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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer with Matt Walsh
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer with Matt Walsh
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer with Matt Walsh on her memoir, "True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between"Please note:-- Tickets are non refundable and are not transferable.-- Tickets cannot be re-sold on re-seller platforms. Re-sold ticket will not be honored.-- All ticket holders should be ready to show ID at the event. Names must match what you provided when registering for this event.-- The name(s) you provide during registration will be on a will-call list at the event, where you will check-in and get your ticket to enter the theatre.-- No large purses, backpacks or laptops are permitted inside the building. Small purses are ok!----------------------------------------------------------Join us for an in-person and virtual* Live Talks Los Angeles event:Monday, July 15, 2024, 7:30pm*Virtual event airs on July 22 at 6pm PT/9pm ETGov. Gretchen Whitmer with Matt Walshdiscussing her memoir, True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in BetweenTICKETS:$50 General Admission ticket + signed copy of Gov. Whitmer's book$75 Two General Admisison tickets + ONE signed bookAdditional books available for purchase at eventFace masks recommendedThe virtual version of this event airs on July 22, at 6pm PT/9PM ET and is available on video-on-demand for five days.Tickets for the Read More ...
Priyanka Mattoo in Conversation for Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones
Priyanka Mattoo in Conversation for Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones
Priyanka Mattoo in Conversation with Tejal Rao for Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones. Book signing and meet and greet to follow.Join us as welcome author Priyanka Mattoo for a reading and coversation for Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones, moderated by Tejal Rao. Book signing and meet and greet to follow.PRIYANKA MATTOO is a writer, filmmaker, former talent agent, and a cofounder of Earios, a women-led podcast network. She is a contributor to The New York Times and The New Yorker, and a recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship. Mattoo holds degrees in Italian and law from the University of Michigan and currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband and kids.TEJAL RAO is a James Beard Award-winning writer and a critic at large for The New York Times, covering food and culture. She lives in Los Angeles.From a wry, insightful, and very funny new voice, here is one woman’s search for home, from Kashmir to England to Saudi Arabia to Michigan to Rome and, finally, to Los Angeles—standalone essays that together form a sweeping portrait of a peripatetic life."I would follow Priyanka Mattoo to the ends of the earth, because she would know what to eat there, and how to make Read More ...
Author event! Kirsty Greenwood with Lindsey Kelk
Author event! Kirsty Greenwood with Lindsey Kelk
In person author event with Kirsty Greenwood and Lindsey Kelk at Zibby's Bookshop, 1113 Montana Ave, Santa Monica CA 90403!Zibby's Bookshop is excited to host Kirsty Greenwood as she celebrates the launch of THE LOVE OF MY AFTERLIFE. Kirsty will be joined in conversation by Lindsey Kelk!About the book:"This book has it all. Humor, heart, and a heroine I was desperately rooting for. Kirsty Greenwood has a new fan!"--Colleen Hoover, New York Times bestselling authorA recently deceased woman meets "the one" in the afterlife waiting room, scoring a second chance at life (and love!) if she can find him on earth before ten days are up...If she wasn't dead already, Delphie would be dying of embarrassment. Not only did she just die by choking on a microwaveable burger, but now she's standing in her 'shine like a star' nightie in front of the hottest man she's ever seen. And he's smiling at her.As they start to chat, everything else becomes background noise. That is until someone comes running out of a door, yelling something about a huge mistake, and sends the dreamy stranger back down to earth. And here Delphie was thinking her luck might be different in the afterlife.When Read More ...
Writing Against Asian American Stereotypes
Writing Against Asian American Stereotypes
Bel Canto Books is delighted to host Writing Against Asian American Stereotypes w/Christine Ma-Kellams, Janie Kim, Sonali Kohli + Karen Yin.Bel Canto Books at KUBO LB is delighted to host Writing Against Asian American Sterotypes: Authors in Conversation featuring: Christine Ma-Kellams, THE BANDJanie Kim, WE CARRY THE SEA IN OUR HANDSSonali Kohli, DON’T WAIT: THREE GIRLS WHO FOUGHT FOR CHANGE AND WONKaren Yin, THE CONSCIOUS STYLE GUIDEKindly RSVP so we can plan accordingly. Please stay home if you feel sick.This event will be held indoors at KUBO LB (3976 Atlantic Avenue, Long Beach CA).EVENT SCHEDULE3:45PM - Event check-in begins4:00pm - Welcome & event start4:15-5:00pm - Author reading, conversation, and Q&A5:00pm-6:00pm - Book signing & shopping time6:00pm - Event endsABOUT THE AUTHORSChristine Ma-Kellams is a Pushcart-nominated writer, Harvard-trained cultural psychologist, and college professor who occupies the intersection where story-telling meets an empirical understanding of what makes people tick.Her empirical studies on culture, social perception and relationships have also been widely covered in GQ (Australia), Esquire (Middle East), Boston Globe, Vice News, Elle Magazine (UK), the Atlantic, Yahoo News, MSN News, Fox News, New York Post, and Daily Mail. Her academic textbook, Cultural Psychology: Cross- and Multicultural Perspectives, has been adopted in Read More ...