Los Angeles Literature Events 6/18/19 – 6/23/19
Your Author Series & Ashlyn Anstee at Cahuenga Branch Library, LAPL – Kids Event
Join us for a discussion with author Ashlyn Anstee as she presents her latest children’s book, Are We There Yet? Ashlyn has done it all: animator, author and illustrator. .She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and three cats.
Where: Cahuenga Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Tuesday the 18th
Time: 3 pm – 4 pm
Address: 4591 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90029
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/your-author-series-starring-ashlyn-anstee
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Passing of A Los Ángeles Poet Holly Prado
Accomplished local poet, teacher and mentor, Holly Prado, passed away on June 14th in West Hills. Her impact on the community, contributing to workshops, readings, and literary salons, along with her deeply introspective, mystical, and often spiritual poetry, will be remembered. Continue reading Passing of A Los Ángeles Poet Holly Prado
REVIEW: LITTLE MILLION DOORS: AN ELEGY BY CHAD SWEENEY
by James Benton
FROM: Los Angeles Review
Like a hurricane of images, or a tsunami of grief, Sweeny’s lines strain against a background of stability and coherence that barely holds together. The book is an elegy not only because the title tells us so, but because it performs its elegiac ritual without the filter of conventional form or syntactical coherence. If grief is inchoate, the poet asks, what language is sufficient to the duty it is called upon to perform? The answer is a language suddenly released from its duties to inform or to persuade—functions of containment, framing, and interpretation—a non-syntax left to its singular capacity to conjure the ineffable, to bring it into being.
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Los Angeles Literature Events 6/10/19 – 6/16/19
Summer Author Series & Aditi Khorana at Canoga Park Branch Library, LAPL – Teens Event
Join us for a discussion with author Aditi Khorana as she presents her latest novel, Library of Fates. Aditi’s international upbringing included stays in India, Denmark, and New England. She has been a journalist for ABC News, CNN, and PBS, and is currently serving as a marketing consultant for the entertainment industry. In her spare time she enjoys the architecture of Los Angeles and the great outdoors.
Where: Canoga Park Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 10th
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: 20939 Sherman Way, Canoga Park, CA 91303
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/your-author-series-starring-aditi-khorana
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A few thoughts on adapting “The Courtship of María Rivera Peña” for the screen
By Daniel A. Olivas
FROM: Labloga.com
Nineteen years ago, a small independent press based in Pennsylvania—sadly now defunct—published my first book, a novella titled The Courtship of María Rivera Peña(Silver Lake Publishing). The story is loosely based on the migration of my paternal grandparents from Mexico to Los Angeles in the 1920s and follows the courtship, marriage, and family life of the cook Beto and the beautiful waitress María. Three years later, a longer, second edition was published under the same name but with a slightly different cover design. I am now exploring with a publisher whether we can publish a 20th anniversary edition that would include a scholarly introduction.
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Los Angeles Literature Events 6/03/19 – 6/09/19
A is for ACTION: A Social Justice Book Club for Kids at Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL – Kids Event
Literature can transform the way we look at the world, deepening our understanding of even the most complex issues of today.
Check out the book of the month from the library, read it, then come join us for the conversation and crafts! Children ages 5+ and their families are welcome.
Our book for June is: El deafo, by Cece Bell. Library copies are available to borrow at the Information Desk.
Where: Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 3rd
Time: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Address: 5027 Caspar Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90041
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/action-social-justice-book-club-kids
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Invisible No More: How “Fade Into You” Reflects the L.A. Chicanx Experience
By Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo
FROM: LARB
SEVENTEEN AND HIGH, Nikki Darling swaggers down the middle of Garvey Boulevard, a busy thoroughfare in the San Gabriel Valley, as cars swerve around her: “‘Three Days’ by Jane’s Addiction is playing on my Walkman and I feel like I’m in a movie, like I’m an assassin.” She stands in the street with a cigarette hanging from her lips, with “someplace to be or maybe nowhere to go.” She taunts the cars as they pass: “Fly around me, motherfuckers! Fly around me like I’m not even here!”
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L.A.’s Not A Cult Press Teams Up With Echo Park’s Stories Books & Cafe
By Brian Dunlap
Yesterday, L.A.’s Not A Cult Press announced on its Facebook page that Stories Books & Cafe has teamed up with them to sponsor their annual poetry submissions award. The award will now be called the Stories Award for Poetry. The winner gets a cash prize of $1,000 and a publishing deal with Not A Cult.
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Sara Borjas At The Virgil
By Brian Dunlap
The atmosphere at the Virgil was electric. Beats from music spun by DJs filled the room with powerful comradery. L.A. writers filled the room in support of a member of the literary community from Fresno, poet Sara Borjas. The night emanated a bit of hip hop and club.
Los Angeles Literature Events 5/27/19 – 6/02/19
New Book Club: Spiritual Classics with Nick Shindo Street at the Last Bookstore
At some point, everyone has to wrestle with personal belief and one’s orientation to the universe. Whether addressing origins or destiny, what lies inside or what’s “out there”—it’s a good bet that those who’ve come before have something to offer. In this club we dive into the best wisdom we can find, guided by author and journalist Nick Shindo Street. Nick is the senior writer at the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture, and his biggest turn-ons are wonder, awe, and curiosity.
The choice for our first Book Club selection is The Undiscovered Self, by Carl Jung, and we will take stock of the individual in church and state.
NOTE: All of the bookstore’s book clubs and programs are ticketed events, so see website for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Monday the 27th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
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