Litcrawl continues in San Francisco “Our eight days of programming will feature more than 50 events and more authors than you can shake (or throw) a drink at in venues ranging from the swank to the rank — plush theaters, nice bars, dive bars, galleries, retail outlets, libraries, laundromats — and even bookstores.”
Stories in Events and festivals:
Book fest weekend in California
Interesting story in the Carmel Pine Cone about Jim and Cindy McGillen, a semi-retired TV couple that spent more than $320,000 to host this weekend’s first-ever Carmel Authors and Ideas Festival.
They lined up a collection of top authors to appear. Tickets are $500 each.
“No offense to Toledo, but I was not asking people to [...]
More on Literacy Month
Donna’s update: I spent Monday evening at the Downey Public Library talking about My California with a very enthusiastic group that included many of the city’s volunteer reading tutors.
Librarian Claudia Dailey mentioned a surprising statistic: that 27 percent of adults in Los Angeles County are not fully literate. So Claudia and her wonderful [...]
Tonight
The Downey Public Library celebrates National Literacy Month by reading My California: Journeys by Great Writers. Join Donna, the editor of My California, at 7 p.m. for a book talk and signing. Details.
Aloud resumes
Downtown News features the Los Angeles Central Library’s popular Aloud program, which ended its monthlong hiatus this week. Poet Marisela Norte calls the author lecture series “one of the last bastions of civilization in the city.” Read more.
Boyle honored
The board of the Santa Barbara Book and Author Festival has chosen novelist T.C. Boyle for the 2007 Ross Macdonald Award, an honor handed out annually to “a California writer whose life work raises the standards of literary excellence.” Boyle will receive the award and give a reading at this year’s festival, the weekend of [...]
Best Place to Meet a Famous Author
Aloud at Central Library.
…so sez LA’s Downtown News in its annual best of the city round up.
Grape Expectations
The Long Beach Public Library Foundation holds its annual fundraising extravaganza on Sunday, June 24. Tickets are still available, though you don’t have to attend to support this great cause. Check out the library foundation’s new online auction. Lotsa great goodies: Trips to London and Broadway and Cabo! Catered feasts great and small! Spa days! [...]
Overheard (fairly) recently at the celebrity spelling bee in San Francisco
• “I believe it’s a very poor writer who can’t spell a word more than one way.” — novelist Tobias Wolff
• “I’m here because I’m a publisher and a writer. This is the scene in which I swim in. And, yes, I’m here because there’s free vodka.” — Heyday Books founder Malcolm Margolin
• “It’s [...]
This weekend in LA
Kerry Slattery at Skylight Books sends word about Sunday’s Los Feliz Village Street Fair:
This terrific annual street fair is truly a neighborhood fest — our local restaurants, shops, businesses sponsor booths all down Vermont Ave from Hollywood Blvd to Franklin. The street will be closed to traffic for the day. Of course, our store [...]
Where she is from
Joan Didion returns to LA on Monday, May 7. She’ll be speaking at 8 p.m. the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion as part of the 2007 Music Center Speaker Series.
The Music Center has a special deal for CaliforniaAuthors.com readers — discounted Didion tickets. Click here to order online. (For $10 off Silver Level Seating use this [...]
My California Festival of Books
Join My California contributors at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at UCLA. See you at the Angel City Press booth near Royce Hall. On Saturday: Aimee Liu, Edward Humes, Donna Wares, Deanne Stillman (11 a.m.-noon); D.J. Waldie (noon-1 p.m.); Veronique de Turenne, David Kipen (1-2 p.m.); Carolyn See (3-4 p.m.) On Sunday: T. [...]
Four for the calendar in March
Local interest on Thursday, March 8: Three authors discuss their Oakland-oriented book projects. Speaking: Erica Mailman, Oakland’s Neighborhoods; Jeff Norman, Temescal Legacies; and Ly Nguyen, contributor to As Is, an anthology of visual and literary art by the Vietnamese Artist Collective. 6-8 p.m. Oakland Main Library. More info.
Acting out on Friday, March 9: The New [...]
411
Ghost Word points us to Kemble Scott’s handy San Francisco Bay Area Literary Arts Newsletter, a Friday round up of book and author events for the week ahead.
Digitize Me?
UC Irvine holds a public conference Thursday and Friday that takes up this important question: Is there a future for books? OC Register writer Gary Robbins explains, “The meeting’s specific title is Text and Image: From Book History to ‘The Book is History.’ And some heavy hitters are on the schedule. They include Daniel [...]
A January tradition
Deborah Schoch explores Long Beach’s popular Literary Women festival, which drew 720 readers to the Long Beach Convention Center this weekend. “You look up,” says attendee Megan Johnson, “and you see this overwhelming mass of women coming at you with piles of books.” Read more in the LAT.
Book fest weekend in California
Interesting story in the Carmel Pine Cone about Jim and Cindy McGillen, a semi-retired TV couple that spent more than $320,000 to host this weekend’s first-ever Carmel Authors and Ideas Festival.
They lined up a collection of top authors to appear. Tickets are $500 each.
“No offense to Toledo, but I was not asking people to [...]
More on Literacy Month
Donna’s update: I spent Monday evening at the Downey Public Library talking about My California with a very enthusiastic group that included many of the city’s volunteer reading tutors.
Librarian Claudia Dailey mentioned a surprising statistic: that 27 percent of adults in Los Angeles County are not fully literate. So Claudia and her wonderful [...]
Tonight
The Downey Public Library celebrates National Literacy Month by reading My California: Journeys by Great Writers. Join Donna, the editor of My California, at 7 p.m. for a book talk and signing. Details.
Aloud resumes
Downtown News features the Los Angeles Central Library’s popular Aloud program, which ended its monthlong hiatus this week. Poet Marisela Norte calls the author lecture series “one of the last bastions of civilization in the city.” Read more.
Boyle honored
The board of the Santa Barbara Book and Author Festival has chosen novelist T.C. Boyle for the 2007 Ross Macdonald Award, an honor handed out annually to “a California writer whose life work raises the standards of literary excellence.” Boyle will receive the award and give a reading at this year’s festival, the weekend of [...]
Best Place to Meet a Famous Author
Aloud at Central Library.
…so sez LA’s Downtown News in its annual best of the city round up.
Grape Expectations
The Long Beach Public Library Foundation holds its annual fundraising extravaganza on Sunday, June 24. Tickets are still available, though you don’t have to attend to support this great cause. Check out the library foundation’s new online auction. Lotsa great goodies: Trips to London and Broadway and Cabo! Catered feasts great and small! Spa days! [...]
Overheard (fairly) recently at the celebrity spelling bee in San Francisco
• “I believe it’s a very poor writer who can’t spell a word more than one way.” — novelist Tobias Wolff
• “I’m here because I’m a publisher and a writer. This is the scene in which I swim in. And, yes, I’m here because there’s free vodka.” — Heyday Books founder Malcolm Margolin
• “It’s [...]
This weekend in LA
Kerry Slattery at Skylight Books sends word about Sunday’s Los Feliz Village Street Fair:
This terrific annual street fair is truly a neighborhood fest — our local restaurants, shops, businesses sponsor booths all down Vermont Ave from Hollywood Blvd to Franklin. The street will be closed to traffic for the day. Of course, our store [...]
Where she is from
Joan Didion returns to LA on Monday, May 7. She’ll be speaking at 8 p.m. the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion as part of the 2007 Music Center Speaker Series.
The Music Center has a special deal for CaliforniaAuthors.com readers — discounted Didion tickets. Click here to order online. (For $10 off Silver Level Seating use this [...]
My California Festival of Books
Join My California contributors at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at UCLA. See you at the Angel City Press booth near Royce Hall. On Saturday: Aimee Liu, Edward Humes, Donna Wares, Deanne Stillman (11 a.m.-noon); D.J. Waldie (noon-1 p.m.); Veronique de Turenne, David Kipen (1-2 p.m.); Carolyn See (3-4 p.m.) On Sunday: T. [...]
Four for the calendar in March
Local interest on Thursday, March 8: Three authors discuss their Oakland-oriented book projects. Speaking: Erica Mailman, Oakland’s Neighborhoods; Jeff Norman, Temescal Legacies; and Ly Nguyen, contributor to As Is, an anthology of visual and literary art by the Vietnamese Artist Collective. 6-8 p.m. Oakland Main Library. More info.
Acting out on Friday, March 9: The New [...]
411
Ghost Word points us to Kemble Scott’s handy San Francisco Bay Area Literary Arts Newsletter, a Friday round up of book and author events for the week ahead.
Digitize Me?
UC Irvine holds a public conference Thursday and Friday that takes up this important question: Is there a future for books? OC Register writer Gary Robbins explains, “The meeting’s specific title is Text and Image: From Book History to ‘The Book is History.’ And some heavy hitters are on the schedule. They include Daniel [...]
A January tradition
Deborah Schoch explores Long Beach’s popular Literary Women festival, which drew 720 readers to the Long Beach Convention Center this weekend. “You look up,” says attendee Megan Johnson, “and you see this overwhelming mass of women coming at you with piles of books.” Read more in the LAT.
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