By Lacey Womack
FROM: The Travel
There are stores dedicated to just about everything, all around the world. Whether you’re shopping for jewelry, shoes, or even books, there are stores where you can browse and buy whatever it is that you’re looking for.
Kiese Laymon & “What’s Good: Reckoning with the Horror” at The Athanaeum, Claremont McKenna College
Author and comparative literature scholar Kiese Laymon will discuss “What’s Good: Reckoning with the Horror of One of Our Most Overused Words” and will also discuss and sign his book, Heavy.
The author and his presentation will explore the unspoken traumas and joys embedded in the word “good” in his home, region, and in the nation.
Where: The Athanaeum, Claremont McKenna College
Date: Monday the 4th
Time: 5:30 pm
Address: 385 E. 8th St., Claremont, CA 91711
Website: https://www.clarmeontmckenna.edu/mmca
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events 11/04/19 – 11/10/19”
By Michael Jaime-Becerra
FROM: Los Angeles Times
When I was a boy, we didn’t celebrate Halloween. I recall trick-or-treating once, the year I was 5, my mother taking my sister and me to our nana’s house in South El Monte, me in a cowboy costume, my caramel-colored corduroy vest and chaps fresh from my mother’s sewing machine, my sister’s ladybug costume too. We approached a few houses to collect whatever candy we could, and aside from a future Halloween party or two and our elementary school’s costume parade, that was it.
Poetry Salon Fall Class – Fullerton
The Poetry Salon is a fun, nurturing environment where advanced writers share their work and develop their craft. This quarterly 8-week workshop deepens your craft and writing practice, so you can hone your work into powerful written pieces.
NOTE: This is a ticketed event so check further details at website.
Where: Fullerton Location TBA
Date: Thursday the 31st
Time: 11 am – 2 pm
Address: Fullerton Area Location TBA, Fullerton, CA
Website: https://facebook.com/events/457252281665295
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events 10/31/19 – 11/03/19”
By Denise Alicea
FROM: The Pen & Muse
Set against two distinct epochs in the history of Pasadena, California, Arroyo tells the parallel stories of a young man and his dog in 1913 and 1993. In both lives, they are drawn to the landmark Colorado Street Bridge, or “Suicide Bridge,” as the locals call it, which suffered a lethal collapse during construction but still opened to fanfare in the early twentieth century automobile age. When the refurbished structure commemorates its 80th birthday, one of the planet’s best known small towns is virtually unrecognizable from its romanticized, and somewhat invented, past.
Continue reading “Author Interview With Author of Arroyo, Chip Jacobs!”
By Jeffery Fleishman
FROM: Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles is a madman’s prayer wrapped inside a murderous dream.
It’s homeless on sidewalks and hustlers in the hills. It’s laborers and housekeepers, and billboards of lust, dystopia, apes, robots, Chewbaccas, Kim and Kanye, and Lady Gaga’s newest thing. It’s clear skies, no mosquitoes and laser-sculpted people with money, hedgerows and sins. A crime writer can make of it what he or she wants, like “Westworld” or a lover who gives you a kiss and a key, and one day changes the locks.
Continue reading “Literary History: Why L.A. Is The Perpetual Dark Heart of Crime Writing”
By Janet Kinosian
FROM: Los Angeles Times
The strained Los Angeles landscape in Steph Cha’s crime thriller “Your House Will Pay” is immediately recognizable to anyone who lived in the city during the traumatic period surrounding the 1992 riots.
Continue reading “Review: Thriller ‘Your House Will Pay’ Confronts the Legacies of L.A. Riots”
Michael Connelly & The Night Fire at L.A. Times Book Club, Ricardo Montalban Theatre
The Los Angeles Times Book Club welcomes bestselling author Michael Connelly, who will present and sign his new book, The Night Fire, in which Los Angeles Detectives Harry Bosch and Renee Ballard team up on an unsolved case that obsessed Bosch’s longtime mentor.
Connelly is also the executive producer of Bosch, the Amazon series based on the Harry Bosch book series, which is now filming season 6. Prior to his successful writing and publishing career, he was a journalist and reported for the L.A Times.
NOTE: This is a ticketed event so check website for details.
Where: Ricardo Montalban Theatre (with L.A. Times Book Club)
Date: Monday the 21st
Time: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 1615 Vine St., Los Angeles, CA 90028
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1602268483231442
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events 10/21/19 – 10/27/19”
By Dorany Pineda
From: Los Angeles Times
Kate Braverman a poet, novelist and short-story writer whose work was fueled by a sprawling Los Angeles, has died. She was 70.
Deepak Chopra & Meta-Human at El Segundo Performing Arts Center (with Pages Bookstore)
Join us for an evening with bestselling author Deepak Chopra, who will present and sign his new book, Meta-Human: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential, which addresses how to venture beyond daily living and experience heightened states of awareness. He unlocks the secrets to moving beyond our present limitations to access a field of infinite possibilities. To do this, we must become “metahuman.”
NOTE: This is a ticketed event so check website for details.
Where: El Segundo Performing Arts Center (with Pages bookstore)
Date: Monday the 14th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 640 Main St., El Segundo, CA 90245
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/evening-deepak-chopra
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