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
Atelier Manferdini & Portraits and Landscapes at SCI-Arc College & University
Join us for the Los Angeles launch of Portraits and Landscapes. The monograph collects the work created by Atelier Manferdini during the last six years of design activity. The projects are divided into two large families of explorations, Landscapes and Portraits.
NOTE: This is a ticketed event so check website link for details.
Where: SCI-Arc College and University
Date: Monday the 9th
Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: 960 E. 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
By Margaret Wappler
FROM: L.A. Times
Ronan Farrow, Emily Bazelon, Attica Locke, Michael Connelly and Colson Whitehead are among the finalists for the 40th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes announced Wednesday, with crime novelist Walter Mosley named as the winner of the 2019 Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement.
The 43rd Annual Writers Week Conference at UC Riverside (Day 1 of 5)
Join us for Day 1 of the 43rd Annual Writers Week at UCR, the longest-running, free literary event in California, featuring renowned authors of the day alongside those at the start of promising careers. Tom Lutz is Writers Week director.
All events are free and open to the public, and parking is free (permits available at the Kiosk).
12:30 pm: Tom Lutz is the author, most recently, of Born Slippy: A Novel. He is founding editor of Los Angeles Review of Books and a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at UCR. His other work includes two books of travel essays, plus the cultural histories Crying and Doing Nothing, and the literary histories Cosmopolitan Vistas and American Nervousness, 1903.
1:30 pm: Norma Cantu (Steven Minot Lecture) is the author, most recently, of Cabanuelas: A Love Story and Meditacion Fronteriza: Poems of Life. She has published articles on a number of academic subjects as well as poetry and fiction. Her publications on border literature and other subjects have earned her an international reputation as a scholar and folklorist. Her award-winning Canicula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera chronicles her childhood experiences on the border. She edits the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Cuture and Traditions book series at Texas A&M University Press.
3:00 pm: Jerry Stahl is a writer of memoir (Permanent Midnight, OG Dad), novels (Perv, I Fatty, Pain Killers, Happy Mutant Baby Pills, Bad Sex on Speed), television (Twin Peaks, Hemingway and Gellhorn, CSI, Maron, Escape at Dannemora), and film (Permanent Midnight, Bad Boys II, Urge, Chuck), and other works.
4:30 pm: Lisa Teasley (Steven Minot Lecturer) is the author of the acclaimed novels Heat Signature and Dive, and the award-winning story collection, Glow in the Dark. Her frequently anthologized essays, stories and poems have appeared widely and in mumerous journals. She is writer and presenter of the BBC TV documentary “High School Prom” and Senior Fiction Editor at LARB. She is also a painter, represented by Marie Baldwin Gallery.
7:00 pm: Walter Mosley – (LARB/ UCR Lifetime Achievement Award) is one of the most versatile and admires writers in America. He is the author of more than fifty books, including the recently released Elements of Fiction, a non-fiction book about the art of writing fiction, and the best-selling mystery series featuring “Easy Rawlins.” His work has been translated into 25 languages, and he is also writer and executive producer on the John Singleton FX show, Snowfall. He is a winner of numerous awards, and lives in New York City and Los Angeles.
Where: UC Riverside, CHASS Interdisciplinary Building, South-
Screening Room, INTS 1128
Date: Monday the 10th
Time: 12:30 pm – 5 pm & 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 900 University Ave., Riverside, CA 92521
Tommy Davidson & Living Color: What’s Funny About Me at Barnes and Noble, The Grove at Farmers Market
Join us at Barnes and Noble, The Grove to hear actor and stand-up comic Tommy Davidson present and sign his book What’s Funny About Me, a revealing memoir about this 1990 start in the award-winning TV show In Living Color, a pioneering sketch comedy show. It featured a multi-racial cast of actors and dancers who spoke to an underrepresented new generation created by Hip Hop Nation.
NOTE: This is a wrist band event so check website for details.
Where: Barnes and Noble, The Grove at Farmers Market
Date: Monday the 3rd
Time: 7 pm
Address: 189 The Grove Drive, Suite K 30, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/528361937889844/ or http://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062100856-0
Mietek Boduszynski & US Democracy Promotion in the Arab World at LMU
Author Mietek Bosduszynski will discuss and sign his book, US Democracy Promotion in the Arab World. Should the US offer more support to the Middle East and Northern Africa to democratize? Join us in a discussion with an expert on the Balkans and the modern Middle East and North Africa, especially Iraq, Libya and Egypt.
The author teaches U.S. Foreign Policy at Pomona College, and was a diplomat with the U.S. Department of State at postings in Albania, Kosovo, Japan, Egypt, Libya and Iraq.
Where: LMU, McIntosh Center, University Hall, 3999
Date: Monday the 27th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 1 LMU Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: https://cal.lmu.edu/event/mietek_boduszynski_us_democracy_promotion_in_the_arab_world
Wild Cards Kids Book Release Party at Westin Bonaventure Hotel
Join Hope and Wade King for a night of fun, food, and entertainment to celebrate the launch of their all-new book, Wild Card Kids and relive your child with carnival-inspired fun and games The celebration follows the first day of the Get Your Teach on Los Angeles conference, but you do not need to be a conference attendee to join the party..
NOTE: This is a ticketed event so check website for details.
Where: Western Bonaventure Hotel & Suites, Plaza Pool Deck
Date: Monday the 20th
Time: 6 pm – 10 pm
Address: 404 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
