New Play Reading Festival at Boston Court Theatre

Boston Court’s 13^th Annual New Play Reading Festival presents exciting new works in progress, a wide variety of genres, with an emphasis on works which are theatrically and visually arresting, and textually rich. Tickets are FREE and reservations are strongly recommended.

Join artistic directors Jessica Kubzansky & Michael Michetti, and literary manager Emilie Beck for a preview and discussion about this year’s plays.

Where: Boston Court

Date: Monday the 17^th

Time: 7:30 pm

Address: 70 North Mentor Ave., Pasadena, CA 91106

Website:   http://www.bostoncourt.com/events/343/new-play-reading-festival-preview

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by Olivia Duenas

From: 7500 Magazine

With lavender locks as vibrant as her garden, poet Rocio Carlos welcomes me into her home. Lining the shelves are treasures like tiny canvases, musical instruments and fish statues. Entering from the front of her house, I made my way to her lush garden where she tells me how much she loves gardening. This native Los Angeleno infuses Spanish into her poetry and blends eclectic language into urban settings. Her poem, Sixth Street or some Dantean reference, which is about East L.A bridges, begins:

There are instructions:
line up east and move toward the river,
suspension,
how a thing floats, how bruised feet walk,
where steam rises from the water…

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Drew Magary and The Hike at Pages Bookstore

Full of adventure, agony, hilarity and heartbreak, Drew Magary’s novel, The Hike, is a wild, thrilling fantasy saga that chronicles one man’s epic life-or-death quest to return to his family after getting lost on a wooded path that leads him into an alternate, dreamlike world. Join us to hear the author present, discuss and sign his work

We appreciate when you please RSVP at website.

Where: Pages Bookstore

Date: Monday the 10^th

Time: 7 pm

Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266

Website:   http://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/drew-magary-author-event

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by STAFF REPORTS

From: Pasadena Now

Pasadena non-profit Light Bringer Project is about to launches the fifth issue of its online literary journal created by local authors as a resource for engaging and inspiring underserved public school students with relatable stories that are often missing in textbooks.

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by Brian Dunlap

It’s now summer. It’s now July. The first of 2017 is behind us. The first of the year in the Los Angeles literary community is now only memories. Now we begin July with #90x90LA, 90 consecutive days of literary programming through out L.A., brought to the city by Chiwan and Judith Oden Choi and the entire Writ Large Press Family.

So far, it’s been a busy year in Los Angeles Literature and it’s not about to let up.

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by Agatha French

From: LA Times

Starting July 5 and running until Oct. 1, downtown’s Writ Large Press will present 90 events in 90 days, a marathon of literary happenings that remains in flux. While the July schedule is posted, August and September events are still taking shape, but this ambitious undertaking is also fluid in another way: Like any live, collaborative effort, it will take on a life of its own as determined by its artists and participants, an exciting variable that its organizers embrace.

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Adult Writing Workshop at Robertson Branch Library

Writing a book and looking for feedback? Need deadlines to help you reach your writing goals? Then this is the group for you!

Each meeting, participants should bring 5-10 double-spaced pages of writing to share with the group. Depending of the size of the group, they will have 1025 minutes to share and receive feedback.

Please call the library’s information desk to RSVP.

Where: Robertson Branch Library, LAPL

Date: Monday the 3^rd

Time: 11 am – 12:30 pm

Address: 1719 S. Robertson Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035

Website:   http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/eventsrobertson-branch-writers-group /

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Teen Reading by Design Summer Program at Exposition Park-Dr. Mary Bethune Regional Library–Teen Event

Join us for a book discussion of Eleanor and Park, by Rainbow Rowell, at the first meeting of our book club and summer reading challenge titled Teen Read, Rant & Rave. Copies of the book are available to borrow at the Information Desk.

Recommended for teens in grades 9-12.

Where: Exposition Park – Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Regional Library, LAPL

Date: Monday the 26^th

Time: 2 pm – 3 pm

Address: 3900 S. Western Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90062

Website:   http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/reading-design-summer-reading-challenge-teen-read-r

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By Brian Dunlap

Good news from Los Angeles writer Natasha Deón. The following is from her Facebook page. A big congratulations goes out to Mrs. Deón and all her hard work:

“Honored to receive the 2017 Best Debut Novel Prize by the American Library Association, Black Caucus. Thank you librarians from around the nation! ❤️ And I can’t wait to meet them in Atlanta this summer for the ceremony. If you’re at the @americanlibraryassociation conference today, @counterpointpress is giving away a few copies of GRACE to celebrate in Booth 3421. Yay! Get one!”

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by Brian Dunlap Update on #90x90LA. Today Chiwan Choi, the lead organizer of #90x90LA, posted the following on his Facebook page: “Presenting the #90X90LA site and calendar. as you will see, July dates are posted. as August and September fill up, we will post them too. it’s not 100% perfect (details need to be put in for some of the events) but we think it’s … Continue reading #90x90LA