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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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Literary Long Beach, Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 07/05/21 – 07/11/21

Another busy week in Los Ángeles literature. More and more events are returning to in person gatherings. Check the list to find out which events are in person. Also, local authors featuring this week are: Yesika Salgado, Janet Fitch and Steph Cha is in conversation with Rosecrans Baldwin, among others. Continue reading Los Angeles Literature Events: 07/05/21 – 07/11/21

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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: 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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Los Angeles Literary Events, Uncategorized

Los Angeles Literature Events: 04/05/21 – 04/11/21

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Monday Funday: April Poetry Month – LAPL Online Kids Event       

You can win a free poetry book when you join us for Monday Funday, celebrating National Poetry Month!

We’ll do Mad Libs, solve riddles, and experiment with writing our own poems. Please have your paper and pencils ready.

NOTE: Details, registration, and link at site.

Where: Los Angeles Public Library – Online Event

Date: Monday the 5th                                                

Time:  4 pm – 5 pm   

Address: Online event (see site)       

Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/monday-funday-april   

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Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 03/29/21 – 04/04/21

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Shannon Kenny Carbonell & All Is Not Lost via Chevalier’s Bookstore – Virtual Crowdcast Event 

Join author Shannon Kenny Carbonell, in conversation with Nestor Carbonell,to hear her discuss her book, All Is Not Lost.

Shannon Kenny Carbonell’s book, All Is Not Lost, is the story of what happened when one woman set aside a lifelong dream in favor of her kids, only to find herself battling her own ego and unfulfilled ambition. When her family relocated to Oahu, Hawaii during the shooting of the TV show LOST, she found herself as lost as the characters/survivors, and find a way to reconcile her growing feeling of failure and sudden loss of herself, This is her journey.

NOTE: Details, registration and event link available at website.

Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore – Online Crowdcast Event  

Date: Monday the 29th                                              

Time:  7 pm – 8 pm               

Address: Online event (see site)       

Website: https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/shannon-kenny-carbonell    

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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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Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 03/08/21 – 03/14/21

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Lesley Tellez & Eat Mexico via La Plaza de Cultura y Artes – Virtual Event   

Join us on Zoom and FB Live as author Lesley Tellez presents her book, Eat Mexico: Recipes from Mexico City’s Streets, Markets and Fondas, and demonstrates how to make Peneques, a traditional Mexico City recipe that dates to the 19th century.

NOTE: Details available at event link.

Where: La Plaza de Cultura y Artes– Online Event 

Date: Monday the 8th                                              

Time:  3 pm                           

Address: Online event (see site)       

Website:   https://www.facebook.com/events/129956188996703

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Los Angeles Literary Events

Los Angeles Literature Events: 02/15/21 – 02/21/21

Another busy week of live streamed literary events in the Los Ángeles literary community. This week is especially noteworthy because UC Riverside’s annual Writers Week is this week. It’s a weeklong literary festival, now entering its 44thy year. Featured writers are three Poets Laurates past and present Rita Dove, Joy Harjo and Juan Felipe Herrera. Other writers include Mike Davis, Nalo Hopkins, and Tommy Pico, among others. Check out all the week’s events and support your local literary community! #losangelesliterature

Most Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS

Denise Hamilton, Alex Espinosa & Aimee Bender Present Speculative LA Fiction Anthology via Skylight Books – Online Event           

Join editor Denise Hamilton and contributing authors Alex Espinosa & Aimee Bender to hear themdiscuss the new anthology Speculative Los Angeles.

This is the debut title in a new city-based anthology series featuring all-new stories with speculative, sci-fi, and paranormal themes—each using distinct neighborhood settings as a launching pad.

Denise Hamilton is the author of seven crime novels and the editor of the anthologies Los Angeles Noir and Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics. She is a former Los Angeles Times journalist and a proud LA native, and editor of Speculative Los Angeles.

Alex Espinoza was born in Tijuana, Mexico to parents from the state of Michoacan and raised in suburban Los Angeles. He is the author of two novels and his most recent book, Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime. He is the Tomas Rivera Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at UC Riverside.

Aimee Bender is the author of six books, and has received many literary awards. Her work has been translated into sixteen languages, and her short fiction published in numerous journals. She lives in LA with her family and teaches creative writing at USC.

NOTE: See site for event details.    

Where: Skylight Bookstore – Online Crowdcast event

Date: Monday the 15th                      

Time: 6:30 pm (PDT)                            

Address: Online event

Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/live-crowdcast-speculative-los-angeles-group-reading-editor-denise-hamilton-and-contributors   

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