The 35th annual “Los Angeles Times Book Prizes” will be awarded Saturday, April 18th for best books of 2014, recognized in ten categories and the winners of the 2014 Robert Kirsch and Innovator’s Awards will be celebrated. The Public can purchase tickets to enjoy the suspense and surprises for $10.
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Festival of Books: Ryan Gattis reconstructs the 1992 L.A. Riots in ‘All Involved’
April 14, 2015
JASMINE ELIST
On April 29, 1992, violence erupted throughout Los Angeles in the wake of the Rodney King verdict: A jury had failed to convict four white LAPD officers in the beating of African American motorist King, despite the incident having been captured on video. People took to the streets in a fury that lasted six days, leaving more than 54 dead, more than 2,300 injured and causing nearly $1 billion in damage. Continue Reading Here (Los Angeles Times).
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The “Los Angeles Times Festival of Books” is the largest book festival in the country. Over two wonderful spring days next weekend, you’ll have a chance to meet your favorite authors, hear live music, see original works of art and photography, listen to poetry and even taste culinary creations that reflect this city’s diversity. Enjoy panels where Los Angeles authors such as Francesca Lia Block, Alex Espinoza, Janet Fitch, Naomi Hirahara, among other writers from around the country and the
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Aline Ohanesian reads from her debut novel “Orhan’s Inheritance.” The novel is about “When Orhan’s brilliant and eccentric grandfather, who built a dynasty out of making kilim rugs, is found dead in a vat of dye, Orhan inherits the decades-old business. But his grandfather’s will raises more questions than it answers. Kemal has left the family estate to a stranger thousands of miles away, an aging woman in a retirement home in Los Angeles. Her existence and secrecy about her past only deepen the mystery of why Orhan’s grandfather would have left their home to this woman rather than to his own family.”
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Author Ryan Gattis reads from his newest novel, “All Involved: A Novel of the 1992 L.A. Riots.” It’s a novel set in the chaotic streets of South Central L.A. in the wake of one of the most notorious and incendiary trials of the 1990s. It’s set in a sliver of Los Angeles largely ignored by the media during the riots. Ryan Gattis tells this story in seventeen interconnected first-person narratives. He lectures at Chapman University and lives in Los Angeles.
Milestone: The Literary Arts Journal of East LA College has been publishing emerging and established talent in Los Angeles for over 60 years. The 2015 issue introduces new voices alongside award winning authors like Luis J. Rodriguez and Joseph Mattson.
Los Angeles Mystery Writer Naomi Hirahara discusses and signs her new book “Grave on Grand Avenue” & Los Angeles poet Amy Uyematsu reads from her new poetry collection “The Yellow Door.”
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: 04/09/2015
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Celebrate Los Angeles’ literary community at Grand Park’s Downtown Bookfest on March 28, from Noon-5pm. This is the place to see, hear and read from the largest coalition of Los Angeles-based authors and publishers in a day for book lovers both big and small. Continue reading “Grand Park’s Downtown Bookfest: Saturday, March 28”
Come celebrate the works of Southern California author Michele Serros at Avenue 50 Studios in Highland Park on March 21. Hailing from Oxnard, California, Michele Serros drew on her life experiences and much of her works gave voice to the complexities of lives straddling two worlds: working-class Mexican American heritage and southern California pop culture. She described how she never quite fit in through poems and prose that were both poignant and hilarious. Continue reading “Avenue 50 Studio Presents En la Memoria de Michele Serros”
This website is to celebrate all that is Los Angeles literature. As of now the website is still a work in progress and more will come. Los Angeles Literature will celebrate the vibrant history of literature in Los Angeles. This website already has up a list of novels, short story collections, poetry books and nonfiction set in or about Los Angeles. The list is ever expanding and … Continue reading Weclome
