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L.A. Literary History

How to Float: A Poet, The Woman’s Building and Beyond Baroque

Los Angeles Literature’s newest literary history essay by Pam Ward.

Los Ángeles has been home to many powerful poets and writers, native born and transplants. They’ve read on stages, both makeshift and otherwise, from The Valley to Beyond Baroque, to Downtown and Chinatown to The Eastside, at Cafe con Libros in Pomona to LibroMobile in Santa Ana and the Ugly Mug in Orange, to long gone spots like Redondo Poets, Papa Bach Bookstore and 5th Street Dicks in Leimert Park and everywhere in-between. L,Á. native Pam Ward, author of Want Some Get Some, Mad Girls Burn Slow and the poetry collection Between Good Men & No Man At All, takes readers back to her first decade in the literary community, between the mid-80s to the mid-90s, remembering how the poets got down and how poetry saved lives.
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Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 03/21/22 – 03/27/22

NOTE: There Are Both Online and Virtual Events

World Literature Book Club: Story Selections via Central Library, LAPL – Online Event

Join us for a spirited discussion of the world’s best short stories! All selections are from The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story (New York, 2021) ed. John Freeman. This week’s selection is:

March 21: A Temporary Matter by Jhumpa Lahiri (1998)

NOTE: See site for event details and Zoom link.        

Where: West Valley Regional Branch Library, LAPL – Online event

Date: Monday the 21st

Time: 10 am

Address: LAPL – Online Event

Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/world-literature-book-club-28

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Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 11/08/21 – 11/14/21

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

Gina Shock, with Belinda Carlisle & James Duke Mason, & Made in Hollywood: All Access with the Go-Gos via Book Soup – Online Event

Join us to hear Go-Gos drummer Gina Shock, in conversation with Belinda Carlisle & James Duke Mason, present and discuss her book, Made in Hollywood: All Access with the Go-Gos.

The Go-Gos were the first all-female rock band to write their own songs, play their own instruments, and reach the top of the Billboard charts with their #1 album, Beauty and the Beat. Made in Hollywood is drummer Gina Shock’s personal account of the band, which includes a treasure trove of photos and memorabilia collected bver her 40-year career.

NOTE: See site for details.         

Where: Book Soup – Online Event

Date: Monday the 8th

Time: 3 pm

Address: Book Soup – Online Event

Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/gina-schock-conversation-belinda-carlisle-james-duke-mason-discusses-made-hollywood-all-access

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Los Angeles Literature Events: 09/13/21 – 09/19/21

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

Daniel Barban Levin, with Selina Fillinger, & Slonim Woods 9: A Memoir via Book Soup – Online Event

Join us to hear Danile Barban Levin, in conversation with actress and playwright Selina Fillinger, discuss his book, Slonim Woods 9: A Memoir.

In September 2010, a sophomore named Talia Ray asked her roommates at Sarah Lawrence College if her father could stay with them for a while. No one objected,

Talia’s father. Larry Ray, was just released from prison after three years for a custody dispute. He arrived from a communal house called Slonim Woods and stayed for the whole year.  Over time, the forceful and intense Ray convinced the young women he alone could help them “achieve clarity,” and eventually they moved to an apartment in Manhattan, beginning years of manipulation and abuse.

Danile Barban Levin was one of the original residents of Slonim Woods 9, and Ray coached him through a difficult break-up, slowly drawing him into his web. After two years of escalating physical, psychological, and sexual abuse, Daniel found the strength to break away.

In April 2019, a New York Magazine story, “The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence,” exposed Ray’s crimes to the world, and in February 2020 he was finally indicted on charges of extortion, sex trafficking, forced labor, and money laundering.

This brave, lyrical and redemptive memoir spans the two years Daniel Barban Levin spent in the grip of a megalomaniac, and reveals how a group of friends were led from a campus into a cult without the world even noticing.

NOTE: See Site for details and registration.

Where: Book Soup – Online Event

Date: Monday the 13th

Time: 6 pm

Address: Online (see site)

Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/daniel-barban-levin-conversation-selina-fillinger-discusses-slonim-woods-9-memoir

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Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 08/23/21 – 08/29/21

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

Benjamin Rosenbaum, with Cory Doctorow, & The Unraveling via Book Soup – Online Event

Join us to hear Benjamin Rosenbaum, in conversation with author Cory Doctorow, discuss his book, The Unraveling.

In the distant future, somewhere in the galaxy, a world has evolved where each person has multiple bodies, cybernetics has abolished privacy, and individual and family success are reliant upon instantaneous evaluations of how well each family member conforms to the rigid social system. Then two new friends of two gendered types unintentionally wind up at the center of a scandalous art spectacle, which turns into a multilayered Unraveling of society, and a test of personal crises having global significance.

NOTE: See Site for details and registration.

Where: Book Soup – Online Event

Date: Monday the 23rd             

Time: 6 pm

Address: Online (see site)

Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/benjamin-rosenbaum-conversation-cory-doctorow-discusses-unraveling

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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: 03/22/21 – 03/28/21

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Denise Hamilton & Contributors & Speculative Los Angeles via Beverly Hills Public Library, BHPL – Virtual Event                                                              

Editor and author Denise Hamilton, with contributors Francesca Lia Block, Lisa Morton, and Luis J. Rodriguez, will presents selections of their new work from the debut title in a new city-based anthology series, Speculative Los Angeles.

L.A. native Denise Hamilton is the author of seven crime novels, and is editor of Speculative Los Angeles (2021), She is editor of the bestselling Los Angeles Noir 2, and is a former LA Times journalist. Her next novel is a work of speculative fiction set in Los Angeles.

Francesca Lia Block is the author of more than 25 acclaimed and widely translated books, as well as short stories, essays and poems. She lives, writes, and teaches creative writing in Los Angeles.

Lisa Morton is a screenwriter, author of nonfiction books, and prose writer, and a six-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award. She is the author of four novels, and over 150 short stories.

Luis J. Rodriguez has published 16 books of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, children’s books and essays. Best-known for his memoir Always Running, he has also been a print and radio journalist, written plays and movie scripts, and worked as a script consultant on three TV shows. He served as Los Angeles’s official Poet Laureate for two terms.

NOTE: Details and Zoom link instructions available at event link.

Where: BHPL – Online Zoom Event           

Date: Monday the 22nd                                              

Time:  6 pm                           

Address: Online event (see site)       

Website:   https://www.beverlyhills.org/cbhfiles/storage/files/19881747621935143177/SpeculativeLA2.0.pdf

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Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 03/15/21 – 03/21/21

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Women’s History Month: Tessa Boase & Etta Lemon: The Woman Who Saved the Birds via The Ebell of Los Angeles – Virtual Event                                 

Author Tessa Boase will present and discuss her book, Etta Lemon: The Woman Who Saved the Birds, in England as she tells the intriguing story about woman’s love affair with plumes. For fifty years Etta Lemon was the driving force behind the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and where she led in 1889, the Audubon Society would follow author and former investigative journalist Boase will bring to life the untold story of women, birds, hats—and votes.

NOTE: Details at event link

Where: The Ebell – Online Event     

Date: Monday the 15th                                              

Time:  12 pm                         

Address: Online event (see site)       

Website: http://facebook.com/events/817217392241006      

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