Los Angeles Literature Events 3/20/17 –3/26/17
The Idiot at ALOUD Reading Series, Central Library
Join us to hear author and New Yorker staff writer
, in conversation with author Steve Hely, read from and discuss her delightfully refreshing coming-of-age story, The Idiot. Batuman is also the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, and this debut novel begins in 1995, when email is new and Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. The author discusses this off-kilter journey into adulthood and her recent reporting from Turkey with Steve Hely, comedic author, TV writer and co-host of the podcast The Great Debates.
FREE / Reservations recommended.
The reading and Q&A starts at 7:15 pm; stand-by seating at 7 pm.
Where: Mark Taper Auditorium, Central Library
Date: Monday the 20th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 630 W. 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/the-idiot-a-novel/
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LAMBDA LIT FEST Los Angeles to be held at Various Locations, March 6-12, All Week (see below)
POC, co-founded by Lauryn Pendergrass and Peter Woods. This evening Liz Kay will read and discuss her new novel Monsters: A Love Story. Ashaki Jackson and Jen Hofer will be guest readers, and Cave Canem Fellow F. Douglas Brown hosts.
