Wednesday, February 18, 2026 | 6:30–8 p.m. (PT)
What happens when writers dare to expose their family secrets through stories and memoir?
WeHo Reads: Telling Family Secrets
WeHo Reads: Going Dark to Bring Light
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 | 6:30–8 p.m. (PT)
Heading into the winter season, we explore dark themes in fiction to shed light on humanity’s capacity for grace and terrible crimes.
Read More …WeHo Reads: Wild and Powerful Imaginations
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 | 6:30–8 p.m. (PT)
How do writers harness their imaginations to create new worlds, reshape realities, and advocate for justice? How can their stories help us envision more inclusive futures?
Read More …25 Désirée Zamorano interview
Désirée Zamorano, author and educator, joins BookSwell Intersections host Cody Sisco to discuss Dispossessed, her powerful historical novel about mass deportations of Mexican Americans in 1930s Los Angeles. They explore the novel’s themes of invisibility and injustice, the inspiration behind its good-man protagonist, and the urgent parallels between past and present struggles for equity and representation.
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Photo credit: Rachael Warecki
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Désirée Zamorano is the author of the highly acclaimed literary novel, The Amado Women. An award-winning and Pushcart prize nominee, her work is often an exploration of issues of invisibility, injustice or inequity. Her writing appears in Alta, Catapult, and The Kenyon Review. Her novel Dispossessed is out from Rize.
Désirée’s Book Recommendations
What I’m Currently Reading
A Book That Changed My Life
Books That Shaped My Storytelling
Summer of Love for Immigrant, Refugee, and Diaspora Stories
WeHo Reads: Voices of Transformation
Wednesday, October 8, 2025 | 6:30–8 p.m. (PT)
To achieve transformation, we must first imagine it.
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