Los Angeles Literature Events 1/9/17 –1/15/17
Cynthia Garrrett at Book Soup
Join us as Cynthia Garrett discusses and signs Prodigal Daughter: A Journey Home to Identity. In this candid , raw and challenging look at how identity gets lost in today’s modern world, TV personality and evangelist Cynthia Garrett shares an incredible, red-carpeted journey through her life, and we meet a faith that is inclusive and unifying, with love triumphing over hate.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Monday the 9th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
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at Sidewalk Café, Pasadena
In early 2017, Mayor Eric Garcetti and the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) will be announcing our city’s next official Poet Laureate. Dating back over a century, there is an illustrious poetic tradition in Los Angeles, which the Poet Laureate is expected to propagate.
Zine-Making Workshops at Central Library
Angel City Review, a journal dedicated to the literary voices of Los Angeles, has just released its 4th issue. This issue of Angel City Review contextualizes writing in terms of the difficult times we live in. In the “Forward” written by Lead Editor John Venegas, writing hones in on the job of “poets and writers [who] continue to ask difficult questions, respond to those questions, keep alive the humanity that often seems lost, and retain hope.” In these times of Trump, where one group of people hate another group of people they do not even know or have never met, what can writing do when it asks and confronts difficult questions? It allows readers “to engage with and experience what it is like to live a life that is not your own.” In other words, writing allows the reader to step in someone else’s shoes.
Anne Rice at Barnes & Nobel Bookstore
Southern California author Matt Coyle discusses and signs his new book, Dark Fissures. Private investigator Rick Cahill fears the next knock on his door will be a cop holding a warrant for his arrest. For murder. La Jolla Chief of Police Tony Moretti is convinced Rick killed a missing person. Although no body has been found, all the evidence points to Rick
The launch of Angels Flight (not the funicular) is the grand blastoff of an ambitious literary salon series to be held at the venerable, quintessentially downtown Clifton’s Cafeteria. The night focuses on writings about Los Angeles history and how L.A. provokes change in our lives. Author and USC English professor Dana Johnson (Elsewhere, California: A Novel) and screenwriter-novelist David Kukoff (Children of the Canyon and the forthcoming Los Angeles in the 1970s: Weird Scenes in the Goldmine) read from their work, followed by a Q&A. Attention writers: You can share your own writing, completed and in-progress, on this ever-fascinating subject. Themed beverages and dining available.
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