By Brian Dunlap
On Friday April 16th, Jessica M. Wilson and the L.A. Poet Society debuted the Jasmines & Poetry Festival, livestreamed and socially distanced, to coincide with National Poetry Month.
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Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2021 – Online Fiction Event
Join the 26th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, again offered virtually, from April 17 through April 20! Many literary events will be offered, and tickets are FREE!
LA Times’ Main Stage Event features Richard Thompson, in conversation with RJ Smith, who will present and discuss his memoir, Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975.
Richard Thompson is aninternational and longtime beloved musical legend, known for his brilliant songwriting, his extraordinary guitar playing, and his haunting voice. In this long-awaited memoir the British folk musician takes us back to the 1960s, a period of great change and creativity—both for him and the world at large. Thompson is the author of Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice, 1967-1975.
RJ Smith has been a senior editor at Los Angeles Magazine. a contributor to Blender, a columnist for Village Voice, a staff writer for Spin, and a writer for many journals, His book, The One: The Life and Music of James Brown, was among the New York Times’ “One Hundred Notable Books of 2012.” He is the interviewer for this event.
NOTE: The bookseller for this event is Skylight Bookstore.
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Monday the 19th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Website: https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/project/2021-event-richard-thompson/
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Indre Viskontas & How Music Can Make You Better via CalTech Live: Behind the Book – Online Event
Indre Viskontas combines a passion for music with scientific curiosity. She is a Professor of Sciences and Humanities at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of San Francisco, is a working opera singer, and serves as the Creative Director of Pasadena Opera.
Dr. Viskontas will be interviewed by Maya Jasper White, CalTech’s Director of Chamber music, about her book, How Music Can Make You Better, where she investigates what music is, and how it can change us for the better—from deep in our neurons to across our entire society.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: CalTech’s Behind the Book Series – Online event
Date: Monday the 5th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1096485427429412
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By Brian Dunlap
April Fools 2021, a new open mic debuted in L.Á. on Zoom. Future Now: A Los Angeles Black & Brown Reading & Open Mic, is hosted by the journal Dryland and its two famous faces, Viva Padilla and Nikolai Garcia.
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Monday Funday: April Poetry Month – LAPL Online Kids Event
You can win a free poetry book when you join us for Monday Funday, celebrating National Poetry Month!
We’ll do Mad Libs, solve riddles, and experiment with writing our own poems. Please have your paper and pencils ready.
NOTE: Details, registration, and link at site.
Where: Los Angeles Public Library – Online Event
Date: Monday the 5th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/monday-funday-april
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By Brian Dunlap
2021’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books features a week of virtual literary events. The events range from one-on-one conversations to exciting panels, virtual readings and more.
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Shannon Kenny Carbonell & All Is Not Lost via Chevalier’s Bookstore – Virtual Crowdcast Event
Join author Shannon Kenny Carbonell, in conversation with Nestor Carbonell,to hear her discuss her book, All Is Not Lost.
Shannon Kenny Carbonell’s book, All Is Not Lost, is the story of what happened when one woman set aside a lifelong dream in favor of her kids, only to find herself battling her own ego and unfulfilled ambition. When her family relocated to Oahu, Hawaii during the shooting of the TV show LOST, she found herself as lost as the characters/survivors, and find a way to reconcile her growing feeling of failure and sudden loss of herself, This is her journey.
NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Crowdcast Event
Date: Monday the 29th
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/shannon-kenny-carbonell
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Denise Hamilton & Contributors & Speculative Los Angeles via Beverly Hills Public Library, BHPL – Virtual Event
Editor and author Denise Hamilton, with contributors Francesca Lia Block, Lisa Morton, and Luis J. Rodriguez, will presents selections of their new work from the debut title in a new city-based anthology series, Speculative Los Angeles.
L.A. native Denise Hamilton is the author of seven crime novels, and is editor of Speculative Los Angeles (2021), She is editor of the bestselling Los Angeles Noir 2, and is a former LA Times journalist. Her next novel is a work of speculative fiction set in Los Angeles.
Francesca Lia Block is the author of more than 25 acclaimed and widely translated books, as well as short stories, essays and poems. She lives, writes, and teaches creative writing in Los Angeles.
Lisa Morton is a screenwriter, author of nonfiction books, and prose writer, and a six-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award. She is the author of four novels, and over 150 short stories.
Luis J. Rodriguez has published 16 books of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, children’s books and essays. Best-known for his memoir Always Running, he has also been a print and radio journalist, written plays and movie scripts, and worked as a script consultant on three TV shows. He served as Los Angeles’s official Poet Laureate for two terms.
NOTE: Details and Zoom link instructions available at event link.
Where: BHPL – Online Zoom Event
Date: Monday the 22nd
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.beverlyhills.org/cbhfiles/storage/files/19881747621935143177/SpeculativeLA2.0.pdf
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Women’s History Month: Tessa Boase & Etta Lemon: The Woman Who Saved the Birds via The Ebell of Los Angeles – Virtual Event
Author Tessa Boase will present and discuss her book, Etta Lemon: The Woman Who Saved the Birds, in England as she tells the intriguing story about woman’s love affair with plumes. For fifty years Etta Lemon was the driving force behind the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and where she led in 1889, the Audubon Society would follow author and former investigative journalist Boase will bring to life the untold story of women, birds, hats—and votes.
NOTE: Details at event link
Where: The Ebell – Online Event
Date: Monday the 15th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://facebook.com/events/817217392241006
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Lesley Tellez & Eat Mexico via La Plaza de Cultura y Artes – Virtual Event
Join us on Zoom and FB Live as author Lesley Tellez presents her book, Eat Mexico: Recipes from Mexico City’s Streets, Markets and Fondas, and demonstrates how to make Peneques, a traditional Mexico City recipe that dates to the 19th century.
NOTE: Details available at event link.
Where: La Plaza de Cultura y Artes– Online Event
Date: Monday the 8th
Time: 3 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/129956188996703
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