Another busy week full of literary events: readings, open mics, book clubs and workshops all throughout the L.Á. area. There is even a few YA and teen events. Local writers reading this week are: Linda Ravenswood, Xochitl-Julissa Bermejo, Vanessa Diaz, Jose Hernandez Diaz, Gustavo Hernandez, Marvinlouis Dorsey and William P. Cushing, among others. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 01/23/23 – 01/29/23
A very busy week full of literary events: readings, open mics, book clubs and workshops all throughout the L.Á. area. There is even a few kids events. Local writers reading this week are: poets Michael C. Ford, Richard Modiano, Suzanne Lummis, novelists Allie Rowbottom, Max Evans, poets William Archila, Cynthia Guardado and Brian Dunlap, among others. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 01/16/23 – 01/22/23
The first list of weekly events of the year. There are readings, open mics, book clubs and workshops from Pomona to Venice to Orange and Santa Ana to Long Beach to everywhere in-between. There is even a few YA and kids events. Local writers reading this week are: poet Alma Rosa Rivera, novelist Jordan Harper, spoken word poet Christian Perfas “Soulstuf,” novelist Janet Fitch, poet Patty Chavez and poet Carlos Ornelas, among others. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 01/09/23 – 01/15/23
Sun Valley Book Club: Cloud Cuckoo Land via Sun Valley Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
This book club will continue discussing Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr.
The author’s third novel is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril who find resilience, hope—and a book. In Cloud Cuckoo Land, Doerr has created a magnificent tapestry of times and places that reflect our vast interconnectedness—with other species, with each other, with those who lived before us, and with those who will be here after we’re gone.
Please email ebarrera@lapl.org for the Google Meet link and additional information.
NOTE: See site for link and details.
Where: Sun Valley Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 12th
Time: 4:45 pm – 5:30 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/sun-valley-book-club
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World Literature Book Club: Weekly Discussions of Short Stories via West Valley Regional Library, LAPL – Online Event
This book club is a spirited and engaging discussion of the world’s best short stories! All selections are from Points of View: An Anthology of Short Stories (New York, 1995) ed. James Moffett and Kenneth R. McElheny. This month’s selections are:
December 5: A Telephone Call by Dorothy Parker
December 12: I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olson
December 19: Straight Pool by John O’Hara
Meetings are every Monday morning (excluding holidays).
For the Zoom link, please e-mail wvally@lapl.org with “World Literature” in the subject line.
NOTE: See site for link. Repeats via Woodland Hills Branch Library at 2pm.
Where: West Valley Regional Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 5th
Time: 10 am
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/world-literature-book-club-9
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As we are now in the holiday season, literary L.Á. is slowly winding down for the year. This week however, there are still open mics, readings, book clubs, workshops and a teen event. From Orange County to Long Beach, to the Westside, The Valley, the Eastside and beyond. Local Writers reading this week are: Brian Dunlap, Christian Lozada, Cynthia Guardado, Brian Sonia-Wallace, Jesse Hoffman, Benin Lemus, Rocio Carlos and Pete Hsu, among others. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 11/28/22 – 12/04/22
MOIRA First Press Reading Series & Chloe Martinez at Woodbury University – In-Person Event
The olive is among the oldest known cultivated trees in the world, grown before the written language was invented. In California, there are many isolated trees or fragments of old groves, such as the trees that still stand on the Woodbury campus. Traditionally, after harvest, oil was pressed in screw or hydraulic presses. The paste was subjected to increasingly high pressures with subsequent degradation in the flavor of the oil. Thus, the “first press” of oil was considered the most flavorful and desirable. ~ the Olive Oil Source, 2018.
Chloe Martinez will be the featured guest at this second event in this year’s series. is a poet and a scholar of South Asian religions. She is the author of the collection Ten Thousand Selves (The Word Works) and the chapbook Corner Shrine (Backbone Press). Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, POETRY, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Beloit Poetry Journal and elsewhere. She works at Claremont McKenna College. See more at www.chloeAVmartinez.com.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines and details.
Where: Woodbury University
Date: Monday the 14th
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm
Address: 7500 N. Glenoaks Blvd., Burbank, CA 91504
Website: https://www.moriaonline.com/first-press-reading-series
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Trick or Treat Event at Main Library, SMPL – In-Person Kids & Teens Event
Arrive in your Halloween costume at the library’s youth services desk for something fun and frightening! For kids and teens ages 0-17.
NOTE: See site for guidelines, and details.
Where: Main Library, SMPL
Date: Monday the 31st
Time: 10 am – 5 pm
Address: 601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90401
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=34301
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Book Club Bonanza: Frightening Reads! & White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson via Central Library, LAPL – Online Teen Event
The Book Club Bonanza Book Club for Teens will host read-alikes and an activity for this month’s selection, White Smoke, by Tiffany D. Jackson.
In this chilling psychological thriller, Marigold is running from ghosts. The phantoms of her old life keep haunting her, but a move with her newly blended family from their small California beach town to the embattled Midwestern city of Cedarville might be the fresh start she needs. Her mom has accepted a new job with the Sterling Foundation that comes with a free house, one that Mari now has to share with her bratty ten-year-old stepsister, Piper.
The renovated picture-perfect home on Maple Street, sitting between dilapidated houses, surrounded by wary neighbors has its…secrets. That’s only half the problem. Cedarville has secrets too.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, link, and details.
Where: Central Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 17th
Time: 4:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-bonanza-frightening-reads
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Peter Merts & Ex Crucible: The Passion of Incarcerated Artists at Chevalier’s Bookstore – In-Person Event
Prison Arts collective will have an art auction and author and photographer Peter Merts will present and discuss Ex Crucible: The Passion of Incarcerated Artists. The photographs of Ex Crucible show incarcerated men and women creating artworks with a talent, passion, and authenticity that illuminate the humanity of the artists. These intimate photographs demonstrate the importance that creativity can have in these bleak, controlled spaces.
Peter Merts has been a photographer for 40 years, focusing on documentary, portrait, and fine arts projects. Peter has documented California’s Arts in Corrections program, both as a volunteer, and under contract with the California Arts Council. He has photographed in all 36 of California’s adult state prisons and serves on the advisory board of the Prison Arts Collective, a provider of prison arts programming. Peter co-published, with Dr. Larry Brewster, the book Paths of Discovery: Art Practice and Its Impact in California State Prisons (now in its 2nd edition); in 2022, he published a monograph of his prison arts work, Ex Crucible: The Passion of Incarcerated Artists (Daylight Books).
NOTE: See site for free tickets, guidelines, and details.
Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore
Date: Monday the 10th
Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: 133 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-auction-book-talk-ex-crucible-by-peter-merts-tickets-428745418087
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