
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and details.
Where: Bel Canto Books
Date: Sunday the 27th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/burning-issues-book-club-261829
Latinx Book Club & & Lobizona: A Novel at Cellar Door Books – In-Person Event
The Latinx Book Club will discuss this month’s selection, Lobizona: A Novel (Wolves of No World #1), by Romina Garber.
Imagine a world straight out of Argentine folklore, where the seventh consecutive daughter is born a bruja and the seventh consecutive son is a lobizón, a werewolf. A world where her unusual eyes allow her to belong.
As Manu uncovers her own story and traces her real heritage all the way back to a cursed city in Argentina, she learns it’s not just her U.S. residency that’s illegal, it’s her entire existence.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Cellar Door Books
Date: Sunday the 27th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 5225 Canyon Crest Dr., #30A, Riverside CA 92507
Website: https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/event/latinx-book-club-lobizona
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