Literary events this week include the annual L.A. Zine Fest at the Broad Museum Saturday and Sunday 11 am – 5 pm. There is also the full range of other literary events. Local Writers featuring this week include: Mariano Zaro, Jesenia Chavez, Yazmenne Archer, David A. Romero and Philosophy, among others. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 2/24/25 – 3/02/25
Plenty of literary events this week including Lit Lit 2024, the Little Literary Fair on November 2nd and Beyond Baroque’s yearly fundraiser “The Beyond Gala Event.” Local writers reading this week include: Bryn Wickerd, Suhasini Yeeda, Shonda Buchanan and Viet Thanh Nguyen, among others. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 10/28/24 – 11/03/24
By Dorany Pineda
FROM: Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Review of books was conceived more than a decade ago during a dark period for the print literary ecosystem.
Continue reading “New Yorkers scoffed. 10 Years Later, the Los Angeles Review of Books is a Cultural Force”By Eisa Nefertari Ulen
FROM: LARB
Award-winning poet Shonda Buchanan honors multiple literary traditions in her breathtaking new memoir, Black Indian. An educator, freelance writer, and literary editor, Buchanan is a culture worker with deep, decades-long engagement in communities of color. Her work honors the complexity and diversity of these Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities. At once Indigenous, Black Female, Speculative, Feminist, Womanist, Urban, Southern Gothic, and counter to the Tragic Mulatto stereotype in American literature, stage, and film, Black Indian is a quintessentially American narrative.
Continue reading “Locs in the Sweat Lodge: On Shonda Buchanan’s “Black Indian””
By Michael Schaub
FROM: L.A. Times
The Los Angeles Review of Books and Hauser & Wirth Publishers announced the panelists who will discuss literature, art and activism at LitLit, the Little Literary Fair, which will debut this weekend in L.A.’s Downtown Arts District. The city’s newest book festival, to be held at the Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles arts complex, will host four panels on July 20 and 21 as part of its programming, which will also include more than 20 exhibitors from L.A. and other cities on the West Coast.
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!”
Continue reading “Invisible No More: How “Fade Into You” Reflects the L.A. Chicanx Experience”
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