Los Angeles Literature Events 3/25/19 –3/31/19
Matt de la Pena & Superman: Dawnbreaker at Vroman’s Bookstore – YA Event
Join us to welcome author Matt de la Pena to present and sign his new DC Icons book for young readers, Superman: Dawnbreaker (DC Icons Series).
When the dawn breaks, a hero rises. Clark Kent has always been faster, stronger, better than everyone around him. But he wasn’t raised to show off, and drawing attention to himself can be dangerous. Plus, it’s not like he’s earned his powers… yet. Lately it’s been difficult to keep his heroics in the shadows, and before he can save the world, he must find a way to save Smallville.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Monday the 25th
Time: 6:30 pm – 8 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, California 91101
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/matt-de-la-peña-discusses-and-signs-superman-dawnbreaker
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Documenting literary Los Angeles is my lifelong project. It started early in my childhood. I grew up going to bookstores across Los Angeles. From the early 1980s, I remember my dad driving us to the Bodhi Tree on Melrose. I remember going to Acres of Books in Long Beach and many other Used Bookstores now long gone. Most of them have been gone so long that I cannot even remember their names. (I still go to the Iliad in North Hollywood.)
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The Free Black Women’s Library has arrived in Los Ángeles. They are the L.A. chapter of The Free Black Women’s Library, founded in Brooklyn in 2015 by Ola Ronke Akinmowo. The aim of this library is to provide “a free, feminist pop-up library and book swap with Black women writers at the center,” as their mission states.
Moon Tide Press Reading Event at Chevalier’s Bookstore 
Lucy Jane Bledso
Pasadena Native Naomi Hirahara and L.A. native Walter Mosley have both been nominated for a 2019 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original, Hiroshima Boy, and Best Novel, Down The River Unto The Sea, respectively. For Hirahara it’s her second Edgar Award nomination, her first being for Snakeskin Shamisen, which won the 2007 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original. Mosely has been nominated twice before for Best Novel, in 1993 for White Butterfly and in 2013 for All I did Was Shoot My Man and was nominated for Best First Novel in 1991 for Devil in a Blue Dress.
An Evening with Carl Phillips at Claremont McKenna College
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