Hitched at Holy Grounds Celebrates Macondo Writers and Two Book Releases!
by Michael Sedano
From: Labloga
Hitched is a quarterly reading series, created and engagingly hosted by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo. Notable for Bermejo’s pairing of intriguing voices, Hitched might feature seasoned with emerging writers, people working in complementary styles, writers with contrasting approaches. Bermejo always finds a delighting facet in her guests’ poetry and prose.
For December, the event paired two writers bringing debut books to light, Vickie Vertiz’s collection, Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut (University of Arizona Press) and Joseph Rios’s collection, Shadowboxing (Omnidawn)! In addition, all the writers were Macondistas, including liz gonzalez, Alex Espinoza, Tisha Reichle, Sarah Rafael García. With Saturday’s reading, Hitched reaches its seventh year. In Los Angeles, that’s an institution. That Macondo writers workshop has been an institution since Day One.
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Beginnings & Endings at Avenue 50 and La Palabra
by Michael Sedano
From: Labloga
Karineh Mahdessian restrained the tears that refused restraint so the tears flowed as she disclosed news to a supportive crowd that today wraps her service hosting the immensely important and popular reading series, La Palabra at Avenue 50 Studio in Northeast Los Angeles. The December 10 meeting wraps the series for 2017.
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Los Angeles Literature Events 12/11/17 –12/17/17
Father Gregory Boyle at Vroman’s Bookstore (Off-site at All Saints Church)
Come to hear author and founder of Homeboy Industries, Father Gregory Boyle, discuss and sign his new book Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship.
The author of Tatoos on the Heart leads the largest gang intervention program in the world, and his first book was hailed as an astounding literary and spiritual feat. Now, in a nation deeply divided and plagued by poverty and violence, he offers a snapshot into the challenges and joys of life on the margins in Barking to the Choir. This book is guaranteed to shake up our ideas about God and about people with a glimpse at a world defined by more compassion and fewer barriers.
NOTE: You must RSVP at website link to eventbrite to pay $34 for admission for two and one copy of book.
Where: All Saints Church
Date: Monday the 11th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 132 N. Euclid Ave., Pasadena, CA 91101
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Los Angeles Literature Events 12/04/17 –12/10/17
These Violent Delights at Book Soup
Please join us to hear Victoria Namkung discuss and sign her novel, These Violent Delights, set in modern-day Los Angeles at Windemere School for Girls, an elite private school where Dr. Gregory Copeland is the beloved chair of the English Department. A married father with a penchant for romantic poetry—and impressionable teenage girls—he operates in plain sight for years, until one of his former students goes public with allegations of inappropriate conduct. This is a literary exploration of the pressures and vulnerabilities so many women and girls face, and analyzes the ways our institutions and families fail to protect or defend us.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Monday the 4th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/victoria-namkung-discusses-and-signs-these-violent-delights
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Even More Good Publishing News From the Los Angeles Literary Community
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Los Angeles Literature Events 11/27/17 –12/03/17
Conchas Y Café Zine Workshop at Baldwin Hills Branch Library, LAPL
Please join us every Monday at 1 pm as we make a zine in our Conchas Y Café Workshop for adults, with DSTL Arts. Our zine will be added to our #LAPLZineLibrary at Baldwin Hills Library!
Where: Baldwin Hills Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 27th
Time: 1 pm
Address: 2906 S. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90016
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/guerrilla-tacos-qa-wes-avila-and-richard-parks-iii
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Janet Fitch explains what it took to go back to Russia 100 years ago in ‘The Revolution of Marina M.’
By Janet Fitch
From: The Los Angeles Times
My new novel debuts on the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, which is also the historical moment of the book. It didn’t take me quite 100 years to write “The Revolution of Marina M.,” but 11 years was long enough.
Handprints On Walk of Fame. Jesus Treviño Visits Stanford Raza. Season Season.
by Michael Sedano
From: Labloga.com
Summers from Junior High through the year I left home for college, I laid cement slabs for patios, pool edges, walkways, and the like, under tutelage of my Dad.
We checked the book he got in CCC before the war for the mix. Shovel 3-3-1sand, gravel, cement into the wheelbarrow, eyeball the water and mix to the right consistency. Haul the mezcla to the hole and pour. Work the surface with a two-by-four then trowels. A well-laid slab glistening against a setting sun is about as satisfying a sight as a worker can enjoy.
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Best Independant Bookstore Eso Won Books
by Tanja M. Laden From: L.A. Weekly Originally a planned community built in the 1920s, Leimert Park has since become the epicenter of African-American culture in Los Angeles. It’s also home to a beloved independent bookstore that’s been around since the late 1980s, owned and operated by James Fugate and Thomas Hamilton. Eso Won Bookstore occupied four other locations before landing in Leimert Park in 2006; by all … Continue reading Best Independant Bookstore Eso Won Books
Daniel A. Olivas “Crossing the Border” Book Launch at Avenue 50
By Brian Dunlap
When one attends a reading at Avenue 50 Studio in Highland Park, one can’t help but first be drawn to all the powerful Latinx art that adorn it’s four galleries/rooms. It’s a gallery space for visual arts first and foremost. This past Saturday was no different. However, as much as I liked the art from artists such as Sergio Teran, I was there for Daniel A. Olivas’ book release reading for his debut poetry collection Crossing the Border.
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