• SIGNING & LAUNCH EVENT: All Hours w/ Kwame Onwuachi & Ava DuVernay

    Reparations Club 3054 South Victoria Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Join Rep Club for a discussion on 'All Hours: Crazy Good Food for Whatever, Whenever ' by author & chef Kwame Onwuachi. WHO & WHAT: Join Rep Club for a signing and moderated conversation celebrating 'All Hours: Crazy Good Food For Whanever - A Cookbook' with author and James Beard Award-winning chef Kwame Onwuachi moderated by Ava DuVernay. The 7pm Read More ...

  • Ke Huy Quan with Octavia Spencer

    Bezdek Center for the Performing Arts at Cross Roads School 1736 22nd Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404, Santa Monica, CA, United States

    An Evening with Ke Huy Quan discussing his memoir, "Never Say Die" Please note: -- Tickets cannot be re-sold on re-seller platforms. Re-sold ticket will not be honored. -- Tickets are non refundable and are not transferable. -- All ticket holders should be ready to show ID at the event. -- The name(s) you provide during registration will be on Read More ...

  • Ke Huy Quan in conversation with Octavia Spencer (Virtual Event)

    Online (virtual event)

    Live Talks Los Angeles presents a virtual event. Ke Huy Quan in conversation with Octavia Spencer, discussing his memoir "Never Say Die." Tuesday, September 29, 2026, 6pm PT / 9pm ET. The Oscar-winning star of Everything Everywhere All at Once, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and The Goonies tells the story of his journey from Vietnamese refugee to Read More ...

  • Ari Emanuel with Kara Swisher

    Wilshire Ebell Theatre 4401 West 8th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90005, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Ari Emanuel in conversation with Kara Swisher discussing his memoir, "Roll the Calls" Please note: -- Tickets cannot be re-sold on re-seller platforms. Re-sold ticket will not be honored. -- Tickets are non refundable and are not transferable. -- All ticket holders should be ready to show ID at the event. -- The name(s) you provide during registration will be Read More ...

  • Learned Ladies and Notorious Whores: The Women of the Scandalous Memoir

    Los Angeles Union Station 800 North Alameda Street, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Presented by Rare Books LA at Los Angeles Union Station: ejected from polite society, three generations of courtesans turned the scandalous memoir into a genre of their own, exposing the hypocrisy of the men around them and reclaiming the worth of women that history tried to erase. This one-hour talk traces how these "learned ladies and notorious whores" wrote themselves Read More ...

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  • Ari Emanuel in conversation with Kara Swisher (Virtual Event)

    Online (virtual event)

    Live Talks Los Angeles presents a virtual event. Ari Emanuel in conversation with Kara Swisher, discussing his memoir "Roll the Calls." Tuesday, October 6, 2026, 6pm PT / 9pm ET. One of Hollywood's most accomplished, feared, and funny dealmakers has some stuff he wants to get off his chest: a lifetime worth of stuff, and secrets, and stories. Virtual admission Read More ...

  • WeHo Reads: No Apologies

    Online (virtual event)

    Four local writers dare to break the rules, raise their voices, and refuse to compromise. What does a writer sacrifice when they soften their work to fit the mold? And what becomes possible when they refuse? On Nov. 4, four local writers confront subjects many books shy away from: race, desire, class, the messy moments when life stops making sense. Read More ...

  • The Poet’s Memoir

    Beyond Baroque 681 Venice Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    A generative writing workshop with Truong Tran The Poet’s Memoir is a generative workshop that approaches the narratives of the self through short, non-narrative inquiries. A memoir does not have to tell a life from beginning to end. It can be made of moments, snippets, fragments—parts of a story that, when brought together, begin to make a whole. In this Read More ...