Handprints On Walk of Fame. Jesus Treviño Visits Stanford Raza. Season Season.

by Michael Sedano

From: Labloga.com

Luis J. Rodríguez

Summers from Junior High through the year I left home for college, I laid cement slabs for patios, pool edges, walkways, and the like, under tutelage of my Dad.

We checked the book he got in CCC before the war for the mix. Shovel 3-3-1sand, gravel, cement into the wheelbarrow, eyeball the water and mix to the right consistency. Haul the mezcla to the hole and pour. Work the surface with a two-by-four then trowels. A well-laid slab glistening against a setting sun is about as satisfying a sight as a worker can enjoy.

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Best Independant Bookstore Eso Won Books

by Tanja M. Laden From: L.A. Weekly Originally a planned community built in the 1920s, Leimert Park has since become the epicenter of African-American culture in Los Angeles. It’s also home to a beloved independent bookstore that’s been around since the late 1980s, owned and operated by James Fugate and Thomas Hamilton. Eso Won Bookstore occupied four other locations before landing in Leimert Park in 2006; by all … Continue reading Best Independant Bookstore Eso Won Books

L.A. Poet Vickie Vértiz in New York Times Magazine

IMG_5607Congratulations goes out to Los Ángeles poet Vickie Vértiz. Her poem “Already My Lips Were Luminous” has been published in the New York Times Magazine. The poem opens her new collection of poems Palm Frond With Its Throat Cut and sets the entire collection in motion. As Vickie Vértiz said in an Instagram post: “Aquí nomas, my poem from Palm Frond in the @tmagazine. Thank you so, so much Terrance Hayes, and to @MatthewZapruder for the encouragement.”

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BEST NEW BOOKSTORE Other Books, Comics and Zines

By Jason McGahan From: LA Weekly Other Books, Comics and Zines offers an exquisitely curated selection of new and used books with an anarcho-queer-feminist–third world–radical-indigenist edge. The sparely decorated, spacious store, sandwiched unassumingly between an El Pollo Loco and a Mexican craft-leather shop, offers bare cement floors, bare white walls, bare light bulbs and unobtrusive, comfortable chairs and sofas for reading. Books are cerebral up front, transgressive … Continue reading BEST NEW BOOKSTORE Other Books, Comics and Zines

Los Angeles Literature Events 10/30/17 –11/05/17

Steven J. Ross at Chevalier’s Bookstore

downloadPlease join us to hear Steven J. Ross, son of Holocaust survivors, author and professor of history at USC, discussing and signing his new book, Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America, in conversation with the host and producer of “Start Making Sense,” The Nation’s weekly podcast Jon Wiener (How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey Across America). The book examines how the Nazis plotted to sabotage the nation’s military installations, propaganda and communications along the Pacific Coast

Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore

Date: Monday the 30th

Time: 7 pm

Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004

Website:    https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/hitler-in-la

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New Writers Retreat: The Joshua Tree Experiential Arts and Writing Retreat

Los Angeles poet Ariel Fintushel has founded the The Joshua Tree Experiential ARTS and WRITING Retreat. It kicks off this year. Get out of LA for a 3-day arts and writing retreat featuring bonfire readings by desert dwellers Ruth Nolan and L.I. Henley. Curated workshops like Altered States and Psycho-Spiritual Legacies of the Desert and High Noon Ceremony lead participants through the natural landscape to … Continue reading New Writers Retreat: The Joshua Tree Experiential Arts and Writing Retreat

Voices From Leimert Park Redux: Celebrating The Diverse Voices of Los Angeles

From: EUR/Electronic Urban Report

Elias-Wondimu-Elana-M1Los Angeles – Several hundred people gathering in Leimert Park Village in front of the iconic Vision Theater, Saturday, October 14, 2017.

The diverse crowd gathered on this beautiful day in Southern California to celebrate the first book launch from TSEHAI’s imprint, the Harriet Tubman Press: Voices from Leimert Park Redux: a Los Angeles Poetry Anthology.

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