The Literary and Arts space founded and run by Viva Padila, Re/Arte, is looking to reopen after a two-month hiatus and is asking for the community’s help. Continue reading Re-opening of Re/Arte Centro Literario in Boyle Heights
“Now jobless, and finally in possession of a car after years of calling up rideshares and riding the bus), I decided it was time to bring the hustle I had brought towards building up my resume and touring across the country towards hustling books.” Continue reading How This Chicano Poet From Diamond Bar Got Into 50 Bookstores Without A Major Publisher
Burbank native Arthur Kayzakian says about his forthcoming book “The Book of Redacted Paintings”: “It is a combination of wishing I could paint the pieces I see in my head and the feeling of something torn out from within me due to a traumatic upbringing.” Continue reading Inaugural Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series Selection
Last Saturday the 2nd Annual Culver City Book Festival took place at the Wende Museum of the Cold War. Here is what happened. Continue reading 2nd Annual Culver City Book Fair
By Dorany Pineda
FROM: Los Angeles Times
The finalists for the 42nd Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced today, with Claire Vaye Watkins, Joy Williams, Michael Connelly and Martín Espada among the nominees for the annual literary awards.
Continue reading “Mariana Enriquez, Michael Connelly, S.A. Cosby Among LA Times Book Prize Finalists”
Poet and Cal State Fullerton Professor Natalie Graham, is the new VP of Community Engagement for the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Orange County. Continue reading Segerstrom Welcomes Natalie Graham as VP of Community Engagement
The merger of indie presses Black Ocean and Not a Cult into a new publishing group offers new path for competitive small-press publishing in the digital era.
By Jesse Damiani
FROM: Forbs
As debates about the metaverse rage on, a new development in publishing is proving that digital transformation is core to the future of one of the most legacy media formats in existence: books.
Continue reading “Chapter House Is Turning A New Page For Indie Book Publishing”
By Brian Dunlap
Flower Song Press has infiltrated Southern California. It began with publishing El Sereno native Matt Sedillo, in late 2018. His poetry collection Mowing Leaves of Grass, was a critical success, critiquing the American history we’re taught in school to render it in full, speaking truth to the struggle, tragedy, anger, joy, despair, possibility and faith in the struggles of working class people, specifically Chicanx, to overcome the forces of capitalism and racism that keep them marginalized.
Continue reading “Flower Song Press in Southern California”
By Gabriel San Román
FROM: TimesOC
For naysayers, Orange County’s literary scene is as barren as the citrus orchards that once dominated its landscape but have long since been bulldozed to make way for suburban blandness. O.C. supposedly traded its tart to be trite.
Continue reading “New ‘Citric Acid’ quarterly journal gives O.C. some literary tart”
By Sarah Mosqueda
FROM: L.A. Times
LibroMobile Arts Cooperative, a literary arts co-op and bookstore in Santa Ana, has existed in many places since it opened in 2016.
Continue reading “Santa Ana’s LibroMobile Arts Cooperative is Upgrading and Making Moves”
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