Ece Temelkuran, one of Turkey’s best-known novelists and political commentators, was a prominent investigative journalist before her controversial explorations of Kurdish and Armenian issues led to her dismissal. She was a visiting fellow at Oxford and delivered the Freedom Lecture as a guest of Amnesty International and the Prince Claus Foundation. Read More …
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2018 Featured Event: The AfroFuturism Book Club Launch
AfroFuturism is a genre and a movement. It is science fiction and it is reality. It is past and it is future.
It is our time.
The AfroFuturism Book Club at the Last Bookstore launches on May 8.
Giveaway: Not My White Savior by Julayne Lee
Our next giveaway is a signed copy of Not My White Savior by Julayne Lee, which we picked up at her successful launch party at CIELO galleries.
The book of poetry goes to one lucky winner from our “Giveaways and Special Offers” list. Sign up here: https://www.bookswell.club/subscribe/
2018 Featured Event: Reading — Voices from Leimert Park
Voices from Leimert Park Redux is a symphony of diverse voices echoing the collective heartbeat of a community. In 2006, Voices From Leimert Park revealed one of the best kept secrets of the Los Angeles literary scene: African-American and other writers of color were producing nationally known and respected poetry, fiction, and nonfiction within the Leimert Park literary community.
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2018 Featured Author: Morgan Jerkins
Photo by Sylvie Rosokoff
Morgan Jerkins is a contributing editor at Catapult whose work has been featured in The New Yorker, Vogue, the New York Times, The Atlantic, Elle, Rolling Stone, Lenny, and BuzzFeed, among many others. She lives in New York.
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