Tony Abbott & Mordicai Gerstein at Children’s Book World–Children’s Event
Please join us to meet and hear from two authors receiving the Horace Mann Upstander Awards, given yearly to celebrate authors who publish fictional stories that encourage activism on the part of the protagonist. The authors will discuss their work, receive their awards from Antioch University Los Angeles, and the presentation will be followed by a Q&A and book signing. For ages: 10-adult.
The Summer of Owen Todd, by Tony Abbott is the winner of the Annual Book Award. Mordicai Gerstein is the Lifetime Achievement Award winner for his commitment to activism, and particularly for his latest book, The Boy and the Whale.
Where: Children’s Book World
Date: Monday the 21st
Time: 6 pm
Address: 10580 ½ W. Pico Blvd., West Los Angeles, CA 90064
Roxanne’s Open Mic at Roxanne’s in Long Beach
Please join us for an Open Mic, featuring music, comedy, poetry, with food and drinks available, and hosted by Shy But Flyy.
Tonight’s featured artists are: Che Zifandel and Mark McVicker.
Where: Roxanne’s
Date: Monday the 21st
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 1115 E. Wardlow Rd., West Long Beach, CA 90807
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/185931658794873/
Poetry in the Labyrinth – Book Club at The Last Bookstore
Please join us for the second installment of our poetry book club, as we are reading U.S Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith’s Wade in the Water. LA poet Armine Iknadossian leaads us through the latest from this Pulitzer Prize winning author.
NOTE: The book comes with your prepaid ticket and registration, so see website for details.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Monday the 21st
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Launch Event for 2018 Report on Creative Economy at Otis College of Art and Design
Please join us for the 2018 Launch Event for the Otis College Report on the Creative Economy. Shawn Johnson, Vice President for NBC Universal, will share his perspective on changing needs of the creative economy and the movement towards design thinking.
Where: Otis College of Art and Design
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 10 am – 2 pm
Where: 9045 Lincoln Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/601297703545059/
Poetry Open Mic at Eagle Rock Center for the Arts
Please join us for a Poetry Reading 7 Open Mic on “What I See Around Me,” hosted by Los Angeles Poetry Society and Center for the Arts.
Where: Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 4:30 pm – 6 pm
Address: 2225 Colorado Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90041
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/214724669123623/
Cyrus Fairvar & Habeas Data at Diesel Bookstore
Please join us to welcome author Cyrus Farivar, author of Habeas Data: Privacy vs. the Rise of Surveillance Tech.
This book explains the tools of surveillance that exist today, how they work, and what the implications are for the future of privacy.
Where: Diesel Bookstore, lower outdoor courtyard
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Nonfiction Book Club & Educated at Pages Bookstore
Please join us for our Nonfiction book Club discussion of author Tara Westover’s book, Educated: A Memoir. The author was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she and her family prepared for the end of the world while isolated from mainstream society. This book is an account of the struggle for self-intervention, and it is a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers.
Mark Polak is the facilitator of this book club, and RSVPs are appreciated.
Where: Pages Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: http://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/non-fiction-book-club
North Morgan & Into? at Book Soup
Please join us to hear author North Morgan discuss and sign Into? This novel shines a coolly mesmerizing light on the modern generation of gay men that are living firmly outside the closet, but faced with a new set of problems, insecurities and self-destructions.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/north-morgan-discusses-and-signs
Santa Monica Reads: Life After Manzanar at Santa Monica Library
Please join us for a conversation on our Santa Monica Reads selection, Life After Manzanar, by Jeanne Wakasuki Houston. Authors Naomi Hirahara and Heather C. Lindquist weave together oral histories of the “Resettlement,” the period following the unjust imprisonment of Japanese Americans who were thrust back into society after World War II with little more than twenty-five dollars and a one-way bus ticket.
Where: Santa Monica Main Library, Martin Luther King, Jr. Auditorium
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 601 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: http://calendar.smgov.net/library/eventsignup.asp?ID=26738
Amber Rae & Choose Wonder at the Last Bookstore
Please join us to hear Amber Rae discuss her new book, Choose Wonder Over Worry: Move Beyond Fear and Doubt to Unlock Your Full Potential. This book asks why we hold back from pursuing what matters most, listen to the voice in our head that tells us we’re not good/smart/or talented enough, and tells us how can we face our fears, navigate our discomfort, and rewrite the “worry myths” in our minds to become our truest selves.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Poetry Open Mic at Redondo Poets
Please join us for readings by poet Danielle Mitchell, and participate in our weekly Open Mic.
Where: Coffee Cartel
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 8 pm
Address: 180 S. Catalina Ave., Redondo Beach, CA 90277
Website: http://www.facebook.com/RedondoPoets
Soapbox Sessions Open Mic at Maui Sugar Mill Saloon
Please join us for our weekly Open Mic featuring music, poetry, comedy, and beyond, hosted by Jason Brain and Maui Sugar Mill Saloon.
Where: Maui Sugar Mill Saloon
Date: Tuesday the 22nd
Time: 8 pm (sign-ups)
Address: 18389 Ventura Blvd., Tarzana, CA 91356
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/244013879478991/
Poetry at the Mexican Consulate
Please join us for a presentation of Book of Peony by the wonderful poet Gaspar Orozco. Translated from the Spanish by Mark Weiss, it has been said “this remarkable poetry brings the long ago into newness,” according to Mary Ann Caws.
Where: Mexican Consulate
Date: Wednesday the 23rd
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: 2401 West 6th St., Los Angeles, CA 90057
Website: http://www.cccmla.com/blog/book-of-peony-by-gaspar-orozco
Gary Krist & The Mirage Factory at Pages Bookstore
Please join us to hear author Gary Krist present and sign his book, The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles. Also the author of City of Scoundrels and Empire of Sin, Krist has been lauded for his narrative histories focusing on a particular metropolis on the verge of modernization, and now turns to the key moments and people pivotal to shaping L.A.: William Mulholland, D.W. Griffith, and Aimee Semple McPherson.
Everyone is welcome!
Where: LASC, SSB Lobby (between LASC Bookstore & the Admissions office; parking at Western entrance)
Date: Wednesday the 23rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: http://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/gary-krist-author-event
Raw Authors at Vroman’s Bookstore
Please join us to hear authors Bella Mahaya and Claire Bidwell Smith, discuss and sign, Raw. This is the story of one woman’s quest for health and happiness, which dragged her kicking and screaming into spiritual adulthood. The book is divided into three sections focusing on holistic solutions to chronic problems.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 23rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Get Lit’s Melt the Mic at The Actor’s Gang Studio
Please join us when Get Lit/Word Ignite Players, an award-winning youth poetry troupe presents Melt the Mic at The Actor’s Gang Studio.
Check social media for any change in date.
Where: The Actor’s Gang Studio
Date: Wednesday the 23rd
Where: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 9070 Venice Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232
Website: http://getlit.org
A Poet’s Journey at ALOUD, Central Library
The ALOUD reading Series at the Central Library welcomes poet, memoirist and author Steve Kuusisto, author of Planet of the Blind, in conversation with Louise Steinman, to discuss his latest book, Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet’s Journey. Born legally blind, before the ADA, he was taught to deny his blindness and “pass” as sighted, but later found he must alter his way of being in the world. His incredible partnership with a dog changed everything and sent him on a wondrous spiritual midlife adventure.
Check standby rules and attendance guidelines at website link.
Where: Mark Taper Auditorium, Central Library, LAPL
Date: Wednesday the 23rd
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 630 West 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
Website: http://lfla.org/event/planet-blind-poets-journey/
Rachel Kushner & The Mars Room at Skylight Bookstore
Please join us to hear author Rachel Kushner read and discuss her new novel, The Mars Room. Dazzling and audacious, this book is the story of Romy Hall, a woman without resources, who ends up in Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, where she triumphs at ridiculing authority, does her best to survive, and tries to guarantee a life for her son outside the system she is condemned to.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 23rd
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/rachel-kushner-reads-her-new-novel-mars-room
Author Brian Fitzpatrick at the Last Bookstore–YA Event
Please join us to hear Brian Fitzpatrick present his recent YA novel, Mechcraft. This is a story about how Jack London’s ideal teenage life is thrown into chaos when he discovers the ability to control a swarm of shape-shifting nanotechnology that has, until recently, lain dormant in his DNA. With two Mechcraft agents at his side, and a horde of enemies chasing them down, he finds himself in a desperate race to safety.
NOTE: This is a ticket event, and the book comes with your ticket which can be purchased at the website.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 23rd
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Dr. Michael Datcher at The World Stage
Please join us to hear Dr. Michael Datcher read and discuss his work as our feature at the Anansi Writers Workshop. He is the author of the novel Americus, the critically-acclaimed Raising Fences, and is author of the forthcoming book of literary theory, Animating Black and Brown Liberation: A Theory of American Literatures. He is co-editor of Tough Love: The life and Death of Tupac Shakur, and co-host of the weekly public affairs magazine Beautiful Struggle on 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles. He is assistant professor of English at LMU.
Where: The World Stage
Date: Wednesday the 23rd
Time: 7:30 pm (workshop); 8:30 pm (feature)
Address: 4321 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/164663387538035/
Janna King & The Seasonaires, at Diesel Bookstore
Please join us to welcome author Janna King to discuss and sign The Seasonaires. An idyllic Nantucket summer begins like a dream for Mia, as part of a group of six seasonaires working for the clothing brand Lyndon Wyld. But a darkness lurks below the surface and slowly rises up to try to rule their lives by curating their every move. The results are as explosive as the murder that will sully their catalog-perfect lives.
Where: Diesel Bookstore, lower outdoor courtyard
Date: Thursday the 24th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Jack Hatch & Touching the Dragon at Pages Bookstore
Please join us to hear author Jack Hatch present and sign his book, Touching the Dragon: and Other Techniques for Surviving Life’s Wars. In this compelling and inspiring story, Hatch writes about his experience as a special oops Navy SEAL senior chief. He was art of an attempt to rescue a rogue soldier (Pvt. Bowie Bergdahl) and was badly shot, an injury that ended his career in the military.
Where: Pages Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 24th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: http://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/james-hatch-author-event
Dave Itzkoff & Robin at Book Soup
Please join us to hear author Dave Itzkoff discuss and sign Robin, the definitive biography of Robin Williams, one of America’s most beloved and misunderstood entertainers. This book is a fresh and original look at a man whose work touched so many lives.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Thursday the 24th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/dave-itzkoff-discusses-and-signs-robin
The New Negro with Jeffrey C. Stewart at Vroman’s Bookstore
Please join us to hear author Jeffrey C. Stewart, in discussion with Michele Zack, discuss and sign, The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke. This is the definitive biography of the Father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him. This recreates the life of an illustrious, enigmatic man who, in the process of promoting the cultural heritage of Black people, became a New Negro himself.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 24th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Belly Up & Rita Bullwinkle at Skylight Bookstore
Please join us to hear author Rita Bullwinkle discuss her story collection, Belly Up, with Amina Cain and Elizabeth Ziemska. These stories occupy the space between the familiar and the surreal. The characters and voices are all seeking a way to cope with the bodies they’ve been given and the bodies they must encounter.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 24th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Author Kristen Martin at the Last Bookstore
Please join us to hear Kristen Martin present her book, Be Your Own Goals: Your Guide to Living Your Truth, Reclaiming Your Self-Worth, and Loving Yourself Every Step of the Way. This is a concise, witty, and relatable guide to avoiding the comparison game and helping you to be your best self.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 24th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
Wine Guide & Marissa Ross at Book Soup
Please join us to hear Marissa Ross discuss and sign her book, Wine. All the Time: The Casual Guide to Confident Drinking. This fresh,, fun and unpretentious guide from the official wine columnist for Bon Appetit walks you through the ins and outs of wine culture, and makes you laugh.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Friday the 25th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Literature Reading Group & Left Hand of Darkness at Vroman’s Bookstore
Please join our Literature Reading Group, which is reading and will be discussing the late, great Ursula LeGuin’s book, The Left Hand of Darkness (Remembering Tomorrow). This is a futuristic journey into the interactions between different cultures and worlds, and their conflicts on issues of sexual and political identity.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Friday the 25th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/literature-reading-group
Janelle Hatchett & I’m Just Happy to Be Here at Vroman’s Bookstore
Please join us to hear author Janelle Hatchett discuss and sign I’m Just Happy to Be Here, a forthright, darkly funny, and ultimately empowering memoir chronicling her tumultuous journey from young motherhood to abysmal addiction and a recovery she never imagined possible. After making it back from the depths, she discovers she is still an outsider and finds the rhetoric surrounding motherhood tired and empty, and boldly recounts instead how she grew to accept an imperfect self and imperfect life.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Friday the 25th
Time: 7 am
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/janelle-hanchett-discusses-and-signs-i’m-just-happy-be-here
Wolf Season & Helen Benedict at the Last Bookstore
Join us to hear author Helen Benedict present her newest novel, Wolf Season, about women and the Iraq War. She will be joined in conversation by Meredith Maran, author of The New Old Me: My Late-Life Reinvention.
NOTE: You can buy the book at the website and reserve a seat at the event.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Friday the 25th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/events
Chuck Klosterman at Skylight Bookstore
Join us to hear author Chuck Klosterman present his new collection of essays, A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century. In this book the author sorts through the past decade and how we got to now. He has written nine previous books, helped found and establish Grantland, worked on film and TV productions, and contributed profiles and essays to numerous journals.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Friday the 25th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Poetry Reading at Poetic Research Bureau
Please join to hear poets who will read and discuss their work:
Stella Corso is a writer and performer, and her debut collection, Tantrum, is full of coos and barbed truths, exploring the rights and wrongs of first-world femininity. She teaches at Western New England University and Holyoke College.
Giulia Benicivenga is the author of the chapbook Spacing Out. Formerly the editor of Bay-based magazine See You Next Tuesday, she is now guest editor for MISTRESS.
Zack Haber is the author of …if you want to be one of them playing in the streets…, started The Other Fabulous Reading Series in 2012, and his writing appears in numerous publications.
Where: Poetic Research Bureau
Date: Friday the 25th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 951 Chung King Rd., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://www.poeticresearch.com/
http://facebook.com/events/223836805048572/
Poetry Launch & Reading at Alivio Open Mic
Please join for the Book Release Party for Alexandria Espinoza who will read and discuss her debut, Adventures of the Unicorn, with featured artists Kila Sugasaphire and Araceli Espinoza.
Where: Alivio Open Mic
Date: Friday the 25th
Time: 8 pm – 11 pm
Address: 6328 Orchard Ave., Bell, CA 90201
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/982272518606487/
Children’s Author Visit at Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL–Children’s Event
Meet Cuban-born Laura Lacamara, the award-winning author and illustrator of the bilingual picture books for pre-school and young children, Dalia’s Wondrous Hair, Floating on Mama’s Song, The Runaway Piggy, and Alicia’s Fruity Drinks. Laura also illustrated Mama and the Alien, which received a starred review from Kirkus. She is a popular presenter at schools, book festivals, and conferences, and lives in Southern California with her family.
Where: Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: 5027 Caspar Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90041
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/childrens-author-visit
Javier Hernandez Q&A at Tia Chucha’s Bookstore
Meet comic book author Javier Hernandez, the creator of EL MUERTO, who will discuss his career in comics, film and the Latino Comics Expo. He is a cartoonist and arts instructor, started publishing through his imprint Los Comex in 1998, and his famous EL MUERTO was turned into a live action film starring Wilmer Valderrama in 2007. In 2011 he co-founded the Latino Comics Expo.
A special Q&A with Javier Hernandez will be moderated by our executive director, Michael Centeno.
Where: Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 1 pm – 4 pm
Address: 13197 Gladstone Ave., Unit A, Sylmar, CA 90041
Website: http://www.facebook.com/facebook.com/events/1922445974496660/
Author Event with Lisa See at Chinatown Branch Library
In celebration of Asian American Heritage Month, you are invited to join us for an afternoon with internationally acclaimed bestselling author Lisa See, who will talk about her most recent book, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, her moments of inspiration and her research. In addition, the author will talk about her acclaimed nonfiction book On Gold Mountain, her family and Chinatown.
Where: Chinatown Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Address: 639 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/meet-author-lisa-see
Behind Barbed Wire at Beyond Baroque
Behind Barbed Wire is the title of a documentary film and an original composition for piano and saxophone, composed and performed by pianist May Au and saxophonist Chika Inoue. There is also a reading of haiku poetry in English translation, written by camp internees, with a backdrop of video of camp life.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 2 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
POPS Anthology Book Launch at the Cocoanut Grove Theatre
It’s been a year of immense transformation for POPS the Club as an organization, but more importantly, for the students who are without their incarcerated family members, and who make these clubs what they are. Every year we present an anthology of stellar student work, from essays to poems, from drawings to photography. And this book, In the Key of Love, is a triumph. Come join us for our launch and reading!
Where: The Cocoanut Grove Theatre
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 701 S. Catalina St., Los Angeles, CA 90005
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2067196486835225/
Poetry Workshop with Erika Ayon at Eagle Rock Library, LAPL
Join us for a FREE Author Program & Poetry Workshop offered through the Lummis Poetry Series, featuring and led by poet Erika Ayon, whose first book, Orange Lady, was released in March 2018.
This is part of a prelude to the June 2018 Lummis Day Festival.
Where: Eagle Rock Branch Library
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 3 pm – 5:15 pm
Address: 639 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90041
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/lummis-poetry-workshop
Filipino Authors Event at Central Library, LAPL
As part of Asian American Heritage Month, please join us for an Afternoon with Two Filipino Authors as they discuss their work: author of twenty books and blogger Cecilia Brainard and professor emeritus of English at CSULB Paulino Lim.
See website for their lengthy bios.
Where: Central Library, Meeting Room A
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 3 pm – 4 pm
Address: 630 West 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/afternoon-filipino-authors-cecilia-brainard-and-paulino-lim
Poetry at Santa Catalina Library
Join us for a Print & Internet Publishing Workshop led by Emily Fernandez. She is the author of the recently released chapbook, Procession of Martyrs.
Curated by Don Kingfisher Campbell
Where: Santa Catalina Library
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 999 E. Washington Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91104
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
Edoardo Ponti, with David St. John, at Book Soup
Join us to hear poets Edoardo Ponti, with David St. John, discuss and sign Letters from a Young Father, which is comprised of forty letter poems written by award-winning film director Ponti to his unborn child during the forty weeks of his wife’s pregnancy.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: http://www.booksoup.com/event/edoardo-ponti-david-st-john-discusses-and-signs-letters-young-father
Call Me Anorexic Launch at Gatsby’s Bookstore
Please join us to welcome Ken Capobianco to launch his book, Call Me Anorexic: The Ballad of a Thin Man. While ostensibly about anorexia and its collateral damage, this work explores the many facets of loss, including: loss of love, identity, family, control, purpose, appetite, and of course, pounds.
Where: Gatsby’s Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 5535 E. Spring St., Long Beach, CA 90808
Website: http://gatsbybooks.com/events-2/#/call-me-anorexic-sat-may-26th-3pm/
Beat Poetry & PW Covington at LibroMobile
Please join us for a Beat Poetry Workshop and reading featuring PW Covington. Light snacks and refreshments will be provided. RSVP at website link.
Where: LibroMobile (see map at website link)
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 202 E. 4th St., Ste. 107, Santa Ana, CA 92701
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/1859751037422188/
Jason Lee & A Plain View at Arcana Books
Please join us to hear Jason Lee, present and discuss his book, A Plain View. This is the latest installment in an ongoing photographic series of rural America.
Where: Arcana Books
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90231
Website: http://www.arcanabooks.com
Poe Valentine, with Mimi Pond, at Skylight Bookstore
Please join us to hear Poe Valentine, in conversation with Mimi Pond, read from his novel Whirlaway. Eddie Plum insists he’s been unjustifiably committed to a California psychiatric institution, but manages to escape after 14 years. On the run, he holes up in a barrio on a bluff above the Pacific owned by his wealthy, but unsympathetic father. Here he gets entangled with an array of crazy situations and people, and the police are hot on his trail. Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride has nothing on Whirlaway.
Where: Skylight Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: http://www.skylightbooks.com/event/poe-ballantine-reads-his-novel-whirlaway-mimi-pond
Valley Poets Reading at dA Center for the Arts
Please join the San Gabriel Valley Poets to hear our featured readers. Hosted by The San Gabriel Valley Literary Festival:
Matt Sedillo, poet and activist, is the winner of numerous awards for his poetry and performance, and is newest writer-in-residence for the dA Center for the arts. He travels the country giving workshops and readings for universities and other institutions, and currently works alongside Luis Javier Rodriguez and hosts Pan y Poetry in Pomona.
Genevieve Kaplan is the author of In the Ice House, winner of In a Room of Her Own Foundation’s poetry publication prize, and three chapbooks. She edits Toad Press International chapbook series.
Sean Bernard is the author of the novel, Studies in the Hereafter and the story collection Desert Sonorous. He teaches at the University of La Verne.
Where: dA Center for the Arts
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 252 S. Main St., Suite D, Pomona, CA 91766
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/166391704079918/
Paperback LA Anthology at the Last Bookstore
Join us to hear a host of Angelenos (former and current) as they discuss the casual new anthology, Paperback LA, that captures pure magic, rich history and charisma that makes Los Angeles a haven for writers and creatives. Featured readers include: Victoria Dailey, Robert Landau, Victor Valle, Justin Andrew Marks, Cecil Castelucci, Hector Tobar, and editor Susan La Tempa.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 7:30 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/events
Poetry Reading at Poetic Research Bureau
Please join for a reading with three writers who will read and discuss their work:
Stacy Tran is a writer from Portland Oregon and is creator of Tender Table, a storytelling series about food, family and identity. She is the author of Soap for the Dogs (2018)
Amanda Choo Quan is a Trinidadian-Jamaican writer, performer and organizer based in L.A. who most recently was awarded a REEF/CalArts Residency. Her work can be seen in Callaloo, Entropy, or on various stages across Los Angeles.
Ana Cecelia Alvarez is an essayist and poet born in Mexico City and raised in southern Florida. She is at work on a collection of poetry and a nonfiction manuscript about ghosts, plants, colonialism, and mothers.
Where: Poetic Research Bureau
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 8 pm – 11 pm
Address: 951 Chung King Rd., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/167667100541181/
Rex Weiner, with Tom Lawson & Harry Gamboa, at Beyond Baroque
Please join us to hear Rex Weiner, in conversation with Tom Lawson and Harry Gamboa, two authors included in the Some Place Chronicles, a creative place-making project focusing on the people, histories and cultures of Athens, East Rancho Dominguez, Florence-Firestone, Lennox and Ladera Heights-View Park/Windsor Hills.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Saturday the 26th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: http://beyondbaroque.org/calendar.html
Annual L.A. Zine Fest at Pasadena Convention Center
The 2018 L.A. Zine Fest will feature: 200 zinesters, plus readings, talks, and workshops; zine libraries; the Wonderspace (free, hands-on activities); Playdate (independent arcade games); rad book bikes; a photo booth by The Kitty Cult; and MORE.
All events are FREE and open to the public. However, please arrive early. Parking is available for $13 on-site.
Please check schedule provided online for details and presenters.
Where: Pasadena Convention Center, Conference Center
Date: Sunday the 27th
Time: 11 am – 6 pm
Address: 300 E. Green St., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: http://lazinefest.com/2018-event-info-faq/
Fran Hawthorne & The Heirs at Diesel Bookstore
Please join us to welcome Fran Hawthorne to discuss and sign her debut novel, The Heirs. Following a serious accident, Eleanor Ritter’s mother, Rose, a holocaust survivor, suddenly starts talking about her harrowing childhood in Poland, and the taboo subjects she avoided for half a century. Eleanor then begins to dig into the histories of two families, hers and that of the parents of her young grandson’s friend, who also come from Poland.
The author is an award-winning nonfiction writer, and has been an editor and writer for Business Week, Fortune and other publications.
Where: Diesel Bookstore, lower outdoor courtyard
Date: Sunday the 27th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: http://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/sunday-may-27th-300pm-fran-hawthorne-discusses-and-signs-heirs
Local Author Day at Vroman’s Bookstore
Please join us to welcome local authors to read and discuss their work:
Dr. Lori Baudino will present and sign Super Flyers: A parent guidebook for airplane travel with children.
Edward J. Lopez will present and sign Flight of a Hell Hawk.
Dr. Zenobia Bereal presents and signs 7 Reason Why You Should Go to Church.
Where: Vroman’s Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 27th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Trevor Joyce, Jason Magabo Perez & David Lloyd at Poetic Research Bureau
Please join us to welcome poets and authors to read and discuss their work:
Trevor Joyce will present and sign his many works of Irish poetry.
Jason Magabo Perez will present and sign Phenomenology of Superhero (2016) and This is for the mostless (2017).
David Lloyd presents his work and runs the site Hello Poetry.
Where: Poetic Research Bureau
Date: Sunday the 27th
Time: 4 pm – 7 pm
Address: 951 Chung King Rd., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/2119536971610427/
RCC Muse Magazine Launch at Cellar Door Books
Join us for the launch of the new issue of Riverside Community College’s magazine, MUSE, presented by the RCC Department of English, and showcasing contributions and artists/writers from the new spring issue. There will be cake and prizes! And yes, BOOKS!
Where: Cellar Door Books
Date: Sunday the 27th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 5225 Canyon Crest Dr., Suite 30A, Riverside, CA 92507
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/949303211895672/
The Thing in the Labyrinth Book Club at the Last Bookstore
Join us to read and discuss our horror book club selection, The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea, edited by Ellen Datlow.
NOTE: The book is included with the purchase of your ticket to this event.
Where: The Last Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 27th
Time: 8:45 pm
Address: 453 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
Website: http://lastbookstorela.com/#events
