Roll Out the Collection: Chola Debut
Book review for “Chola Salvation,” the debut book by Eastside native Estella Gonzalez. Continue reading Roll Out the Collection: Chola Debut
Author: Brian Dunlap
Brian Dunlap is a native Angeleño capturing the city’s stories hidden in plain sight. He’s the author of the chapbook Concrete Paradise (Finishing Line Press, 2018) and the winner of a Marvin Bell Memorial Poetry Prize from december magazine judged by former Los Ángeles Poet Laureate Luis J. Rodriguez. He's also the Editor-in-Chief of Los Angeles Literature, an independent online magazine covering the Greater Los Ángeles literary community.
Interview: The Heart of Lisbeth Coiman
An interview with L.Á. poet and memoirist and author of the newly released poetry collection “Uprising/Alzamiento” (Finishing Line Press, 2021). Continue reading Interview: The Heart of Lisbeth Coiman
Los Angeles Literature Events: 09/26/21 – 10/03/21
Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Sheetal Sheth, with Nazanin Boniadi, & Bravo Anjali! via Diesel Bookstore – Online Kids IG Live Event
Join us to hear author Sheetal,in conversation with Nazanin Boniadi, present and discuss her new children’s book, Bravo Anjali!
Playing the tuba comes naturally to Anjali. When the boys in her class give her a hard time for being better than them, she messes up on purpose. It’s her dream to win the upcoming music contest, so she will need a lesson in confidence to hit the right notes. This is an important story for to remind children to never dim their light.
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Where: Diesel Bookstore – Online IG Event
Date: Monday the 27th
Time: 12 pm – 1 pm PT
Address: Online (see site)
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The Pen Ten: An Interview With Steven Reigns
FROM: Pen.org
The PEN Ten is PEN America’s weekly interview series. This week, PEN America Los Ángeles speaks with Steven Reigns, author of A Quilt for David (City Lights Publishers, 2021).
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Meet Malibu’s Newest Poet Laureate: Ann Buxie
By Jimy Tallal
FROM: Malibu Times
Ann Buxie has been bringing creative written and spoken words to the Malibu community for more than 25 years through her free Poetry by the Sea and Tales by the Sea programs, so it seemed only fitting that she should be the city’s next poet laureate, serving a two-year term from 2021-23 as Malibu’s “official consultant in poetry.”
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Los Angeles Literature Events: 09/20/21 – 09/26/21
Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Stuart Neville & The House of Ashes via Vroman’s – Online Event
Join us to hear author Stuart Neville, present and discuss his novel, The House of Ashes, a chilling and gorgeous portrait of violence and resilience, told in two voices.
Sara Keane’s husband, Damien, has uprooted them from England and moved them to his native Northern Ireland for a “fresh start” in the wake of her nervous breakdown. Sara, who knows no one in Northern Ireland, is jobless, carless, friendless–all but a prisoner in her own house. When a blood-soaked old woman beats on the door, insisting the house is hers before being bundled back to her care facility, Sara begins to understand the house has a terrible history her husband never intended for her to discover. As the two women form a bond over shared traumas, Sara finds the strength to stand up to her abuser and Mary–silent for decades–is ready to tell her story.
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Where: Vroman’s – Online Event
Date: Monday the 20th
Time: 1 pm
Address: Online (see site)
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/upcoming-events
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Beyond Baroque Announces Amanda Gorman Future Voices Poetry Fund
Venice-based Literary Arts Center to Provide $10,000 in Contest and Scholarship Money to Youth Poets
FROM: Send2Press Newswire
VENICE, Calif., Sept. 14, 2021 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Beyond Baroque, one of the nation’s leading independent Literary Arts Centers, has announced the Amanda Gorman Future Voices Poetry Fund. The fund, named in honor of Beyond Baroque alumna and U.S. Presidential Inaugural Poet Amanda Gorman, will provide $10,000 to young poets of color.
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After COVID Lockdowns, an Essential L.A. Community Reemerges: The Poets
By Jireh Deng
FROM: L.A. Times
The sun was setting into the haze, birds circling above an outdoor stage set up in a private residence at the top of Montecito Heights, as poets read of heartache and survival to an audience seated on hay bales.
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Los Angeles Literature Events: 09/13/21 – 09/19/21
Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Daniel Barban Levin, with Selina Fillinger, & Slonim Woods 9: A Memoir via Book Soup – Online Event
Join us to hear Danile Barban Levin, in conversation with actress and playwright Selina Fillinger, discuss his book, Slonim Woods 9: A Memoir.
In September 2010, a sophomore named Talia Ray asked her roommates at Sarah Lawrence College if her father could stay with them for a while. No one objected,
Talia’s father. Larry Ray, was just released from prison after three years for a custody dispute. He arrived from a communal house called Slonim Woods and stayed for the whole year. Over time, the forceful and intense Ray convinced the young women he alone could help them “achieve clarity,” and eventually they moved to an apartment in Manhattan, beginning years of manipulation and abuse.
Danile Barban Levin was one of the original residents of Slonim Woods 9, and Ray coached him through a difficult break-up, slowly drawing him into his web. After two years of escalating physical, psychological, and sexual abuse, Daniel found the strength to break away.
In April 2019, a New York Magazine story, “The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence,” exposed Ray’s crimes to the world, and in February 2020 he was finally indicted on charges of extortion, sex trafficking, forced labor, and money laundering.
This brave, lyrical and redemptive memoir spans the two years Daniel Barban Levin spent in the grip of a megalomaniac, and reveals how a group of friends were led from a campus into a cult without the world even noticing.
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Where: Book Soup – Online Event
Date: Monday the 13th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online (see site)
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Chola Salvation
Earlier this year Arte Publico published Estella Gonzalez’s debut story collection Chole Salvation. These stories center the lives of Mexican Americans, mostly in East Los Ángeles, by complicating common tropes and conceptions.
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