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 17^th

Time: 6 pm

Address: Online event

Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/brad-stone-with-nick-bilton/

Brian DunlapMay 17, 2021Leave a comment

Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 02/08/21 – 02/14/21

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Priyanka Chopra Jonas & Glennon Doyle & Unfinished via LiveTalks-LA – Online Event

Join us for a virtual Live Talks Los Angeles event to hear Priyanka Chopra Jonas, in conversation with author Glennon Doyle (Love Warrior). discuss her memoir, Unfinished.

Award-winning actor and producer Priyanka Chopra Jonas, wife of musician Nick Jonas, offers a thoughtful and revealing memoir reflecting on her journey of self-discovery. This remarkable life story rooted in two different worlds covers her nomadic early years, her Miss World pageant, her 20-year career as an actor and producer, and her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, to her marriage and family life.

NOTE: This is a ticketed event, so check site ofr details.

Where: LiveTalks-LA – Online event (see site)

Date: Monday the 8^th

Time: 6 pm

Address: Online event (see site)

Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/priyanka-chopra-jonas/

Brian DunlapFebruary 8, 2021Leave a comment

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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 26^th

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

Brian DunlapOctober 25, 2020Leave a comment

Los Angeles Literary Events

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 25^th 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 20^th

Time: 6 pm – 8 pm

Address: Online events (see site)

Website; https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-los-angeles-times-festival-of-books-stories-and-ideas-2020-tickets-121490518411

Brian DunlapOctober 18, 2020Leave a comment

Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

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

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Los Angeles Literature Events: 9/14/20 – 9/20/20

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

UNMUTE! is a month-long generative workshop for writers at all levels. Each week, participants will meet LIVE with poet and writer Brendan Constantine for ninety minutes, to discuss and explore approaches to poetry and discover ways to practice perpetual astonishment. Each class will end with at least one “no pressure” assignment, designed to liberate your own style. Dates of workshop: Sept. 14^th, 21^st, 28^th, and Oct, 5^th.

NOTE: See course details and costs at: https://awfulgoodwriters.com/courses/brendan-constantine-unmute/?fbclid=IwAR3DL0iNNdBJCoFn5KrMZw6_L3ua3DBb-NuEOn9miK12vaX1bD0BC-np7DE

Brian DunlapSeptember 13, 2020Leave a comment

Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 9/07/20 – 9/13/20

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Philosophy Discussion Group & Critique of Pure Reason via Arroyo Seco Regional Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event

Join Arroyo Seco Regional Branch Library’s Zoom link as we continue our discussion of Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. Newcomers are welcome.

NOTE: Email ayosco@lapl.org for participation details. Confirm at site due to holiday.

Where: Arroyo Seco Branch Library, LAPL – Online event

Date: Monday the 7^th

Time: 6:30 pm

Address: Online event (see site)

Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/philosophy-discussion-group-1

Brian DunlapSeptember 7, 2020September 7, 2020Leave a comment

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Los Angeles Literature Events: 8/31/20 – 9/06/20

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Bilingual Storytime via Robert Louis Stevenson Branch Library, LAPL Instagram Online – Kids Event

Join the Robert Louis Stevenson Branch Library’s Instagram online link for the Bilingual Storytime event, to enjoy stories, rhymes and songs in Spanish and English.

Where: Robert Louis Stevenson Branch Library, LAPL Zoom online

Date: Monday the 31^st

Time: 3 pm

Address: Online event (see site)

Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/bilingual-storytimela-hora-de-cuentos-bilingüe

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Brian DunlapAugust 31, 2020August 31, 2020Leave a comment

Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events 8/03/20 – 8/09/20

Another week full of online literary events as the community continues to navigate the pandemic: readings, open mics, book clubs, workshops and even a kids event or two. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events 8/03/20 – 8/09/20

Brian DunlapAugust 3, 2020October 27, 2023Leave a comment

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Los Angeles Literature Events 7/20/20 – 7/26/20

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Dig Deep: Virtual Storytime via South Pasadena Library Online – Kids Event

Join us as Children’s Librarians read stories, share finger-plays, songs and flannel-board stories. Each week this event will be available for viewing from Monday through Thursday of that week. For more information about the Summer Reading Program, visit the library website.

Where: South Pasadena Library Online (see event site)

Date: Monday the 20^th

Time: 10:30 am – 11 am

Address: Online event

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/697708884358392/

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Brian DunlapJuly 20, 2020January 31, 2023Leave a comment