How Los Angeles Transformed American Literature
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Tag: Fiction
Reflections on Publishing My Twelfth Book, “How to Date a Flying Mexican: New and Collected Stories”
Los Ángeles writer, Daniel A. Olivas, reflects on his literary career as his twelfth book is set to release early next year. Continue reading Reflections on Publishing My Twelfth Book, “How to Date a Flying Mexican: New and Collected Stories”
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 31st
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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Los Angeles Literature Events 8/10/20 – 8/16/20
Los Angeles Literature Events 8/10/20 – 8/16/20
Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Julian E. Zelizer & Burning Down the House at Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Join author Julian E. Zelizer, in conversation with David Cross, to discuss his new non-fiction book, Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party.
When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, President Obama observed that Trump “is not an outlier; he is a culmination, a logical conclusion of the rhetoric and tactics of the Republican Party.” In this book the author pinpoints the moment when our country was set on a path to bitterly partisan and ruthless politics: an era ignited by Newt Gingrich and his allies in 1989. This is the story of how they created a new normal in Washington D.C.
NOTE: Details and ticket information available at website.
Where: Book Soup – Crowdcast Online Event
Date: Monday the 10th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Live
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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
Los Angeles Literature Events 7/27/20 – 8/02/20
Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
The Gathering Summer Book Club Event via Zoom Online
Welcome to The Gathering Summer Book club, an opportunity to read, reflect, and discuss some of the most significant Asian (American) Literatures. Please join us today as we discuss our next book, Unaccustomed Earth, by award-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri.
Where: Zoom online (see site)
Date: Monday the 27th
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Address: Zoom online event (see site)
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/3100251813364003
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Jean Kyoung Frazier Thinks Fiction Should Have More Hot Cheetos
The author of Pizza Girl talks about what she learned during her own wayward summer delivering pizzas, as well as the complexity of grief and the irresistibility of voyeurism.
FROM: Esquire
Pizza Girl, Jean Kyoung Frazier’s explosive debut novel, everything changes on a Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 p.m. Our nameless narrator is eighteen, pregnant, and feeling adrift as she stumbles through her days as a Los Angeles pizza delivery driver, all the while grieving the death of her alcoholic father and avoiding the smothering ministrations of her loving mother and boyfriend. When a suburban housewife named Jenny Hauser calls in with a peculiar order for a pepperoni and pickle pizza, Pizza Girl’s collision with Jenny sends her tailspinning into a psychosexual obsession with dangerous consequences.
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Los Angeles Literature Events 7/13/20 – 7/19/20
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. For more information about the Summer Reading Program, visit the library website.
Where: South Pasadena Library Online (see event site)
Date: Monday the 13th
Time: 10:30 am – 11 am
Address: Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/697708884358392/
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Los Angeles Literature Events 7/06/20 – 7/12/20
Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Bilingual Storytime / Hora de cuentos bilingue via Robert Louis Stevenson Branch Library Instagram Online – Kids Event
Join us on Robert Louis Stevenson Branch Library’s Instagram for Bilingual Storytime for children, to enjoy stories, rhymes, and songs in Spanish and English.
Where: Robert Louis Stevenson Branch Library, LAPL Instagram online
Date: Monday the 6th
Time: 3 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/bilingual=storytimela-hora-de-cuentas-binlingue
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The Novel That Shows Us How to Face Our Past to Change Our Future
Lessons for current activists and allies from Nina Revoyr’s 2003 literary crime novel “Southland”
By Vallarie Wallace
FROM: Electrict Literature
After several grueling hours of protesting against systemic injustice (no one can prepare you for long hours on your feet, long hours screaming for recognition of your humanity), we stood with our signs tucked safely under our arms as the organizer introduced some parting words. The speaker was an older Black man, the weariness of the movement evident in his face and in the way he leaned against a streetlamp for support. But his passion was clear in his speech as he declared that we were not the first to fight for our rights, and we will not be the last: he was protesting in the streets back in his early adulthood, the same way we were today. It was then that I looked at the faces of the people around me; some couldn’t be older than sixteen, and some as old as the speaker, or older. It was in the aftermath of being surrounded by these people, all aligned in our goal for the abolishment of the systemic injustices that cause Black oppression, that Nina Revoyr’s literary crime novel Southland came to mind.
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