Los Angeles Literature Events 1/25/16 – 1/31/16
PEN Center USA’s Author Evening Series
On the 20th anniversary of their Emerging Voices Fellowship, Chevalier’s is honored to host PEN Center USA’s Author Evening Series to the public. These intimate evenings will feature authors discussing their books and the art and craft of writing. Featured are:
Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of the academic book “Race and Resistance” and the forthcoming “Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War” He teaches English and American Studies at USC, and his novel “The Sympathizer” won the First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction and is longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
Geronimo Johnson is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ workshop, a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, and has taught writing at UC Berkeley, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the Prague Summer Program, and San Quentin. His first novel, “Hold It ‘Til It Hurts,” was a finalist for the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award. His second novel, “Welcome to Braggsville,” was longlisted for the 2015 National Book Award and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
FREE for members. See site for single or series tickets and pricing.
Where: Chevalier’s Books
Date: Monday the 25th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: http://www.http://chevaliersbooks.com/
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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
Alejandro Morales, the son of Mexican immigrants, was born in Montebello, California, and grew up in Simons, the company town of the Simons Brick Yard #3, bordering Montebello. He earned his B.A. from California State University, Los Angeles, and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Rutgers University. Morales is currently a professor in the Department of Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Morales, as a novelist and professor, was awarded the Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature in 2007 from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
This book brought me to so many tears. It’s so breathtakingly heartbreaking and tragic and beautiful and observant in a way that seems so essential and sacred. I confess I started reading it almost a year ago when Chiwan first gave me a copy at my old apartment in Silver Lake, and I started reading it that night but had to stop. I was already going through such an intensely emotional time, and I cried all night and couldn’t handle the added heartbreak. I finished it this morning and I can’t say articulate the honesty and tragedy and beauty of the language contained in these poems. When I started the#finalpoem series, I asked this:
The following is a list of Los Angeles Literature that was published in 2015 followed by a synopsis. These books allow the reader to see Los Angeles in new and important ways, through the perspectives of its diverse citizens who see the city through their beliefs, understandings of the world and opinions. Even if someone studies Los Angeles for their entire career, one won’t know everything about Los Angeles there is to know and learn how expansive the city truly is.
