By Dania Alkhouli
FROM: Moon Tide Press Blog
Believing in fate is a foundational part of my life, so when I was perusing my list of books to indulge in next, something called me to John Brantingham’s The Green of Sunset. For starters, I think it was the title. I hear sunsets get called everything but green, and this had me seeking out the elements of a sunset often unseen, like reading between the rays of a departing sun, and that’s something I needed this week.
Empathy & Heroism Book Club at Central Library, LAPL – Teen’Scape Event
The Empathy &Heroism Book Club for teens will meet to discuss the book, All American Boys, by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely.
Where: Central Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 24th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: 630 W. 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/empathy-heroism-book-club-15
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events 6/24/19 – 6/30/19”
By Kayla King
FROM: Good Reads
Reading Ingrid M. Calderon-Collins’ Ablution, takes readers through the early days of love and beyond. Time passes, as it must. The narrative built within these poems, traverses the relationship between these lovers with a close lens, many titled with just a month and year. It feels too intimate at times, and readers might be compelled to look away, but that’s only a sign to keep reading.
Continue reading “Good Reads Review of Ablution by Ingrid Calderon-Collins”
Your Author Series & Ashlyn Anstee at Cahuenga Branch Library, LAPL – Kids Event
Join us for a discussion with author Ashlyn Anstee as she presents her latest children’s book, Are We There Yet? Ashlyn has done it all: animator, author and illustrator. .She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and three cats.
Where: Cahuenga Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Tuesday the 18th
Time: 3 pm – 4 pm
Address: 4591 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90029
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/your-author-series-starring-ashlyn-anstee
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events 6/18/19 – 6/23/19”
Accomplished local poet, teacher and mentor, Holly Prado, passed away on June 14th in West Hills. Her impact on the community, contributing to workshops, readings, and literary salons, along with her deeply introspective, mystical, and often spiritual poetry, will be remembered. Continue reading Passing of A Los Ángeles Poet Holly Prado
by James Benton
FROM: Los Angeles Review
Like a hurricane of images, or a tsunami of grief, Sweeny’s lines strain against a background of stability and coherence that barely holds together. The book is an elegy not only because the title tells us so, but because it performs its elegiac ritual without the filter of conventional form or syntactical coherence. If grief is inchoate, the poet asks, what language is sufficient to the duty it is called upon to perform? The answer is a language suddenly released from its duties to inform or to persuade—functions of containment, framing, and interpretation—a non-syntax left to its singular capacity to conjure the ineffable, to bring it into being.
Continue reading “REVIEW: LITTLE MILLION DOORS: AN ELEGY BY CHAD SWEENEY”
Summer Author Series & Aditi Khorana at Canoga Park Branch Library, LAPL – Teens Event
Join us for a discussion with author Aditi Khorana as she presents her latest novel, Library of Fates. Aditi’s international upbringing included stays in India, Denmark, and New England. She has been a journalist for ABC News, CNN, and PBS, and is currently serving as a marketing consultant for the entertainment industry. In her spare time she enjoys the architecture of Los Angeles and the great outdoors.
Where: Canoga Park Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 10th
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: 20939 Sherman Way, Canoga Park, CA 91303
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/your-author-series-starring-aditi-khorana
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events 6/10/19 – 6/16/19”
By Daniel A. Olivas
FROM: Labloga.com
Nineteen years ago, a small independent press based in Pennsylvania—sadly now defunct—published my first book, a novella titled The Courtship of María Rivera Peña(Silver Lake Publishing). The story is loosely based on the migration of my paternal grandparents from Mexico to Los Angeles in the 1920s and follows the courtship, marriage, and family life of the cook Beto and the beautiful waitress María. Three years later, a longer, second edition was published under the same name but with a slightly different cover design. I am now exploring with a publisher whether we can publish a 20th anniversary edition that would include a scholarly introduction.
Continue reading “A few thoughts on adapting “The Courtship of María Rivera Peña” for the screen”
A is for ACTION: A Social Justice Book Club for Kids at Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL – Kids Event
Literature can transform the way we look at the world, deepening our understanding of even the most complex issues of today.
Check out the book of the month from the library, read it, then come join us for the conversation and crafts! Children ages 5+ and their families are welcome.
Our book for June is: El deafo, by Cece Bell. Library copies are available to borrow at the Information Desk.
Where: Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 3rd
Time: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Address: 5027 Caspar Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90041
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/action-social-justice-book-club-kids
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events 6/03/19 – 6/09/19”
By Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo
FROM: LARB
SEVENTEEN AND HIGH, Nikki Darling swaggers down the middle of Garvey Boulevard, a busy thoroughfare in the San Gabriel Valley, as cars swerve around her: “‘Three Days’ by Jane’s Addiction is playing on my Walkman and I feel like I’m in a movie, like I’m an assassin.” She stands in the street with a cigarette hanging from her lips, with “someplace to be or maybe nowhere to go.” She taunts the cars as they pass: “Fly around me, motherfuckers! Fly around me like I’m not even here!”
Continue reading “Invisible No More: How “Fade Into You” Reflects the L.A. Chicanx Experience”
