Tag: Memoir

In conversation with Tim Curry (virtual event)

Join us for a virtual Live Talks Los Angeles event:
Monday, November 3, 2025, 6pm PT/9pm ET
 

**An Afternoon with Tim Curry
discussing his memoir, “Vagabond.”**

This event is taped with an audience on October 26.
VIRTUAL EVENT TICKETS (**US Orders Only**)
Monday, November 3, 2025, 6pm PT/9pm ET
$55 Virtual Admission + book with signed book plate (**includes shipping to US addresses only**). Includes access to watch the event on November 3 at 6pm PT/9pm ET and on video-on-demand for five days..

***With the upcoming 50th anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and the 40th anniversary of Clue, there’s never been a better time for Tim to share his story with the world. Tim’s memoir, Vagabond, is a celebration of his life’s work, and a testament to his profound impact on the entertainment industry.***

**Tim Curry **is an Emmy award-winning actor who’s worked in the entertainment industry for close to five decades. He is best known for his iconic roles in *The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Clue, It, The Pirates of Penzance, Spamalot, Hair, Home Alone 2, Muppet Treasure Island*, and countless others. 

There are few stars in Hollywood today who can boast the resume Emmy that award-winning actor Tim Curry has built over the past five decades. From his breakout role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in *The Rocky Horror Picture Show* to his critically acclaimed role as the original King Aurthur in both the Broadway and West End versions of *Spamalot*, Curry redefined what it meant to be a character actor as he portrayed heroes and villains alike with complexity, nuance, and a genuine understanding of human darkness. 
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In his rip-roaring memoir, *Vagabond*, Curry takes readers through his early beginnings as a military brat with difficult family dynamics, to his formative school years, to the moment when he hit the stage for the first time. He shares what it was like to work on some of the most best-known works of the 20th century. He also explores the voicework that has defined his career more recently, which provided him with a chance to pivot after surviving a catastrophic and nearly fatal stroke over a dozen years ago.

WeHo Reads Returns for an Inspiring Fall 2022 Season

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We’re back! After a summer hiatus, BookSwell returns with three events on the ROAD TO JOY!

9/20 WeHo Reads: Expansive Vistas and Hidden Corners

The next WeHo Reads event is Expansive Vistas and Hidden Corners on Tuesday, September 20, 2022, at 6 p.m. Artists and writers explore concepts of places, how they’re made, and how we understand, remember, and memorialize them.

Lynell George is a journalist and essayist based in Los Angeles, who tells the city’s story one sentence at a time. Her book, After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame (Angel City Press 2018), is an exploration of the city in text and photography, and she explores the extraordinary creative life of Octavia E. Butler in A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky, published by Angel City Press in 2020. She will be in discussion with Marisela Norte, an American writer, poet, and artist living in Los Angeles and known for poetry that explores the unseen city, including her poetry collection Peeping Tom Tom Girl (Sunbelt Publications 2008). Together, they will explore hidden corners of Los Angeles and the poetry of the city in images and text.

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10/5 WeHo Reads: Poets Laureate Across America

There will also be a special October 2022 event featuring a selection of poets from the Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship Program. These poets laureate were all chosen by the Academy to receive a $50,000 award to help support creative work and community engagement projects, and several of them will gather to share about the projects they created.

WeHo Reads: Poets Laureate Across America takes place on Wednesday, October 5, 2022, at 6 p.m.  In 2020, the Academy of American Poets awarded more than $1 million to 23 poets laureate as part of a year-long Fellowship to support their creative and organizing work. One of these awards went to City of West Hollywood City Poet Laureate Brian Sonia-Wallace who also serves as this event’s host. This reading brings together a group of these Fellows from across the country in the aftermath of their Fellowships to share what they did, read their writing, and reflect on the state of poetry across the United States.

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11/15 WeHo Reads: Light in Our Hearts

Light in Our Hearts concludes the 2022 WeHo Reads season on Tuesday, November 15, 2022, at 6 p.m. 

The culminating event in the series will bring together poets, writers, and artists who live and create at the intersection of joy and hope and reckoning with pain. bridgette bianca is a poet and educator from South Central Los Angeles. Her debut book of poetry, be/trouble, is a powerful love letter to oft-overlooked Los Angeles, one that offers as much danger as it does glamour and as much grit as beauty. traci kato-kiriyama is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer/author, actor, arts educator & community organizer. Her recently published book from Writ Large Press, Navigating With(out) Instruments, is a collection of poetics, micro essays, and notes to self (and other)—a journey of several years, navigating through death moments, past/present tensions of war and violence, trauma and ideation, excavation, and memory. Cassandra Lane is a writer and editor based in Los Angeles. Her first book, WE ARE BRIDGES: A Memoir, weaves personal and historical geographies, lineages, upbringings, and upheavals into a complete tapestry, validating her glorious existence as a Black mother. There will also be closing remarks from series opener Shonda Buchanan.

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