All Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Vroman’s Live: Stephen Haff & Kid Quixote at Crowdcast Online
Author Stephen Haff presents his book Kid Quixotes: A Group of Students, Their Teacher, and the One-Room School Where Everything Is Possible. The author is the founder of Still Waters in a Storm, which serves Spanish speaking immigrant children in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
Where: Crowdcast Online event (Register in advance)
Date: Monday the 1st
Time: 6 pm
Address: Crowdcast Online
By Brian Dunlap
For Asain/Pacific American Heritage Month, Los Āngeles Literature is recommending books about Asian L.Á. written by Asians and books written by Asian Angeleños. This history of the city’s Asian American literature extends at least as far back as the 1920s, as historian Valerie J. Matsumoto chronicles in the chapter “Sounding the Dawn Bell: Developing Nisei Voices” from her book City Girls. Continue reading
All Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Call for Submissions Deadline of May 28 for Hombre Lobo Online
Announcement by Viva Padilla of Call for Submissions: real stories about spooky experiences for online zine HOMBRE LOBO dryland.org/hombre-lobo.
Send these goths your story about your real spooky experiences to be published in on online zine. Link for submissions is given at FB site below.
Where: Online deadline/event
Date: May submissions period ends this week
Time: Present – May 28 at 1am
Address: Submissions announcement/event (see website link for information)
By Bill Cushing
FROM: Cultural Weekly
In her fourth novel, Glorious Boy, Aimee Liu begins with a marvelously mysterious and enticing scenario: “When Shep lifts the blackout shades, a thin film of gray invades the bedroom, exposing his annoyance.”
By Myriam Gurba
FROM: Electric Lit
Amado Vazquez, a Mexican botanist, named an orchid after Joan Didion. While that was a chic gesture, I don’t think of her as an orchid. I think of her as an onion. She’s very white, very crisp, and she makes people cry.
NOTE: All Events Are Online/Virtual DUE TO CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Lucy Smith & The Dirt, Reading & Q&A on Facebook Live Online
Join us for a Facebook Live online event with author Lucy Smith for a reading and Q&A of her memoir The Dirt: An illustrated, 100% Uncensored Memoir of a Girl with Mental Illness.
Where: Facebook Live Online
Date: Monday the 18th
Time: 1 pm – 1:30 pm
Address: Facebook Live
FROM: PEN America
NOTE: Los Angeles Literature stands with PEN America Los Angeles and the L.A. literary comminity. Read on to find out why.
We write as a coalition of Los Angeles-based literary arts organizations and allies committed to supporting this city’s writers and literary professionals struggling amid the COVID-19 epidemic. We support the prioritization of health and safety measures until the crisis subsides, but request that you include writers and the literary community in forthcoming funding decisions related to recovery from the pandemic, recognizing the essential cultural and economic role they play in our city.
