How Pico Iyer found L.A.’s Beating Heart at the L.A. Times Festival of Books
By PICO IYER
FROM: The L.A. Times
Los Angeles is the city without a heart, we used to hear when I was growing up in England, few of us having come within 5,000 miles of California. Seventy-eight school districts in search of a center, a desert car culture in which every last soul is locked inside her own four doors, a teenage wasteland: The clichés came streaming in on us as we stood in the rain at bus stops in chilly Oxford, on our way to another unheated basement.
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First-ever virtual L.A. Times Festival of Books Lineup Includes Natalie Portman, Jerry Brown
by Nardine Saad
FROM: The L.A. Times
The 25th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Stories & Ideas has completed its table of contents for the literary celebration’s 2020 pandemic edition.
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Los Angeles Literature Events: 10/12/20 – 10/18/20
Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Cover to Cover Reading Club for Kids, from October 5th – November 13th – Kids Event
Stop by the Orange Public Library & History Center to sign up for the In-N-Out Cover to Cover Reading Club, which will run until November 13th. Kids ages 4-12 are eligible to participate. For every five books read, each child will receive a Cover to Cover Achievement certificate redeemable for one hamburger, cheeseburger, or gilled cheese. Earn up to three certificates per child, while supplies last.
NOTE: Details available at website link.
Where: Orange Public Library & History Center – Zoom Online Event
Date: Monday the 12th
Time: 10 am – 7 pm
Address: 407 E. Chapman Ave., Orange, CA
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2399363487036106
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Santa Monica’s Teen Readers Society is Busy Building The Next Generation of Bookworms
By Julia Escobar
FROM: The Argonaut
Since the late 1970s, the percentage of 12th graders who said they read a book or magazine almost every day for pleasure has dropped from 60% to 16%, according to a study published by the American Psychology Association.
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Los Angeles Literature Events: 10/05/20 – 10/11/20
Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS Nick Hornby & Just Like You via Literary Affairs’ Books & Bathrobes – Zoom Online Event Bestselling author Nick Hornby will discuss his novel Just Like You in a book club-style conversation with Julie Robinson in a Zoom online event. This novel is a twenty-first century love story about what happens when the person who makes you … Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 10/05/20 – 10/11/20
Poet Sara Borjas Wins Prestigious Award
By Brian Dunlap
Last year Fresno native and L.Á. based poet and UC Riverside professor, Sara Borjas, published her debut collection Heart Like A Window, Mouth Like A Cliff,” from Noemi Press, to critical acclaim. It’s a poetry collection about her chicanx heritage, immediate family, and personal journey, in terms of love, chicanx gender rolls and expectations and, as she calls herself, of being a “Pocha.”
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No List Of Events This Week
This week there will be no list of events. There are plenty of events out there if you cheek Facebook Events. However, Los Angeles Literature’s list of weekly events will return next week for another week of livestreamed events. Continue reading No List Of Events This Week
News From Poet Angelina Sáenz
By Brian Dunlap
During the Coronavirus pandemic, poet Angelina Sáenz revised her monthly open mic, La Palabra, and made it a weekly series for 10 weeks: 10 Poets in 10 Weeks. One poet a week was featured. They ranged from Jenise Miller to Willie Perdomo to Octavio Quintanilla. She’s been the host of the Highland Park-based open mic for just over two and a half years.
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Bel Canto Books in Long Beach Has Stories For Everyone
by Kristen Farrah Naeem
FROM: Signal Tribune
Jhoanna Belfer, owner of Bel Canto Books, has lined its shelves with the stories she didn’t see as a young reader, featuring main characters of color that the children of Long Beach can see themselves in.
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Los Angeles Literature Events: 9/21/20 – 9/27/20
Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Speaker Series with Alison Rose Jefferson & Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During the Jim Crow Era via The Ebell of Los Angeles – Online Event
The Ebell hosts author and speaker Alison Rose Jefferson, who will share her research and findings contained in her book, Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era. Our local public places and leisure sites hold a central place in the ongoing freedom rights struggle, and the author describes these cases and efforts in detail.
Where: The Ebell Speaker Series – Online (see site)
Date: Monday the 21st
Time: 12pm – 1 pm
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/269045181101014
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