Join PBS SoCal and The Last Bookstore to celebrate the nation’s 100 most-loved novels. Inspired by the PBS series The Great American Read, the evening will feature exclusive clips, discussions with author Lisa See and Eliyannah Yisrael, a local subject from the series, and a special performance by Impro Theatre’s hilarious “Jane Austen UnScripted.”
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2018 Featured Event: Are You Your Mind? A Conversation
August 31, 2018 7 PM at Vroman’s: Otherwise, a reading series dedicated to supporting the work of outsider artists, is proud to bring together two authors whose work breaks rank and defies expectations of form and sentiment.
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2018 Featured Author: Fatimah Asghar
Fatimah Asghar is a nationally touring poet, screenwriter, educator and performer. Her work has appeared in many journals, including POETRY Magazine, Gulf Coast, BuzzFeed Reader, The New York Times, The Margins, The Offing, Academy of American Poets, and many others. Her work has been featured on news outlets like PBS, NPR, Time, Teen Vogue, Huffington Post, and others.
2018 Featured Author: R.O. Kwon
R.O. Kwon’s first novel, The Incendiaries, is forthcoming from Riverhead (U.S.) and Virago (U.K.) in July of 2018. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Vice, BuzzFeed, Noon, Time, Electric Literature, Playboy, San Francisco Chronicle, and elsewhere.
2018 Featured Author: Lynell George
Lynell George is an LA-based journalist and essayist. She has had a long career in LA journalism as a staff writer for both The Los Angeles Times and L.A. Weekly—focusing on social issues, human behavior, and identity politics as well as visual arts, music, and literature. Her writings have appeared in several essay collections. Read More …