Los Angeles Literature Events: 01/03/22 – 01/09/22
Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Monday Night Fiction Workshop at Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online
This free Monday Night Fiction Workshop led by Raquel Baker is a community writing workshop in which participants are asked to bring copies of 2-3 pages of fiction to read, and to use for critique and discussion. Registration is required.
Raquel Baker earned a PhD in English Literary Studies from the University of Iowa and an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. She is currently Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Studies and Transnational Literatures at CSU Channel Islands. She also has published poetry and non-fiction, and done readings with the Ventura Poetry Project.
Where: Beyond Baroque – Online event (tickets at Eventbrite)
Date: Monday the 3rd
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online
Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/monday-night-fiction-workshop-tickets-23556712661
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“L.A.’s a Strange Place”: On Judith Freeman’s “MacArthur Park”
Judith Freeman’s latest book “MacArthur Park” is set in L.A. from 1984 to the present century as it explores the complexities of a friendship between two women—and how it shapes, and reshapes, both of their lives. Continue reading “L.A.’s a Strange Place”: On Judith Freeman’s “MacArthur Park”
Interview With an Author: Steven Reigns
By Daryl M.
FROM: LAPL Blog
Steven Reigns is a Los Angeles poet and educator and was appointed the first Poet Laureate of West Hollywood. Alongside over a dozen chapbooks, he has published the collections Inheritance, and Your Dead Body is My Welcome Mat.
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Review: A Quilt for David by Steven Reigns
“Reigns also shows us how a cultural shame over sexuality helped to make Acer an easy target for those trying who saw revelation of a sexual past worse than death.” Continue reading Review: A Quilt for David by Steven Reigns
What Falls Away is Always, Ed. Katharine Haake and Gail Wronksy
“Members of the Los Angeles Glass Table Collective consider the topic ‘late-stage writing’ in the essay collection ‘What Falls Away is Always: Writers Over 60 on Writing & Death.'” Continue reading What Falls Away is Always, Ed. Katharine Haake and Gail Wronksy
traci kato-kiriyama’s Book Release
By Brian Dunlap
One of the last literary events of the year occurred Saturday at the Rissho Kosei-Kai Buddhist church in Boyle Heights. It was the release party for traci kato-kiriyama’s new book of poetry, micro essays and notes to self, Navigating With(out) Instruments. The event was hosted by the master mc himself, Mike Sonksen. This Buddhist church was where Sonksen married his wife Emi.
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A Place Built by Poets for Poets
“South Central Los Angeles has long had a vibrant poetry” and now “a dedicated venue to write, read, and listen to the work of poets” opened this past summer. Continue reading A Place Built by Poets for Poets
Los Angeles Literature Events Lists for 12/20/21 – 12/26/21 and 12/27/21 – 1/2/22, Cancelled
As Christmas and New Years fast approach, the Los Ángeles literary community grows silent. There are very few readings, or other literary events of any kind. One of the few is the Crowdcast event, Hannah Kozak, in conversation with Aline Smithson, discusses He Threw The Last Punch Too Hard, hosted by Book Soup on the 28th at 6pm. The link is: https://www.booksoup.com/event/hannah-kozak
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New Yorkers scoffed. 10 Years Later, the Los Angeles Review of Books is a Cultural Force
By Dorany Pineda
FROM: Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Review of books was conceived more than a decade ago during a dark period for the print literary ecosystem.
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We Do What We Can: A Coversation With Ryka Aoki
Ryka Aoki discusses her new novel “Light from Uncommon Stars,” set in the San Gabriel Valley, about a queer violinist, immigration, aliens; her writing process; and her process in writing the novel. Continue reading We Do What We Can: A Coversation With Ryka Aoki
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