Category: Los Angeles Literary Events

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How Pico Iyer found L.A.’s Beating Heart at the L.A. Times Festival of Books

By PICO IYER
FROM: The L.A. Times

Los Angeles is the city without a heart, we used to hear when I was growing up in England, few of us having come within 5,000 miles of California. Seventy-eight school districts in search of a center, a desert car culture in which every last soul is locked inside her own four doors, a teenage wasteland: The clichés came streaming in on us as we stood in the rain at bus stops in chilly Oxford, on our way to another unheated basement.

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Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 10/12/20 – 10/18/20

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Cover to Cover Reading Club for Kids, from October 5th – November 13th – Kids Event        

Stop by the Orange Public Library & History Center to sign up for the In-N-Out Cover to Cover Reading Club, which will run until November 13th. Kids ages 4-12 are eligible to participate. For every five books read, each child will receive a Cover to Cover Achievement certificate redeemable for one hamburger, cheeseburger, or gilled cheese. Earn up to three certificates per child, while supplies last.

NOTE: Details available at website link.

Where: Orange Public Library & History Center – Zoom Online Event     

Date: Monday the 12th                             

Time: 10 am – 7 pm                          

Address: 407 E. Chapman Ave., Orange, CA          

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2399363487036106

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Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 10/05/20 – 10/11/20

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS Nick Hornby & Just Like You via Literary Affairs’ Books & Bathrobes – Zoom Online Event            Bestselling author Nick Hornby will discuss his novel Just Like You in a book club-style conversation with Julie Robinson in a Zoom online event. This novel is a twenty-first century love story about what happens when the person who makes you … Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 10/05/20 – 10/11/20

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Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 9/21/20 – 9/27/20

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Speaker Series with Alison Rose Jefferson & Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During the Jim Crow Era via The Ebell of Los Angeles – Online Event 

The Ebell hosts author and speaker Alison Rose Jefferson, who will share her research and findings contained in her book, Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era. Our local public places and leisure sites hold a central place in the ongoing freedom rights struggle, and the author describes these cases and efforts in detail.         

Where: The Ebell Speaker Series – Online (see site)                              

Date: Monday the 21st                                         

Time: 12pm – 1 pm                     

Address: Online event

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/269045181101014

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Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 9/14/20 – 9/20/20

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

UNMUTE! is a month-long generative workshop for writers at all levels. Each week, participants will meet LIVE with poet and writer Brendan Constantine for ninety minutes, to discuss and explore approaches to poetry and discover ways to practice perpetual astonishment. Each class will end with at least one “no pressure” assignment, designed to liberate your own style. Dates of workshop: Sept. 14th, 21st, 28th, and Oct, 5th.

NOTE: See course details and costs at: https://awfulgoodwriters.com/courses/brendan-constantine-unmute/?fbclid=IwAR3DL0iNNdBJCoFn5KrMZw6_L3ua3DBb-NuEOn9miK12vaX1bD0BC-np7DE

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Los Angeles Literature Events: 9/07/20 – 9/13/20

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

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Philosophy Discussion Group & Critique of Pure Reason via Arroyo Seco Regional Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event

Join Arroyo Seco Regional Branch Library’s Zoom link as we continue our discussion of Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Newcomers are welcome.

NOTE: Email ayosco@lapl.org for participation details. Confirm at site due to holiday.

Where: Arroyo Seco Branch Library, LAPL – Online event  

Date: Monday the 7th                                  

Time: 6:30 pm

Address: Online event (see site)  

Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/philosophy-discussion-group-1 

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Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 8/31/20 – 9/06/20

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

 

download (2)Bilingual Storytime via Robert Louis Stevenson Branch Library, LAPL Instagram Online – Kids Event

Join the Robert Louis Stevenson Branch Library’s Instagram online link for the Bilingual Storytime event, to enjoy stories, rhymes and songs in Spanish and English.

Where: Robert Louis Stevenson Branch Library, LAPL Zoom online

Date: Monday the 31st

Time: 3 pm                                   

Address: Online event (see site)

Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/bilingual-storytimela-hora-de-cuentos-bilingüe

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Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 8/24/20 – 8/30/20

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

116742783_2715181558712186_4661525944619345215_nTeens Speak Up Against Injustice: The Assignment via American Jewish University Online Event

Join us on Zoom to heat how a chance meeting in a bookstore propelled author Liza Wiemer to write her book, The Assignment, which explores how two teens found the courage to speak up against antisemitism and hatred.

NOTE: See site for details and ticket information.

Where: American Jewish University – Online event

Date: Monday the 24th

Time: 4 pm – 4:45 pm

Address: Online event (see site)

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/398268867839936

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