By Vera Casaneda
FROM: TimesOC
When author Sarah Rafael García’s LibroMobile began taking up space in a Santa Ana back alley off 4th and Spurgeon streets, the purpose was to cultivate diversity through books. The past year has been about how to take up space online to survive.
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Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
LiveTalks Presents: Robert Putmam & Shaylyn Romney Garrett & The Upswing via LiveTalks LA – Online Event
In their new book, The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again, Robert Putman & Shaylyn Romney Garrett, in conversation with Yancy Sritckler, will discuss how we have gone from an individualistic ”I” society (in the Guilded Age) to a more communitarian “We” society and then back again, and how we can learn from that experience to become a more unified, stronger nation.
NOTE: See site for costs and further details.
Where: LiveTalks LA – Online Event (see site for link)
Date: Monday the 14th
Time: 6 pm
Address: LiveTalks LA – Online event
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1644723775701803/ or https://livetalksla.org/events/robertputnam/
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events: 12/14/20 – 12/20/20”By Brian Dunlap
The other day, LitFest Pasadena posted the fillowing press release on its Facebook page. If there is more information regarding this year’s LitFest, I’ll post it on Los Angeles Literature.
By Nancy Lynée Woo
FROM: Long Beach Post
If you haven’t caught it yet, there’s a storytelling wave barreling through our city, one that’s been surging and swelling for more than a decade. Though I’m a poet and tend to be too distracted by shiny metaphors to bother with linear narrative, the storytelling scene in Long Beach is definitely worth caring about.
Continue reading “Elinor’s ‘Riveted’ Joins Long Beach Storytelling Wave Waiting For You To Drop In”
By Melissa Ximena Golebiowski
FROM: Lit Hub
The door of Los Angeles’ newest bookstore is propped open on a quiet section of Hollywood Boulevard, the front window displaying books on a handmade wooden bookshelf. Inside the front room, you’ll find more books and merchandise below a neon light thought bubble and a sign that reads, “I still haven’t figured out all the people I am.” The staff is friendly, warm and eager to listen. In the back room, separated by curtains, art hangs on the yellow walls. The large space is waiting to be used by Not a Cult, an independent publisher turned bookstore.
Book Writers Group at Robertson Branch Library, LAPL
The Book Writers Group meets every first Monday of the month at the Robertson Branch Library. Are you writing a book and looking for feedback? Need deadlines to help you reach your writing goals? Then this is the group for you!
For each meeting, please bring 5-10 double-spaced pages of writing to share with the group. Every member will have time to present his/her writing and receive constructive feedback.
Depending on the size of the group, each person will receive 10-15 minutes of time to share and receive feedback.
Where: Robertson Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 2nd
Time: 11 am
Address: 1719 S. Robertson Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-writers-group
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events 12/02/19 – 12/08/19”
Michael Connelly & The Night Fire at L.A. Times Book Club, Ricardo Montalban Theatre
The Los Angeles Times Book Club welcomes bestselling author Michael Connelly, who will present and sign his new book, The Night Fire, in which Los Angeles Detectives Harry Bosch and Renee Ballard team up on an unsolved case that obsessed Bosch’s longtime mentor.
Connelly is also the executive producer of Bosch, the Amazon series based on the Harry Bosch book series, which is now filming season 6. Prior to his successful writing and publishing career, he was a journalist and reported for the L.A Times.
NOTE: This is a ticketed event so check website for details.
Where: Ricardo Montalban Theatre (with L.A. Times Book Club)
Date: Monday the 21st
Time: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 1615 Vine St., Los Angeles, CA 90028
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1602268483231442
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events 10/21/19 – 10/27/19”
Deepak Chopra & Meta-Human at El Segundo Performing Arts Center (with Pages Bookstore)
Join us for an evening with bestselling author Deepak Chopra, who will present and sign his new book, Meta-Human: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential, which addresses how to venture beyond daily living and experience heightened states of awareness. He unlocks the secrets to moving beyond our present limitations to access a field of infinite possibilities. To do this, we must become “metahuman.”
NOTE: This is a ticketed event so check website for details.
Where: El Segundo Performing Arts Center (with Pages bookstore)
Date: Monday the 14th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 640 Main St., El Segundo, CA 90245
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/evening-deepak-chopra
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events 10/14/19 – 10/20/19”
Samantha Power & The Education of an Idealist at USC’s Bovard Auditorium
In collaboration with Visions and Voices and other campus organizations, USC’s Speakers Committee presents acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winning author, former US Ambassador to the UN and Obama cabinet member, Samantha Power, who will discuss her new memoir, The Education of an Idealist, which chronicles her transition from outside activist to government insider and explores the impact one person can have on the world.
NOTE: This ticketed event is free to USC students and faculty and their guests, so check website for details.
Where: Bovard Auditorium, USC
Date: Tuesday the 8th
Time: 6:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: 3551 Trousdale Pkwy., Los Angeles, CA 90089
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/241957690065378
Continue reading “Los Angeles Literature Events 10/07/19 – 10/13/19”
Distinguished Author Series: Patty Seyburn & Andrew Tonkavich at Laguna College of Art + Design
The Laguna College of Art + Design’s (LCAD) Leslie Power Library Presents: Distinguished Authors Lecture Series, with:
Patty Seyburn has previously published five collections of poems, her most recent release being Threshold Delivery (Finishing line Press 2019). She is a proud professor at CSU Long Beach.
Andrew Tonkavich edits the West Coast literary magazine, Santa Monica Review, and hosts Bibliocracy, a weekly books show on listener-supported Pacifica Radio’s KPFK (90.7) in Southern California. He is a regular contributor to the OC Weekly and is co-editor of Orange County: A Literary Field Guide (Hey Day 2017). He teaches composition at UC Irvine.
NOTE: Free Admission / Public Invited
Where: Laguna College of Art + Design
Date: Monday the 30th
Time: 6:30 pm – 9 pm
Address: 2222 Laguna Canyon Rd., Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Website: https://facebook.com/events/2350061018589583
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