Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 8/24/20 – 8/30/20

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Teens Speak Up Against Injustice: The Assignment via American Jewish University Online Event

Join us on Zoom to heat how a chance meeting in a bookstore propelled author Liza Wiemer to write her book, The Assignment, which explores how two teens found the courage to speak up against antisemitism and hatred.

NOTE: See site for details and ticket information.

Where: American Jewish University – Online event

Date: Monday the 24^th

Time: 4 pm – 4:45 pm

Address: Online event (see site)

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/398268867839936

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Brian DunlapAugust 24, 2020Leave a comment

Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events 8/17/20 – 8/23/20

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Japanese Storytime via Little Tokyo Branch Library Instagram Online – Kids Event

Join us on Little Tokyo Branch Library’s Instagram for Japanese Storytime for children, to enjoy books and activities, such as singing and learning origami, in Japanese.

Where: Little Tokyo Branch Library, LAPL Instagram online

Date: Monday the 17^th

Time: 10:30 pm

Address: Online event (see site)

Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/japanese-storytime

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Brian DunlapAugust 16, 2020Leave a comment

Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

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 10^th

Time: 6 pm

Address: Crowdcast Live

Website: https://booksoup.com/event/julian-e-zelizer-conversation-david-cross-discusses-burning-down-house-newt-gingrich

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Brian DunlapAugust 10, 2020August 10, 2020Leave a comment

Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

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

Brian DunlapAugust 3, 2020October 27, 2023Leave a comment

Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

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 27^th

Time: 6 pm – 7 pm

Address: Zoom online event (see site)

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/3100251813364003

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Brian DunlapJuly 27, 2020July 27, 2020Leave a comment

Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

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 13^th

Time: 10:30 am – 11 am

Address: Online event

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/697708884358392/

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Brian DunlapJuly 12, 2020July 22, 2020Leave a comment

Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

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 6^th

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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Brian DunlapJuly 6, 2020July 22, 2020Leave a comment

Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events 6/29/20 – 7/05/20

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Dig Deeper Virtual Storytime via South Pasadena Library Online – Kids Event

Our Children’s Librarians read stories, share finger-plays, songs and flannel-board stories, weekly through July 27^th. Each week’s event will be available for viewing starting at 10:30 am Monday, and will be available to view through Thursday of that week. For more information about the Summer Reading Program, visit the library website.

Where: South Pasadena Library Online (see event site)

Date: Monday the 29^th

Time: 10:30 am – 11 am

Address: Online event

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/697708884358392/

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Brian DunlapJune 28, 2020June 28, 2020Leave a comment

Interviews, Literary Long Beach

Contemporary Poetry Interview: Michelle Brittan Rosado in conversation with Genevieve Kaplan

FROM: Prism Review

pr-22-cover-661x992 Genevieve Kaplan: I met Michelle Brittan Rosado’s poems when she read from her just-released chapbook, Theory on Falling into a Reef (Anhinga Press, 2016), and I remember being so captivated by her work, which is precise, narrative, and moving as well as inventive and musical. Michelle’s poems tend to feel very located in our shared landscape of California, they make keen observations, and they speak to directly readers. When her full-length book, Why Can’t It Be Tenderness, was selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil for the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and published by University of Wisconsin Press, of course I wanted to talk with her more about it! Happily, Michelle, the PR poetry judge this year, agreed to offer insights into her poetic process and attentions. Read on:

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Brian DunlapJune 24, 2020June 24, 2020Leave a comment

Interviews

Like Bullets For Fascists: Q+A with Political Poet Matt Sedillo

By Viva Padilla
FROM: Dryland

Chicano revolutionary poet Matt Sedillo met up with Viva Padilla (proper masks were worn) in El Sereno this past weekend to catch up and talk about his newest poetry collection Mowing Leaves of Grass (published by FlowerSong Press). During this interview they drove around the Eastside. They came upon a squeaky clean Black Lives Matter/Defund the Police protest in Pasadena, boarded up and tagged “R.I.P. George Floyd” storefronts in the belly of high gentrification in Highland Park, and the homeless encampment at the Veteran’s Monument in El Sereno–a proper backdrop for the political insight Sedillo delivers like a gun-slinger in his book where American institutions rooted in white supremacy are dragged out by the hair and left on the side of the road to rot.