2nd Annual Culver City Book Fair
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
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Mariana Enriquez, Michael Connelly, S.A. Cosby Among LA Times Book Prize Finalists
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.
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Segerstrom Welcomes Natalie Graham as VP of Community Engagement
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
Chapter House Is Turning A New Page For Indie Book Publishing
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.
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Flower Song Press in Southern California
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.
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New ‘Citric Acid’ quarterly journal gives O.C. some literary tart
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.
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Santa Ana’s LibroMobile Arts Cooperative is Upgrading and Making Moves
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.
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traci kato-kiriyama’s Book Release
By Brian Dunlap
One of the last literary events of the year occurred Saturday at the Rissho Kosei-Kai Buddhist church in Boyle Heights. It was the release party for traci kato-kiriyama’s new book of poetry, micro essays and notes to self, Navigating With(out) Instruments. The event was hosted by the master mc himself, Mike Sonksen. This Buddhist church was where Sonksen married his wife Emi.
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A Place Built by Poets for Poets
“South Central Los Angeles has long had a vibrant poetry” and now “a dedicated venue to write, read, and listen to the work of poets” opened this past summer. Continue reading A Place Built by Poets for Poets
New Yorkers scoffed. 10 Years Later, the Los Angeles Review of Books is a Cultural Force
By Dorany Pineda
FROM: Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Review of books was conceived more than a decade ago during a dark period for the print literary ecosystem.
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