How This Chicano Poet From Diamond Bar Got Into 50 Bookstores Without A Major Publisher
“Now jobless, and finally in possession of a car after years of calling up rideshares and riding the bus), I decided it was time to bring the hustle I had brought towards building up my resume and touring across the country towards hustling books.” Continue reading How This Chicano Poet From Diamond Bar Got Into 50 Bookstores Without A Major Publisher
Excerpt & Q&A: Agave Blues by Ruthie Marlenée
Maya’s story “is interwoven with the magic of Jesus Maria, a small village in Mexico, and her life as a successful lawyer in Los Angeles.” Continue reading Excerpt & Q&A: Agave Blues by Ruthie Marlenée
Inaugural Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series Selection
Burbank native Arthur Kayzakian says about his forthcoming book “The Book of Redacted Paintings”: “It is a combination of wishing I could paint the pieces I see in my head and the feeling of something torn out from within me due to a traumatic upbringing.” Continue reading Inaugural Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series Selection
Los Angeles Literature Events: 03/07/22 – 03/13/22
Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Book Club Bonanza: Women’s History Celebration via Central Library, LAPL – Online Teen Event
Join us to pick a book to read via Hoopla in celebration of Women’s History Month. We will pitch each other YA fiction, nonfiction or graphic novels, and return on March 14 for read-alikes on the book(s) we’ve chosen, and on March 21 for our book discussion.
NOTE: See site for event detail and to RSVP.
Where: Central LIbrary, LAPL – Online event
Date: Monday the 7th
Time: 4:30 pm
Address: LAPL Online Event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-bonanza-womens-history-celebration
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2nd Annual Culver City Book Fair
Last Saturday the 2nd Annual Culver City Book Festival took place at the Wende Museum of the Cold War. Here is what happened. Continue reading 2nd Annual Culver City Book Fair
Meet Lisbeth Coiman | Bilingual Author and Educator
“Everywhere I turn in Los Angeles’ poets and writers have helped me and opened opportunities to me that I could only dream of 20 years ago when I first arrived in the USA.” Continue reading Meet Lisbeth Coiman | Bilingual Author and Educator
Los Angeles Literature Events: 02/28/22 – 03/06/22
Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Vroman’s Live Event: Local Author Day via Vroman’s – Online Event
Join Vroman’s Live Local Author Day, featuring three authors and their new work.
Barbara Mossberg is the author of the book, Here for the Present. In this exuberant record of the author engaging audiences from California to Finland, you will find poems, stories, memoir, humor, elegies, celebrations, travel narratives, rollicking speeches, nature rapture, literary tributes, cooking instructions, and love songs, among other riches. In her company, experience moments “when the Universe will reveal itself … as something generous and good, some whiff of passing grace.”
Felicia Taylor E. is the author of Southern Spiced: A Brown Girl’s Tale, which weaves stories through narrative poetry of the author’s memories of her childhood in the 1970’s South. She writes of stories of self-identity in an honest and often humorous way.
Robert Vincent is the author of the children’s book, From the Pocket of an Overcoat. It tells the true story of his son’s black cat named Max, who was rescued by a homeless woman in Dallas. A portion of books sales will be donated to organizations that promote animal rescue and adoption.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and event details.
Where: Vroman’s Live – Online event
Date: Monday the 28th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Vroman’s – Online Event (see site)
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Mariana Enriquez, Michael Connelly, S.A. Cosby Among LA Times Book Prize Finalists
By Dorany Pineda
FROM: Los Angeles Times
The finalists for the 42nd Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced today, with Claire Vaye Watkins, Joy Williams, Michael Connelly and Martín Espada among the nominees for the annual literary awards.
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Los Angeles Literary Events Cancelled
Due to my family contracting COVID, there is no list of weekly events.
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Segerstrom Welcomes Natalie Graham as VP of Community Engagement
Poet and Cal State Fullerton Professor Natalie Graham, is the new VP of Community Engagement for the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Orange County. Continue reading Segerstrom Welcomes Natalie Graham as VP of Community Engagement
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