Los Angeles Literature Events: 05/17/21 – 05/23/21
Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Brad Stone, with Nick Bilton, & Amazon Unbound via Live Talks LA – Online Event
Author and Bloomberg News writer Brad Stone, in conversation with Nick Bilton, will discuss his new book, Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire.
Amazon Unbound is an unvarnished picture of Amazon’s unprecedented growth, and its billionaire founder Jeff Bezos, revealing the most important business story of our time. Brad Stone is also the author of The Everything Store, Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon and The upstarts: Uber, Airbnb, and the Battle for the New Silicon Valley.
Almost ten years ago the author captured the rise of Amazon, an internet pioneer quietly changing the way we shop online. Ever since, Amazon has expanded exponentially, inventing novel products, acquiring and diversifying into new a areas and disrupting countless industries while its valuation has soared to over a trillion dollars, with an empire that spans the globe. This book also probes the evolution of Bezos himself, an unvarnished portrait of a man and company we couldn’t imagine modern life without.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this ticketed event.
Where: LiveTalks LA – Online event
Date: Monday the 17th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/brad-stone-with-nick-bilton/
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Former Governor of CA’s Granddaughter Writes Memoir of Riches to Rags
By Camylle Fleming
Author Heather Haldeman’s debut memoir Kids & Cocktails Don’t Mix (Apprentice House Press, June 2021) explores machinations of gender and power dynamics in the 1960s and ’70s as Heather comes of age and must decide how she wants her own life to look.
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INFLUX COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: INFLUX COLLECTIVE THE PODCAST JUNE 1 2021
FROM: Influx Collective
LA’s freshest free monthly queer poetry reading series, Influx Collectiv: Queer Reading Series, welcomes Influx Collectiv: the Podcast to all streaming platforms near you!
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L.A. River Public Art Project Kicks off 2nd Annual Lewis MacAdams Prize
Juried public art competition honoring FoLAR Co-Founder call for submissions, now open
From: lariverpublicartproject.org
Los Angeles–In honor of Lewis MacAdams (1944-2020), co-founder of Friends of the Los Angeles River, the L.A. River Public Art Project (LARPAP) launch[ed] the 2nd annual Lewis MacAdams Prize on April 27th. The competition is a forum for artists to present work that imagines the Los Angeles River as a transformed space for public art that addresses place, community and creativity.
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Los Angeles Literature Events: 05/10/21 – 05/16/21
Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Raakhee Mirchandani & Holly Hataam: Hair Twins Storytime & Book Signing via Children’s Book World – Online Kids Event
Author Raakhee Mirchandani and illustrator Holly Hatam, will read and discuss their new book, Hair Twins.
Hair Twins is the story of a Sikh father and daughter with a special bond. They proudly celebrate and share a family tradition concerning how they care for their hair and their choices of hairstyles they select from each morning. In this charming picture book we learn that the daughter’s favorite style is the tight bun on the top of her head, which is like the joora her father wears ev3ery day under his turban. They call this their hair twin look!
You may sign up as an individual or as a class or school to attend with a book pre-purchase.
NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.
Where: Children’s Book World – Online event
Date: Monday the 10th
Time: 9:30 am
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.childrensbookworld.com/event/exclusive-hair-twins-storytime-and-book-signing
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Announcing the Beyond Baroque Poetry Coalition Fellowship Position!
FROM: Beyond Baroque
The #PoetryCoalition is pleased to announce the 2021–2022 Poetry Coalition Fellowships, which are paid fellowship positions hosted by founding members Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Beyond Baroque, In-Na-Po (Indigenous Nations Poets), Lambda Literary, and Zoeglossia. The fellowship program is made possible by the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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An L.Á. Writer and Racial Solidarity
By Brian Dunlap
Last month Maylin Tu posted on Facebook about the pitch she submitted to ROCK PAPER RADIO’s Asian and Black solidarity project, #AZNxBLM. This project is a call for “solidarity and creative awareness-building” as it says on their website, in light of the surge of Anti-Asian violence, and “[sought] to fund a collection of original art and writing that responds to the surge in anti-Asian hate crimes with determination and humanity.”
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L.Á. Poet and Teacher Nurtures Young Artists
By Brian Dunlap
L.Á. native, high school English teacher and poet Alex Hohmann is passionate about her students. She’s always looking for ways to turn them into natural critical thinkers, citizens who evaluate and sort through the barrage of info society overwhelms them with, to understand the topic or issues at hand, to make informed decisions. To be able to understand themselves better.
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Los Angeles Literature Events: 05/03/21 – 05/09/21
Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Wesley Brown, with Douglas Kearney, & Tragic Magic via Skylight Books – Online Event
Wesley Brown, in conversation with poet Douglas Kearney, will read and discuss his book, Tragic Magic.
Wesley Brown is the author of three novels, a collection of short stories, Dance of the Infidels, and four produced plays. Tragic Magic is the story of Melvin Ellington, a.k.a. Mouth, a Black, twenty-something ex-college radical who has just been released from a five-year prison stretch after being a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War. The author structures this first person tale around Ellington’s first day on the outside, haunted by a past that drives him to make sense of choices leading up to this day.
Originally published in 1978, and edited by Toni Morrison during her time at Random House, this Of the Diaspora edition of Tragic Magic features a new introduction by author Wesley Brown.
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Where: Skylight Books – Online event
Date: Monday the 3rd
Time: 4:30 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-wesley-brown-reads-tragic-magic-douglas-kearney
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2021 LitFest Pasadena May 15-16
By Brian Dunlap
LitFest Pasadena returns for another year, to celebrate the Southern California literary community. However, the 2021 edition is virtual. LITFEST spans two days, Saturday and Sunday, May 15-16. Noon to 6pm. The livestreamed LITFEST will broadcast 12 50-minute panel discussions as well as 10-minute interludes between each panel with pre-recorded readings and short films.
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