The Los Angeles Times announced the finalist for their annual book prizes. Winners will be announced the night before the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Continue reading Rachel Howzell Hall, George Saunders, James Hannaham Among L.A. Times Book Prize Finalists
By Dorany Pineda
FROM: Los Angeles Times
The finalists for the 42nd Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced today, with Claire Vaye Watkins, Joy Williams, Michael Connelly and Martín Espada among the nominees for the annual literary awards.
Continue reading “Mariana Enriquez, Michael Connelly, S.A. Cosby Among LA Times Book Prize Finalists”
Los Angeles Literature spotlights the literary history of former Pulitzer Prize winning, Los Angeles Times sportswriter, Jim Murray. He captured the sports stories of L.Á. for 37 years. Continue reading Literary History: Jim Murray, Literary Sportswriter
The winning authors were honored in a virtual ceremony hosted by Times Book Editor Boris Kachka
FROM: Los Angeles Times
Tonight, the 41st annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were awarded in a livestreamed virtual ceremony. Hosted by Times Book Editor Boris Kachka, the literary awards recognized 56 remarkable works in 12 categories, championing new voices and celebrating the highest quality of writing.
Continue reading “L.A. Times 41st Book Prizes Winners Announced”
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 25th 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 20th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: Online events (see site)
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Evnts: 10/19/20 – 10/25/20”
By PICO IYER
FROM: The L.A. Times
Los Angeles is the city without a heart, we used to hear when I was growing up in England, few of us having come within 5,000 miles of California. Seventy-eight school districts in search of a center, a desert car culture in which every last soul is locked inside her own four doors, a teenage wasteland: The clichés came streaming in on us as we stood in the rain at bus stops in chilly Oxford, on our way to another unheated basement.
Continue reading “How Pico Iyer found L.A.’s Beating Heart at the L.A. Times Festival of Books”
by Nardine Saad
FROM: The L.A. Times
The 25th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Stories & Ideas has completed its table of contents for the literary celebration’s 2020 pandemic edition.
Continue reading “First-ever virtual L.A. Times Festival of Books Lineup Includes Natalie Portman, Jerry Brown”By Margaret Wappler
FROM: L.A. Times
Ronan Farrow, Emily Bazelon, Attica Locke, Michael Connelly and Colson Whitehead are among the finalists for the 40th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes announced Wednesday, with crime novelist Walter Mosley named as the winner of the 2019 Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement.
By Steve Salvidar
FROM: Los Angeles Times
Author and former Los Angeles poet laureate Luis J. Rodriguez says he’s been visiting California’s prisons for more than 40 years since leaving his own gang youth behind and losing 25 friends to drugs and street violence.
Continue reading “Luis J. Rodriguez On Changing Lives Through Poetry”
“Slouching Towards Los Angeles” is a collection about Joan Didion’s claim on California and its writers. 20 of the books 25 contributors are women. Continue reading Review: Writing in Didion’s Honor — And Her Shadow
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