Another busy week full of literary events: readings, open mics, book clubs and workshops and more. Local writers reading this week include: Monique Mitchell, Gary Phillips, Michelle Brittan Rosado, Nikki Darling, Tananarive Due, Thelma T. Reyna, David St. John, among others. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events 2/04/19 –2/10/19
Wally Rudoplph & Christine Yoo at Annenberg Beach House
Join us for Writer-in-Residence Wally Rudolph’s first of three public conversations at the Annenberg Community Beach House. In Creating Art in Times of Strife, Rudolph presents a series of one-on-one conversations with socially conscious artist across disciplines, informing how current political polarization and environmental crisis affect and inform each artist’s process and practice.
Christine Yoo’s forthcoming documentary, 26.2 to Life, chronicles a year in the life of San Quentin’s 1000 Mile Club, a prison running group training for an annual marathon inside the prison’s crowded lower yard: 105 laps to complete 26.2 miles. Wally and Christine discuss how the making of the film has affected her view of the prison industrial complex and the human cost of our justice system
NOTE: Tickets for this free event are available at Eventbrite link.
Where: Annenberg Beach House, Pacific Coast Hwy. at Beach House Way
Date: Tuesday the 29th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 415 Pacific Coast Hwy., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events 1/28/19 –2/03/19”
By Brian Dunlap
A bustling York Blvd., with mouth-watering smells wafting in the air from food trucks parked curbside. Near the corner of York and Avenue 50 is Pop-Hop Books, one of L.A.’s many independent bookstores.
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Main Library Book Group & Snow Flower and the Secret Fan at Santa Monica Library, SMPL
Join our long-running book discussion group, which is always welcoming new members, and alternates between fiction and nonfiction on a month-to-month basis. Our January selection is Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See.
Where: Community Meeting Room, 2nd Floor, Santa Monica Main Library, SMPL
Date: Monday the 14th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90401
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=28509
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Winter Author Series & YA Author Aditi Khorana at Memorial Branch Library, LAPL – Teen Event
Join our Winter Author Series to hear YA author Aditi Khorana discuss her latest novel, The Library of Fates, a romantic coming-of-age fantasy tale steeped in Indian folklore. All interested teens (6th – 12th graders) are welcome, and refreshments are provided. Lucky winners will receive a free copy of her book.
Where: Memorial Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 7th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: 4625 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90019
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/winter-author-series-ya-author-aditi-khorana
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Santa Monica Public Library
Join us at our Main Library Book Group to discuss the book, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, by Jonathan Haidt. This event is for adults and seniors.
Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In this book, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding.
Where: Santa Monica Main Library, 2nd Floor
Date: Monday the 17th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90401
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=26229
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Workshop: Writing From Experience at 1888 Center for the Arts
Please join us for the Creative Writing Workshop: Writing From Experience, which will give participants tips on how to write novels loosely based on their own experience, and turn real life events into compelling fictional narratives.
Helene is an Orange County novelist and the author of Diary of a 99%-er, and its sequel Back in OC: Almost Homeless.
NOTE: This workshop costs $30, and tickets can be purchased at website.
Where: 1888 Center for the Arts
Date: Monday the 10th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: 115 N. Orange St., Orange, CA 92866
Website: http://1888.center/calendar/workshop-writing-from-experience/
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by Michael Sedano
From: La Bloga
Living room floricantos fill a home with gente and arte for a few memorable hours, the perfect way to celebrate friends, community, culture, a whole lot of good things. For liz gonzález, Saturday afternoon celebrated the publication of her recent collection, Dancing in the Santa Ana Winds: Poems y Cuentos New and Selected.
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Joshua Rivkin & Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly at Book Soup
Join us to hear Joshua Rivkin present his book, Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly. Upon first seeing Twombly’s remarkable room-size paintings, the author became obsessed with this mysterious artist and has now reconstructed his life based upon years of archival research and interviews. From his time at legendary Black Mountain College, to his canonization in a 1994 MoMA retrospective, this book presents a more personal and searching type of biography, and brings to life the story of a more complex artist than we’ve known.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Monday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/joshua-rivkin-discusses-and-signs-chalk-art-and-erasure-cy-twombly
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Opera Talk at Buena Vista Branch, Burbank Public Library
Please join us for an Opera Talk with members of LA Opera’s Community Engagement Program, and featuring Larry Verdugo discussing the opera Hansel & Gretel.
Where: Buena Vista Branch, Burbank Public Library
Date: Monday the 26th
Time: 7 pm – 8 pm
Address: 300 N. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91505
Website: http://www.burbank.lib.ca.us/events/opera-talk-2
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events 11/26/18 –12/02/18”
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