As usual, another busy week full of literary events: readings, open mics, book clubs, workshops, a few kids, teen, youth and LGBTQIA+ specific events. Many local writers reading this week include: Cynthia Guardado, Sofia Aguilar, Suzanne Lummis, Shonda Buchanan, Mary Camarillo, Christopher Soto and Rosalilia M. Mendoza, among others. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 10/09/23 – 10/15/23
As usual, another busy week full of literary events: readings, open mics, book clubs, workshops, a few kids and teen/YA events. Local writers reading this week include: Nancy Lynée Woo, Ruth Nolan, Arminé Iknadossian, Iris De Anda, Myriam Gurba, Teresa Mei Chuc, traci kato-kiriyama and Jeff Rogers, among others. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 09/18/23 – 09/24/23
Another busy week in the Los Ángeles Literary community featuring both in-person and virtual events. Readings, workshops, open mics, book clubs, etc. Local Writers reading this week are: Linda Ravenswood, Nicelle Davis, Christian Hanz Lozada, Tommy Domino, Luivette Resto, Namrata Poddar, Melissa Chadburn, Noel Alumit and Pete Hsu. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 05/16/22 – 05/22/22
NOTE: There Are Both Online and Virtual Events Listed Here
A Celebration of Chicano Culture with Dr. José Ángel Gutiérrez at El Camino College – In-Person Event
Dr. José Ángel Gutiérrez, a primary figure of the Chicano Movement and founder of the Raza Unida Party, will speak on identity and activism.
Dr. José Ángel Gutiérrez, the author of numerous books on Chicano culture, including The Eagle Has Eyes: The FBI Surveillance of Cesar E. Chavez of the United Farmworkers Union of America, 1965-1975 (2019), is a primary figure of the Chicano Movement and founder of the Raza Unida Party. He will speak on identity and activism in an afternoon presentation.
NOTE: See site for event details. Free and open to the public.
Where: El Camino College, Haag Recital Hall
Date: Monday the 18th
Time: 1:15 pm – 2:45 pm
Address: 16007 Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance, CA 90506
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NOTE: There Are Both Online and Virtual Events
World Literature Book Club: Story Selections via Central Library, LAPL – Online Event
Join us for a spirited discussion of the world’s best short stories! All selections are from The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story (New York, 2021) ed. John Freeman. This week’s selection is:
March 21: A Temporary Matter by Jhumpa Lahiri (1998)
NOTE: See site for event details and Zoom link.
Where: West Valley Regional Branch Library, LAPL – Online event
Date: Monday the 21st
Time: 10 am
Address: LAPL – Online Event
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/world-literature-book-club-28
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Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
45th Annual UCR Writers Week Festival via UC Riverside – Online Event
Join the 45th Annual UCR Writers Week Festival of Events: February 12 and 14-18, 2022. This series of events is online, free and open to the public, (captioned & ASL translated), and you may register at site link or on any session time listed there.
DAY 2 of 6, EVENTS:
Session 1: 3 pm PST:
Edgar Gomez is the author of High Risk Homosexual: A Memoir, which follows a touching and often hilarious spiral-like path to embracing his gay, Latinx identity against a culture of machismo. This is a crackling, witty and poignant debut.
Daniel Olivas is the author most recently of How to Date a Flying Mexican, New and Collected Stories (University of Nevada Press, 2022). He is the author of ten books and editor of two anthologies, as well as plays produced for the stage and readings by Playwrights’ Arena, Circle X Theatre Company, and The Road Theatre Company. He has written for many publications, including the New York Times, The Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, LARB, La Bloga, BOMB, and others
Steve Erickson is the author of ten novels, and has written two books about American politics and popular culture, Leap Year and American Nomad. He has also written for Esquire, Rolling Stone, Smithsonian, Salon, and other publications and journals. He was editor and co-founder of Black Clock literary journal, and is now film/TV critic for Los Angeles magazine and a Distinguished Professor at UC Riverside.
Session 2: 5 pm PST:
Jamaica Heolimeleikatani Osorio is the author of Remembering Our Intimacies (University of Minnesota Press, 2021). She interlaces stories from her forebears with cultural artifacts from her own life to explore questions of cultural inheritance and the particular danger, as a Native woman, of relaxing into romantic love under colonial rule. Dr. Osorio is a Kanaka Maoli artist and scholar and an Assistant Professor of Indigenous and Native Hawaiian Politics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Elisa Washuta is the author most recently of White Magic (Tin House, 2022), long-listed for the PEN Open Book Award and the PEN/Jean Stein Award, a collection of intertwined essays about land, heartbreak, and colonization, about life without the escape hatch of intoxication, and about how she became a powerful witch. She interlaces stories from her forebears with cultural aspects of her own life to explore questions of cultural inheritance and the particular danger, as a Native woman, of relaxing into romantic love under colonial rule. She is a member of the Cowlitz Indian tribe and an assistant professor of creative writing at the Ohio State University.
Session 3: 6:30 pm PST
Anthony Cody is the author most recently of the 2021 American Book Award winning Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn, 2020). He has a lineage in both the Bracero Program and the Dust Bowl and his poetry has appeared widely. He has taught eco-poetry at Fresno State University, and read and led workshops across the country. He continues to run the Laureate Lab Studio with Juan Felipe Herrera at Fresno State, and serves as poetry editor for Noemi Press and a poetry editor for Omnidawn.
Carribean Fragoza is a passionate writer, journalist, and artist from South El Monte, and is the author most recently of the collection Eat the Mouth that Feeds You (City Lights), and is also co-editor of East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte. She is also founder and co-director of the South El Monte Art Posse (SEMAP), a multi-disciplinary arts collective.
Sesschu Foster taught composition and literature in East L.A. for over 20 years, and also taught at the University of Iowa, CalArts and UC Santa Cruz. His most recent books are City of the Future, poetry; World Ball Notebook, poetry; and Atomik Aztex, a novel. His has won numerous literary awards, including the Paterson Poetry Prize for City Terrace Field Manual. He is based in Alhambra, CA.
NOTE: See site for event link and details.
Where: UC Riverside Writers Week – Online Event
Date: Monday the 14th
Time: 3 pm – 8 pm (Day 2 of 6)
Address: UC Riverside – Online (see site)
Website: https://writersweek.ucr.edu/schedule22
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Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Virtual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: Stories and Ideas 2021 – Online Fiction Event
Join the 26th Anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, again offered virtually, from April 17 through April 20! Many literary events will be offered, and tickets are FREE!
LA Times’ Main Stage Event features Richard Thompson, in conversation with RJ Smith, who will present and discuss his memoir, Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975.
Richard Thompson is aninternational and longtime beloved musical legend, known for his brilliant songwriting, his extraordinary guitar playing, and his haunting voice. In this long-awaited memoir the British folk musician takes us back to the 1960s, a period of great change and creativity—both for him and the world at large. Thompson is the author of Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice, 1967-1975.
RJ Smith has been a senior editor at Los Angeles Magazine. a contributor to Blender, a columnist for Village Voice, a staff writer for Spin, and a writer for many journals, His book, The One: The Life and Music of James Brown, was among the New York Times’ “One Hundred Notable Books of 2012.” He is the interviewer for this event.
NOTE: The bookseller for this event is Skylight Bookstore.
Where: Los Angeles Times – Online events (see details & tickets available at Eventbrite link)
Date: Monday the 19th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Website: https://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/project/2021-event-richard-thompson/
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Another busy week of literary events in L.Á. Workshops, open mics, book clubs, readings, a kids events or two. catch Tod Goldberg discusses his new book of short stories The Low Desert: Gangster Stories via Skylight or poet Kevin Young via USC Visions and Voices. Or read a poem or two at the Definitive Soapbox and other open mics this week. Get to your computer L.Á. and support your local literary community. #losangelesliterature Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 02/22/21 – 02/28/21
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 8th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/priyanka-chopra-jonas/
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Behind the Book: Blake Hill-Saya via CalTechLive, Beckman Auditorium– Online Event
Join author Blake Hill-Saya for a discussion of her biography of her great-great grandfather, Arron McDuffie Moore: An African American Physician, Educator and Founder of Durham’s Black Wall Street, in this new CalTech Behind the Book event. The author will be interviewed by Monique Thomas, Program Coordinator in the CalTech Center for Inclusion & Diversity.
Blake Hill-Saya is a classical musician and creative writer living in Los Angeles. Born the biracial child of two literature professors, she is the CEO of Tenacity Communications in Los Angeles.
This new series presents conversations with authors who explore the intersection of arts, science, and society through the lens of their family histories. Behind the Book events are free and open to the public. Vroman’s Bookstore is a partner for the series and has copies of the books available for purchase.
Where: CalTechLive – Behind the Book – Online event (see site)
Date: Monday the 1st
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/400571634378851
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