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Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 10/11/21 – 10/17/21

Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Dennis Cooper & I Wished via Skylight Bookstore – Online Event

Dennis Cooper will present I Wished, in which the author writes about George Miles, love, loss, addiction, suicide, and how fiction can capture these things, and how it also fails to capture them. .

I Wished is the author’s first novel in ten years, and it revisits the George Miles Cycle of acclaimed novels and the inspiration for the Cycle (Closer, Frisk, Try, Guide, and Period). This is his masterwork, and is his most raw, personal, and haunted book of all.

NOTE: See site for book purchase & event details.         

Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Event

Date: Monday the 11th

Time: 12 pm

Address: Online (see site)

Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event

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Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 09/06/21 – 09/12/21

Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Shannon Hale & LeUyen Pham & Friends Forever at Once Upon a Time Bookstore – In-Person Kids Event

Join us to meet children’s authors Shannon Haleand and LeUyen Pham, as they present their book, Friends Forever.

Shannon Haleand is the New York Times best-selling author of over thirty children’s and young adult novels, including graphic novel memoirs Real Friends and Best Friends, and multiple award winners The Goose Girl, Book of a Thousand Days, and Newbery Honor recipient Princess Academy.

LeUyen Pham is a children’s book illustrator and author. She has illustrated and written more than 80 books. In 2020, she won a Caldecott Honor for her illustrations in the book Bear Came Along.

This is a meet and greet event to sign books and visit with fans of all ages. Graphic novel readers will enjoy the third book in the Friendship series, and picture book readers will be thrilled with the cuteness of Itty-Bitty Kitty-Corn.

NOTE: See site for details and guidelines for this event.     

Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore – In-Person Kids Event

Date: Monday the 6th                         

Time: 11 am

Where: 2207 Honolulu Ave., Montrose, CA 91020

Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/friends-forever

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Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 07/26/21 – 08/01/21

Another busy week in the Los Ángeles literary community, with in-person and virtual events. In=person events are at local bookstores, Re/Arte in Boyle Heights, Sims Library of Poetry in South Central. etc. Some local writers reading this week: poet Daniel Jose Ruiz, Brendan Constantine, Tommy Domino, V. Kali, Hiram Sims, October BLU and more. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 07/26/21 – 08/01/21

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Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 07/12/21 – 07/18/21

Many/Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Treehouse Event: Jamal Yogis & Matthew Allen & Mop Rides the Waves of Change via Skylight Books & LA Public Library –  Online Kids Event   

Skylight Treehouse and the LA Public Library present an interactive kids event celebrating author Jamal Yogis and illustrator Matthew Allen’s new picture book, Mop Rides the Waves of Change. This event is presented in partnership with the band Punk Rock Marthas.

The second in the Mop Rides series finds surfer kid Mop and his friends in a quest to save the ocean with mindfulness, surfing, and a band—The Coconut Heads.

Where: Skylight Bookstore Online Kids Event (see site)

Date: Monday the 12th            

Time: 11 am

Address: Skyllight Books Online 9see site)

Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/treehouse-and-la-public-library-present-jaimal-yogis-author-mop-rides-waves-change-and

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Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 06/28/21 – 07/04/21

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Howard Paar, with Denice Hamilton, & Top Rankin’: A Punk/Ska Noir Novel via Book Soup – Online Event

Author Howard Paar, in conversation with author Denise Hamilton, will present and discuss his book, Top Rankin’: A Punk/Ska Noir Novel.

Top Rankin’ captures the spirit of LA in 1980, and is populated with real-life characters from the music world in Los Angeles, New York and London, when everything’s changing, from the decadent, diverse punk rock scene to the violent, hard-core scene. Although club owner James Dual wants no part of that, his efforts are thwarted from every direction.

NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.     

Where: Book Soup – Online Crowdcast event

Date: Monday the 28th                       

Time: 6 pm 

Where: Online event

Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/howard-parr-conversation-denise-hamilton-discusses-top-rankin%E2%80%99-punkska-noir-novel

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Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 06/07/21 – 06/13/21

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Terry Miles, with Cory Doctorow, & Rabbits via Book Soup – Online Event

Author Terry Miles, in conversation with author Cory Doctorow, will present and discuss his new book, Rabbits.

Terry Miles’s new book depicts how a deadly underground game might just be altering reality itself in this new adventure set in the world of the hit Rabbits podcast. Rabbits is a mysterious alternate reality game so vast it uses the entire world as its canvas. Since the game started in 1959, ten iterations have appeared and nine winners declared. The deeper you get, the more dangerous the game becomes, and when K—a Rabbits obsessive—enters the eleventh round, the fate of the entire universe is at stake.

NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.     

Where: Book Soup – Online Crowdcast event

Date: Monday the 7th                        

Time: 6 pm 

Where: Online event

Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/terry-miles-conversation-cory-doctorow-discusses-rabbits

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Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 05/31/21 – 06/06/21

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Monday Night Fiction Workshop at Beyond Baroque – Zoom Online   

The free Monday Night Fiction Workshop led by Raquel Baker is a community writing workshop in which participants are asked to bring copies of 2-3 pages of fiction to read, and for critique and discussion. Registration is required.

Raquel Baker earned a PhD in English Literary Studies from the University of Iowa and an MFA in Creative Writing form Mills College. She is currently Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Studies and Transnational Literatures at CSU Channel Islands. She also has published poetry and non-fiction, and done readings with the Ventura Poetry Project.

Where: Beyond Baroque online (tickets at Eventbrite)

Date: Monday the 31st              

Time: 7:30pm – 10 pm

Address: Zoom Online

Website: https://beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops.html

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Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 05/17/21 – 05/23/21

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Brad Stone, with Nick Bilton, & Amazon Unbound via Live Talks LA – Online Event  

Author and Bloomberg News writer Brad Stone, in conversation with Nick Bilton, will discuss his new book, Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire.

Amazon Unbound is an unvarnished picture of Amazon’s unprecedented growth, and its billionaire founder Jeff Bezos, revealing the most important business story of our time.  Brad Stone is also the author of The Everything Store, Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon and The upstarts: Uber, Airbnb, and the Battle for the New Silicon Valley.

Almost ten years ago the author captured the rise of Amazon, an internet pioneer quietly changing the way we shop online. Ever since, Amazon has expanded exponentially, inventing novel products, acquiring and diversifying into new a areas and disrupting countless industries while its valuation has soared to over a  trillion dollars, with an empire that spans the globe.  This book also probes the evolution of Bezos himself, an unvarnished portrait of a man and company we couldn’t imagine modern life without.

NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this ticketed event.     

Where: LiveTalks LA – Online event

Date: Monday the 17th    

Time: 6 pm 

Address: Online event

Website:  https://livetalksla.org/events/brad-stone-with-nick-bilton/

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Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 05/03/21 – 05/09/21

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Wesley Brown, with Douglas Kearney, & Tragic Magic via Skylight Books – Online Event   

Wesley Brown, in conversation with poet Douglas Kearney, will read and discuss his book, Tragic Magic.

Wesley Brown is the author of three novels, a collection of short stories, Dance of the Infidels, and four produced plays. Tragic Magic is the story of Melvin Ellington, a.k.a. Mouth, a Black, twenty-something ex-college radical who has just been released from a five-year prison stretch after being a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War. The author structures this first person tale around Ellington’s first day on the outside, haunted by a past that drives him to make sense of choices leading up to this day.

Originally published in 1978, and edited by Toni Morrison during her time at Random House, this Of the Diaspora edition of Tragic Magic features a new introduction by author Wesley Brown.

NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.     

Where: Skylight Books – Online event

Date: Monday the 3rd    

Time: 4:30 pm                           

Address: Online event

Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-wesley-brown-reads-tragic-magic-douglas-kearney

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Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 04/26/21 – 05/02/21

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Speaker Series: Meet Lynne Thompson, New Poet Laureate of Los Angelesvia The Ebell – Online Event 

Lynne Thompson, since being appointed our new Poet Laureate in 2021 by Mayor Eric Garcetti, will share her path to this two year appointment, and discuss her writing and literary works.

Thompson is the author of three books of poetry: Start with a Small Guitar, Beg No Pardon, and Fretwork. She serves on the boards of Cave Canem and the Los Angeles Review of Books, and is chair of the Scripps College Board of Trustees. She has received numerous awards, and other recent work is forthcoming in New York Quarterly, New England Review, the 202 Best American Poetry, among others.

NOTE: See site for details, and to register for this free event.     

Where: The Ebell – Online event

Date: Monday the 26th                      

Time: 12 pm                              

Address: Online event

Website:  https://www.facebook.com/events/130483039055644

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