Los Angeles Literature Events 2/1/16 – 2/7/16
Misha Glenny at Chevalier’s
Join author and journalist Misha Glenny, in collaboration with the LA Review of Books, to hear him discuss and sign “.” This is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and perhaps Brazil’s most wanted criminal. Spanning rain forests and high security prisons, filthy slums and glittering shopping malls, this is also the story of how change came to Brazil.
Misha Glenny is an award winning author, and as a BBC Central Europe correspondent he covered the fall of Communism and the wars in the former Yugoslavia. He lives in London.
Where: Chevalier’s Books
Date: Monday, the 1st
Time: 7 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: http://chevaliersbooks.com/
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Radio Imagination celebrates the life and work of Pasadena science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006). Organized by Clockshop, the program centers on ten contemporary art and literary commissions that explore Butler’s archive at the Huntington Library. New work will premiere alongside performances, film screenings, and literary events throughout the year.
On historic Central Avenue near East 45th Street, the Vernon Branch Public Library looks like a jail—tall fences surround the circa 1915 building and a fenced walkway leads up to the doorway. Like the surrounding neighborhood, the library appears worn, beaten down. It’s situated on the edge of the high-crime Central-Alameda reporting area of L.A.P.D.’s Newton District—in the six-month period ending 
Wendy C. Ortiz’ first memoir, Excavation (Future Tense Books 2014), was a compelling book that dealt with the misuse of trust that was perpetrated when her private school teacher embarked on a relationship with her when she was only thirteen. Although she had plenty of publishing credits under her belt prior, this was her first official book, and quite the book it was. One year later, this nonfiction writer, poet, and essayist is presenting us with her latest endeavor Hollywood Notebook, which was published by Los Angeles based Writ Large Press in the summer of 2015.
PEN Center USA’s Author Evening Series
e work she has nominated for the prestigious national award, Pushcart Prize, considered America’s most honored literary recognition program.
Last night at Espacio 1839 in Boyle Heights, literature converged with social justice. It was a night to honor the worth, strength and humanness of women. Especially society’s most vulnerable women, who grow up without a stable family or are lost to the system. All this coincided with the release of Jesse Bliss’s book I Love Myself Golden, a book specifically to cultivate self-love and respect in the young women she’s encountered in Juvenile Hall working with the Inside OUT Writers Program.
Listening Room Open Mic
Issue 2 of 
Cadence Collective’s Poetry Party
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