Los Angeles Literature Events: 11/16/20 – 11/22/20
Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
South to Freedom & Professor Alice L. Baumgartner via Huntington-USC Institute – Zoom Online Event
Join us as Professor Alice L. Baumgartner, in conversation with historian Albert Brossard and Institute Director William Deverell, discusses her new book, South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War.
Where: Huntington-USC Institute – Zoom & Facebook Online Event (see site for further details)
Date: Monday the 16th
Time: 12 pm
Address: Huntington-USC Institute – Zoom Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1706751046153577
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David Ulin Talks USC’s New Literary Journal ‘Air/Light’ And Its Focus On Southern California
By Peter Larsen
FROM: Orange County Register
While considering a name for the new literary journal “Air/Light,” editor David Ulin recalled a magazine piece he’d read years ago in which a climatologist described the unusual way that air transforms light in Southern California.
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Los Angeles Literature Events: 11/09/20 – 11/15/20
Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Immigrant Writing Workshop with Restless Books via Studio City Public Library – Online Event
Join us for a Immigrant Writing Workshop with Restless Books. Each workshop has three sessions, so please register for only one. Join us for an offering of the Innovation Lab’s ”Belonging” series, taught by Restless Books publisher Ilan Stavans, which is designed to help immigrant communities develop their voices, self-confidence, and self-esteem. See details at site.
To register for this event, email Emilie at eaaronson@lapl.org
Where: Studio City Public Library – Online Event (see site for further details)
Date: Monday the 9th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Simi Valley Public Library – Online event
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America’s Oldest Children’s Bookstore is Struggling in the Pandemic. But There’s Hope
By Mary McNamara
FROM: Los Angeles Times
Once upon a time, in the hills above Los Angeles, where owls hoot, bear cubs frolic and deer trip daintily down the street, there lived a family with two little girls, named Jessica and Amelia, who loved to read.
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POETRY: Mowing Down Statues and Tipping Sacred Cows
In poet Matt Sedillo’s book “Mowing Leaves of Grass” he discusses lived experience, a Chicano growing up in the barrio, all while critiquing American society and history. Continue reading POETRY: Mowing Down Statues and Tipping Sacred Cows
Los Angeles Literature Events: 11/02/20 – 11/08/20
Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
NaNoWriMo Workshop Series via Simi Valley Public Library – Online Event
Join us for a Virtual NaNoWriMo Workshop series, with session #1, “Getting Started,” and start brainstorming your new novel!
This annual event is a creative writing project in which participants attempt to write a 50,000-word manuscript during the month of November, to jump start their project. Join our virtual workshops to collaborate with others, for feedback and fun.
To register for this event, email Stephanie Erbe @ simivalleylibrary.org.
NOTE: Other libraries also offer November novel writing events, so check listings.
Where: Simi Valley Public Library – Online Event (see site for further details)
Date: Monday the 2nd
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Simi Valley Public Library – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1128883287514193
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Brian Sonia-Wallace Is Named West Hollywood’s New Poet Laureate
by Henry E. (Hank) Scott
FROM: WHEOville.com
The West Hollywood City Council last night officially designated Brian Sonia-Wallace as the city’s poet laureate. Sonia-Wallace is the fourth person to assume the position, which was created in 2014.
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Los Angeles Literature Events: 10/26/20 – 11/01/20
Los Angeles Literature Events: 10/26/20 – 11/01/20
Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Magical Feminism: An Editorial Discussion via Electric Literature – Zoom Online Event
Halimah Marcus, executive editor of Electric Literature talks to Marie-Helene Bertino (Parakeet, 2 a.m. at the Cat’s Pajamas, Safe as Houses) and Elissa Washuta (White Magic, My Body Is a Book of Rules,, Shapes of Native Nonfiction) about coping with trauma and subverting expectations at the intersection of magic and reality. They will discuss how magic works in practice and as a rhetorical device in fiction. Q&A will follow.
Where: Electric Literature – Online Event (see site for further details)
Date: Monday the 26th
Time: 3 pm – 4 pm PST
Address: Electric Literature – Online event
Website: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/acqg3qqk or contact Halimah Marcus, halimah@electricliterature.com
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events: 10/26/20 – 11/01/20”Chicana Writing Avatar Sarah Rafael García Moves Forward with Her Rolling Bookstore
by Liz Goldner
FROM: KCET.org
Sarah Rafael García, a familiar writer/entrepreneur/celebrity in her hometown of Santa Ana, exudes radiance, energy and success. Yet she attributes her accomplishments in writing, teaching, publishing and recently becoming the owner of a bookstore to acknowledging discomfort in her life. She uses that discomfort — as an out-of-place Chicana — as a major source of motivation.
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Los Angeles Literature Evnts: 10/19/20 – 10/25/20
Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2020 – Online Fiction Event
Join the 25th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas, postponed from April 2020, and offered virtually during October and November. A total of 25 literary events will take place from October 18- November 13, and tickets are FREE!
Today’s program features a discussion between Pulitzer Prize winning author Ayad Akhtar and bestselling author Reza Aslan, who will discuss Akhtar’s new book, Hometown Elegies: This novel blends fact and fiction to tell an epicstory of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, at its heart this is the story of a father, a son, and the country they call home.
Ayad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright, whose work has been published and performed in over two dozen languages. He is the winner of numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Junk, and an award in literature form the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Hometown Elegies is his latest novel.
Reza Aslan (Interviewer) is a renowned writer, commentator, and professor, Emmy-nominated producer, and scholar of religions. He is the author of three bestselling books, including, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth.
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Monday the 20th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
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