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Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 04/19/21 – 04/25/21

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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Los Angeles Literature Events: 04/05/21 – 04/11/21

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Monday Funday: April Poetry Month – LAPL Online Kids Event       

You can win a free poetry book when you join us for Monday Funday, celebrating National Poetry Month!

We’ll do Mad Libs, solve riddles, and experiment with writing our own poems. Please have your paper and pencils ready.

NOTE: Details, registration, and link at site.

Where: Los Angeles Public Library – Online Event

Date: Monday the 5th                                                

Time:  4 pm – 5 pm   

Address: Online event (see site)       

Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/monday-funday-april   

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Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 03/29/21 – 04/04/21

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Shannon Kenny Carbonell & All Is Not Lost via Chevalier’s Bookstore – Virtual Crowdcast Event 

Join author Shannon Kenny Carbonell, in conversation with Nestor Carbonell,to hear her discuss her book, All Is Not Lost.

Shannon Kenny Carbonell’s book, All Is Not Lost, is the story of what happened when one woman set aside a lifelong dream in favor of her kids, only to find herself battling her own ego and unfulfilled ambition. When her family relocated to Oahu, Hawaii during the shooting of the TV show LOST, she found herself as lost as the characters/survivors, and find a way to reconcile her growing feeling of failure and sudden loss of herself, This is her journey.

NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.

Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Crowdcast Event  

Date: Monday the 29th                                              

Time:  7 pm – 8 pm               

Address: Online event (see site)       

Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/shannon-kenny-carbonell    

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Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 03/22/21 – 03/28/21

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Denise Hamilton & Contributors & Speculative Los Angeles via Beverly Hills Public Library, BHPL – Virtual Event                                                              

Editor and author Denise Hamilton, with contributors Francesca Lia Block, Lisa Morton, and Luis J. Rodriguez, will presents selections of their new work from the debut title in a new city-based anthology series, Speculative Los Angeles.

L.A. native Denise Hamilton is the author of seven crime novels, and is editor of Speculative Los Angeles (2021), She is editor of the bestselling Los Angeles Noir 2, and is a former LA Times journalist. Her next novel is a work of speculative fiction set in Los Angeles.

Francesca Lia Block is the author of more than 25 acclaimed and widely translated books, as well as short stories, essays and poems. She lives, writes, and teaches creative writing in Los Angeles.

Lisa Morton is a screenwriter, author of nonfiction books, and prose writer, and a six-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award. She is the author of four novels, and over 150 short stories.

Luis J. Rodriguez has published 16 books of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, children’s books and essays. Best-known for his memoir Always Running, he has also been a print and radio journalist, written plays and movie scripts, and worked as a script consultant on three TV shows. He served as Los Angeles’s official Poet Laureate for two terms.

NOTE: Details and Zoom link instructions available at event link.

Where: BHPL – Online Zoom Event           

Date: Monday the 22nd                                              

Time:  6 pm                           

Address: Online event (see site)       

Website:   https://www.beverlyhills.org/cbhfiles/storage/files/19881747621935143177/SpeculativeLA2.0.pdf

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Los Angeles Literature Events: 03/15/21 – 03/21/21

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Women’s History Month: Tessa Boase & Etta Lemon: The Woman Who Saved the Birds via The Ebell of Los Angeles – Virtual Event                                 

Author Tessa Boase will present and discuss her book, Etta Lemon: The Woman Who Saved the Birds, in England as she tells the intriguing story about woman’s love affair with plumes. For fifty years Etta Lemon was the driving force behind the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and where she led in 1889, the Audubon Society would follow author and former investigative journalist Boase will bring to life the untold story of women, birds, hats—and votes.

NOTE: Details at event link

Where: The Ebell – Online Event     

Date: Monday the 15th                                              

Time:  12 pm                         

Address: Online event (see site)       

Website: http://facebook.com/events/817217392241006      

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Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 03/08/21 – 03/14/21

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Lesley Tellez & Eat Mexico via La Plaza de Cultura y Artes – Virtual Event   

Join us on Zoom and FB Live as author Lesley Tellez presents her book, Eat Mexico: Recipes from Mexico City’s Streets, Markets and Fondas, and demonstrates how to make Peneques, a traditional Mexico City recipe that dates to the 19th century.

NOTE: Details available at event link.

Where: La Plaza de Cultura y Artes– Online Event 

Date: Monday the 8th                                              

Time:  3 pm                           

Address: Online event (see site)       

Website:   https://www.facebook.com/events/129956188996703

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Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 03/01/21 – 03/07/21

Another busy week of literary events in L.Á. Workshops, open mics, book clubs, readings, a kids events or two. Local writers reading this week are: on Thursday local poet Richard Ferguson and local writer Lynell George. Get to your computer L,Á. and support your local literary community! Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 03/01/21 – 03/07/21

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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 8th                                                                          

Time: 6 pm                                                                               

Address:  Online event (see site)      

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

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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 6/22/20 – 6/28/20

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

UCLA-Writing-Project-logoUCLA WP Writers Project Teachers Event – Online

UCLA Writing Project presents: Launching Writer’s Workshop (Grades Pre-K – 6th), and online event held for five “packed” days, June 22 – June 26.

We’ll immerse ourselves in the nitty-gritty of Writer’s Workshop: helping students generate topics, constructing pointed and powerful mini-lessons, incorporating mentor texts, responding to young writers, and dabbling in publishing and celebration options, too. All will learn the experience being a writer in a workshop classroom. (May be eligible for LAUSD PD hours)

NOTE: RSVP at website link, to see costs and details.

Where: Online event (Register in advance)

Dates: Monday the 22nd at 9am – Friday the 26th at 2pm

Time: 9 am – 2 pm

Address: Online event

Website: https://facebook.com/event/546825142692698/

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