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January 19, 2019 at 5 PM at Skylight Books: 2018 Whiting Award Winner in Poetry Tommy Pico reads from Junk with Joseph Osmundson. Read More …
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2018 Featured Event: Southern California Poetry Festival
November 16 to 18, 2018
The SoCalPoFest is an annual poetry festival that relocates each year to a different Southern California community. For 2018, the third annual, the event will feature themed readings and workshops. The SoCalPoFest is dedicated to preserving the diversity of voices within our community, and this diversity extends across cultural lines and lines related to schools of poetic thought. We want to hear poetry from all who make a practice of it, regardless of poetic affiliation or cultural group.
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2018 Featured Event: PBS SoCal Reads
Join PBS SoCal and The Last Bookstore to celebrate the nation’s 100 most-loved novels. Inspired by the PBS series The Great American Read, the evening will feature exclusive clips, discussions with author Lisa See and Eliyannah Yisrael, a local subject from the series, and a special performance by Impro Theatre’s hilarious “Jane Austen UnScripted.”
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2018 Featured Author: Lynell George
Photo: Noé Montes
Lynell George is an LA-based journalist and essayist. She has had a long career in LA journalism as a staff writer for both The Los Angeles Times and L.A. Weekly—focusing on social issues, human behavior, and identity politics as well as visual arts, music, and literature. Her writings have appeared in several essay collections. Read More …
Giveaway: Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
Our next giveaway is a signed copy of Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber, who will appear at the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre on June 13 at 8 p.m. in conversation with Cory Doctorow. The book goes to one lucky winner from our subscribers list.
