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.
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.
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.
By Jen Hitchcock
NOTE: The following was posted to Book Show’s Facebook page today, October 1, 2019 by the owner Jen Hitchcock.
After over five years in Highland Park, I am extremely sad to announce that Book Show will be closing our store here at the end of 2019.
Our landlord decided to double our already high rent and is forcing us out. Therefore Book Show will be looking for a new space starting in 2020.
Continue reading “Sad News For Highland Park Bookstore Book Show”
Local poet and South Central native, Nikolai Garcia, recently released his first collection of poetry, the chapbook “Nuclear Shadoews of Palm Trees.” The release party was held at Book Show in Highland Park. Continue reading South Central L.A. Poet, Nikolai Garcia, Releases His Debut Chapbook
By Brian Dunlap
Last Saturday, the first annual Small Press Book Festival took place at the Wende Museum of the Cold War, in Culver City. It was a day to celebrate, promote and connect with Los Ángeles’ independent publishing community. Founded by Mark Lipman, poet and publisher of local independent press Vagabond, the Festival’s “goal is to promote and foster communication and the diversity of voices through literature and the arts as an integral part of the on-going work of building” literary community and community as a whole.
Continue reading “Building Literary Community at the Small Press Book Festival”
By Brian Dunlap
MORIA, the literary journal at Woodbury University in Burbank, California, is open for submissions for their Fall issue until October 1, 2019.
Continue reading “Local Literary Journal Open For Submissions”
By Liset Márquez
FROM: Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Applications are being accepted for the inaugural city of Pomona poet laureate.
Continue reading “Pomona On The Lookout For Its First Poet Laureate”
By CNN Opion
FROM: CNN.com
El Paso. Dayton. Odessa. Pittsburgh. Parkland. Santa Fe. Newtown.
Policymakers debate arming teachers. Parents buy bulletproof backpacks. So many adult Americans fret over a generation – more than a generation, before all is said and done – of students raised to know the run-hide-fight of active shooter drills.
Continue reading “The Children of ‘Generation Lockdown’ Speak”
Viramontes’ passion for bringing erased communities to the forefront of literature and history has materialized into several acclaimed literary works.
By Jackie Swift
FROM: research.cornell.edu
Helena María Viramontes, English, brings people and places erased from history to life again. For years, she has focused her lens on the Latino experience in the United States, writing award-winning fiction that draws from her own heritage as a Chicana from Los Angeles. In her latest novel-in-progress, The Cemetery Boys, she explores the experiences of three generations of East Los Angelenos mired in three different wars. During this exploration, she highlights the mix of ethnicities and marginalized communities that flourished and then faded away in the California of the early-to-mid twentieth century.
Los Angeles Literature 