[Cwgrad-announcements] It's Riverside Month in Los Feliz!! March Events at Skylight Books

[Robin Russin]

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> MARCH EVENTS AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS
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> -- T COOPER and CHRIS ABANI
> -- KATE DURBIN, JOSHUA HARDINA, GABRIELA JAUREGUI and KY-PHONG TRAN  
> (UC Riverside MFA Program)
> -- DANIEL ALARCON
> -- ALEX ESPINOZA
> -- DINAH LENNEY
> -- SUZAN-LORI PARKS in conversation with Jessica Kubzansky, Co- 
> Artistic Director of The Theatre @ Boston Court
> -- LARRY FONDATION
> -- DENNIS COOPER, STANYA KAHN, AARON NIELSEN, JACK SHAMAMA,  
> GARRISON TAYLOR, BETT WILLIAMS
> -- CalArts MFA Writing Grads I: Allison Carter, Daiana Feuer, Cory  
> Garfin, Maximus Kim, Daniel Ruiz
> -- CalArts MFA Writing Grads II: Honey Crawford, David P. Earle,  
> Leila Nichols, Gerard Olson, Nadine Rambeau
> -- EILEEN MYLES
> -- Upcoming in April
> -- Our Location:
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> Spring is almost here (by the way, we were reminded that Daylight  
> Savings Time changes on a different week this year - March 10/11)!  
> And on St. Patrick's Day (March 17), our staff decided you should  
> get 10% off for any book that has a (mostly) green cover!! We'll  
> display a few of them for you to get you in the mood.
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> If you are a regular customer, sign up for our Frequent Buyer  
> program (if you buy $500 w/in a year, you get 10% off for a year).  
> And don't forget you get 10% off your purchases if it's your birthday!
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> Outside the bookstore:
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> March 16 at the Westin Pasadena: Children's Books and Literacy  
> Dinner sponsored by the So. Cal Independent Booksellers Assoc. ($75/ 
> person up to March 5); Open to all but of special interest to  
> teachers, librarians, school administrators. For more info
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> At the Los Feliz Branch Library on Thursday, March 29 at 6:45 (free!):
> Robert Leary, President of the Ennis Foundation, (1874 Hillhurst  
> Ave.) We'll be there with books.
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> T COOPER and CHRIS ABANI
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>  Thursday, March 1 at 7:30 p.m.
> Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes (Plume Books) and The Virgin of  
> Flames (Penguin)
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> T Cooper's innovative novel blends historical fiction, gender,  
> identity and family into a tour-de-force. "This kooky but strangely  
> compelling story. . . resonates long after the book has been closed."
> --The N.Y. Times Book Review
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> In a recent interview in The Believer, it was noted that Nigerian- 
> born writer Chris Abani "was arrested and imprisoned on suspicion  
> of masterminding a political coup. The evidence: his first novel, a  
> political thriller written two years earlier, when the novelist was  
> just sixteen years old. Since then, Abani has been imprisoned twice  
> more, sentenced to death, tortured by electric shock; he has also  
> thwarted assassins, published two books of poetry, written eight  
> novels (published two) and won numerous literary awards."
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> And now he credits his home in Boyle Heights with inspiring this  
> new novel, which follows an African and Latino mural painter from  
> East L.A. named Black, who is driven but emotionally and sexually  
> disoriented.
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> You'll want to be here for these two remarkable writers!
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> more info...
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> KATE DURBIN, JOSHUA HARDINA, GABRIELA JAUREGUI and KY-PHONG TRAN  
> (UC Riverside MFA Program)
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> Friday, March 2 at 7:30 p.m.
> Graduate Writing students from the UC Riverside MFA Program read  
> from new work.
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> DANIEL ALARCON
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>  Tuesday, March 6 at 7:30 p.m.
> Lost City Radio(Harper)
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> Stunning, timely, and absolutely mesmerizing, "Lost City Radio"  
> probes the deepest questions of war and its meaning: from its  
> devastating impact on a society transformed by violence to the  
> emotional scarring each participant, observer, and survivor carries  
> for years after. This tender debut marks Alarcón's emergence as a  
> major new voice in American fiction.
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> more info...
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> ALEX ESPINOZA
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>  Saturday, March 10 at 5 p.m.
> Still Water Saints (Random House)
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> “Alex Espinoza is poised to become the Faulkner of his own haunted  
> landscape, that of the Agua Mansa community of inland southern  
> California."
> — Susan Straight
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> “...a story cycle of tales as perfect as the beads of a  
> rosary ...capable of renewing one’s faith in new fiction. There is  
> something at once innocent as well as wise in this writer’s voice,  
> a generosity for the citizens he writes about, folks barely  
> scraping to get by.”
> —Sandra Cisneros
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> Alex Espinoza was born in Tijuana, Mexico in 1971, the youngest of  
> 11 children. He graduated with a BA from UC Riverside, and with a  
> MFA in Writing from UC Irvine. Alex Espinoza currently teaches  
> Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside.
> (photo credit: Kyle Behen)
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> more info
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> DINAH LENNEY
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>  Sunday, March 11 at 5 p.m.
> Bigger Than Life: A Murder, A Memoir (Univ. of Nebraska Press)
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> “A brilliant contribution to autobiographical, literary non-...a  
> model of engaged and engaging memoir-writing.”
> —Phillip Lopate
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> more info
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> SUZAN-LORI PARKS in conversation with Jessica Kubzansky, Co- 
> Artistic Director of The Theatre @ Boston Court
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>  Thursday, March 15 at 7:30 p.m.
> 365 Days/365 Plays (Theatre Communications Group)
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> Named one of Time magazine’s “100 Innovators for the Next New  
> Wave,” Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most exciting and acclaimed  
> playwrights in American drama today. She is the first African  
> American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for the  
> Broadway hit Topdog/Underdog and is a MacArthur “Genius” Award  
> recipient, among her many other honors.
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> 365 Days/365 Plays started in November 2002 when Parks committed to  
> writing a play a day for the next 365 days. It is being produced in  
> over 700 theatres worldwide, creating one of the largest grassroots  
> collaborations in theater history.
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> She credits her writing teacher and mentor, James Baldwin, for  
> starting her on the path of playwrighting. One of the first to  
> recognize Parks’ writing skills, Mr. Baldwin declared Parks “an  
> astonishing and beautiful creature who may become one of the most  
> valuable artists of our time.”
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> more info
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> LARRY FONDATION
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>  Friday, March 16 at 7:30 p.m.
> Fish, Soap and Bonds (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
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> Fondation is the author of the novel Angry Nights and of Common  
> Criminals, a collection of short stories. The two books are part of  
> a planned sequence of five books of fiction focusing on the Los  
> Angeles underbelly.
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> Fondation has lived in LA since the 1980s and worked for fifteen  
> years as an organizer in South Central Los Angeles, Compton, and  
> East LA. His fiction and non-fiction has appeared in a range of  
> diverse publications including Flaunt (where he is Special  
> Correspondent), Fiction International, Quarterly West, the Los  
> Angeles Times and the Harvard Business Review.
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> "I think Los Angeles reveals itself most at the margins. On the  
> street corners, in bars and nightclubs. In the sounds of the  
> traffic, police sirens and helicopters, in the words and music of  
> local bands."
> —-Larry Fondation
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> DENNIS COOPER, STANYA KAHN, AARON NIELSEN, JACK SHAMAMA, GARRISON  
> TAYLOR, BETT WILLIAMS
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>  Monday, March 19 at 7:30 p.m.
> Userlands: New Fiction Writers from the Blogging Underground edited  
> by Dennis Cooper (Akashic Books)
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> From Dennis Cooper: "In the early '90s, I edited an anthology  
> called Discontents that documented the amazing creativity of the  
> young writers and artists involved in the then-exploding queer zine  
> phenomenon. The book, now considered a classic, is currently being  
> taught in numerous universities and features a number of new  
> writers who have since gone on to be well-known and important  
> figures: David Sedaris, Dale Peck, Dorothy Allison, Scott Heim,  
> Eileen Myles, and others.
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> With the advent of the Internet, the energy and talent that  
> produced the zine movement gradually moved online, and that same  
> vitality now fuels the similarly grassroots if higher-tech  
> phenomenon of blogging, with individual blogs forming the  
> early-21st-century equivalent of the zine. The blog has provided a  
> new kind of forum for new writers to disseminate their work and  
> form mutually interested and supportive communities outside the  
> major publishing industry, whose conservatism and biases toward  
> university-trained fiction writers is well-known.
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> Dennis Cooper is the editor of the imprint Little House on the  
> Bowery/Akashic Books. He is author of eight novels, most recently  
> God Jr.,/I. (Grove Press) and ,I.The Sluts,/I. (Carroll & Graf.)  
> His novels have been translated into eighteen foreign languages. He  
> has guest-edited sections of fiction and nonfiction for Bookforum,  
> Nerve, the L.A. Weekly Literary Supplement, the Village Voice  
> Literary Supplement, and other publications. He is a Contributing  
> Editor of Artforum Magazine.
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> more info
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> CalArts MFA Writing Grads I: Allison Carter, Daiana Feuer, Cory  
> Garfin, Maximus Kim, Daniel Ruiz
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> Saturday, March 24 at 5 p.m.
> NextWords: Graduating students of the CalArts MFA Writing Program  
> read new work.
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> This is part of a series of readings presented by The CalArts MFA  
> Writing Program and the CalArts School of Critical Studies. The  
> readings and performances will include work that crosses genres,  
> engages hybrid forms, and questions the distinction between the  
> experimental and the conventional.
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> CalArts MFA Writing Grads II: Honey Crawford, David P. Earle, Leila  
> Nichols, Gerard Olson, Nadine Rambeau
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> Friday, March 30 at 7:30 p.m.
> NextWords: Graduating students of the CalArts MFA Writing Program  
> read new work.
>
> This is part of a series of readings presented by The CalArts MFA  
> Writing Program and the CalArts School of Critical Studies. The  
> readings and performances will include work that crosses genres,  
> engages hybrid forms, and questions the distinction between the  
> experimental and the conventional.
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> EILEEN MYLES
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>  Saturday, March 31 at 7:30 p.m.
> Sorry, Tree (Wave Books)
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> Bust magazine calls her "the rock star of modern poetry" and The  
> New York Times says she's "a cult figure to a generation of post- 
> punk females forming their own literary avant garde."
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> Her new book of poetry is sexy, cool and uncompromising— securing  
> Myles' eminence as America's most fearless poet. Her trademark punk  
> sensibility and intimate knowledge of poetic tradition are at work  
> in this eighth collection where every love poem is politic...
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> [photo by Amy Steiner]
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> more info
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> Upcoming in April
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> (Check the website for changes and updates)
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> Sun, April 1 at 2 p.m.
> Free Poetry Month Workshop
> Sun, April 1 at 5 p.m.
> Poet Terry Wolverton
> Sat, April 7 at 5 p.m.
> Valentino Achak Deng (the subject of Dave Eggers' What is the What?
> Weds, April 11 at 7:30 p.m.
> Jonathan Lethem
> Thus, April 12 at 7:30 p.m.
> Denise Hamilton, Jim Pascoe, Diana Wagman
> Fri, April 13 at 7:30 p.m.
> Joshua Ferris
> Sun, April 22 at 5 p.m.
> Felicia Luna Lemus
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> SKYLIGHT BOOKS
> 1818 N. Vermont Ave (in Los Feliz; between Hollywood Blvd &  
> Franklin; next to Los Feliz Cinema)
> Los Angeles, CA 90027
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> (323) 660-1175
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> 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily
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