Los Angeles Literature Events 10/02/18 –10/07/18

October 2, 2018 Brian L.A. Literary Happenings, Los Angeles Literary Events 826LA Echo Park, Book Soup, Chevalier's Bookstore, Civic Center Studios, Eso Won, Lambda LitFest, LGBT Center, Other Books, Otis College, Redondo Poets, Roar Shack, Skylight Books, Stories Books & Cafe, Sunday Jump

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Dennis Vaughn & The Longboat at Diesel Bookstore

Please join us to hear author Dennis Vaughn discuss and sign his novel, The Longboat.

This book is a family saga, spanning multiple generations and continents, focused on two Burmese boys who are brought to the U.S. and the challenges they face in adjusting to the Western world and to changes in their own relationship. Over the span of thirty years they go from inseparable best friends to antagonists, and ends with the Saffron Revolution of 2007.

Where: Diesel Bookstore, Brentwood

Date: Tuesday the 2^nd

Time: 6:30 pm

Address: 225 26^th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402

Website: http://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/tuesday-october-2nd-630pm-dennis-vaughn-discusses-and-signs-longboat

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Los Angeles Literature Events 8/27/18 –9/02/18

August 26, 2018 Brian L.A. Literary Happenings, Los Angeles Literary Events Avenue 50 Studios, Brian Dunlap, Chevalier's Bookstore, Concrete Paradise, Gatsby's Bookstore, Libro Mobile, Open Door Poetry Reading, Saturday Afternoon Poetry, Stories Books & Cafe, Sunday Jump, The Definitive Soap Box Open Mic, World Stage Press, Writers' Block Live at 1888 Center

A Gathering of Tribes Poetry Reading at Chevalier’s Bookstore

Please join us for A Gathering of Tribes, presented by Brendan Constantine, the author most recently of Dementia My Darling, and featuring:

Derek D. Brown is an author, poet and venture expressionist, and a graduate of CLI’s author training program at USC. He is author of the collection, Articulate Scars.

Mike Sonksen, aka Mike the Poet, is a scholar, author and performance artist, acclaimed for his articles, essays and poems, and for mentoring teen writers. He is the author of Poetics of Location.

Ra Avis is sometimes-poet, a once-upon-a-time inmate, a reluctantly optimistic widow, and an exponential storyteller. She blogs regularly at Rarasaur.com, and is the author of Sack Nasty: Prison Poetry and Dinosaur-Hearted.

Where: Chevalier’s Bookstore

Date: Monday the 27^th

Time: 7 pm

Address: 126 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90004

Website: http://www.chevaliersbooks.com/gathering-of-tribes

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Los Angeles Literature Events 7/30/18 –8/05/18

July 29, 2018 Brian L.A. Literary Happenings, Los Angeles Literary Events Avenue 50 Studios, Beyond Baroque, Chevalier's Bookstore, dA Center for the Arts, El Sereno Branch Library, First Sunday Open Reading, Gatsby's Bookstore, Lincoln Heights Branch LAPL, Martin Pollard Branch Library, Poetic Research Bureau, Rapp Saloon, Saturday Afternoon Poetry, Skylight Books, South Pasadena Public Library, The Last Bookstore, The World Stage, Vermont Square Branch LAPL, Vroman's, White Point Nature Preserve, Women's Center for Creative Work

Mary McCoy & Camp So-and-So at El Sereno Branch Library – Teen Event

Please join us for our Summer Author series and meet author Mary McCoy, who will present Camp So-and-So. She is a talented writer of stories about Los Angeles’s notorious past, AND a librarian at the Los Angeles Public Library. You can meet her this summer at this event, and might be the lucky winner of a free copy of the book.

Where: El Sereno Branch Library, LAPL

Date: Monday the 30^th

Time: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Address: 5226 S. Huntington Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90032

Website: http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/summer-author-meet-mary-mccoy

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