Skylight Books Podcast Series

JULIE LYTHCOTT-HAIMS DISCUSSES HER MEMOIR REAL AMERICAN

04 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Real American: A Memoir (Henry Holt & Company) Julie Lythcott-Haims, the New York Times bestselling author of How to Raise an Adult, has written a ...

JOHN FREEMAN DISCUSSES FREEMAN'S: THE FUTURE OF NEW WRITING WITH HECTOR TOBAR, GARNETTE CADOGAN, AND DIEGO ENRIQUE OSORNO

04 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Freeman's: The Future of New Writing (Grove Press) Please join us for an evening with John Freeman and Hector Tobar and two contributors to the n...

JESSICA BRUDER DISCUSSES HER BOOK NOMADLAND

25 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (W.W. Norton & Company) In recent years, many Americans have had to face tough new realities...

EMILY GEMINDER READS FROM HER DEBUT COLLECTION DEAD GIRLS AND OTHER STORIES WITH BRANDI WELLS

25 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Dead Girls and Other Stories (Dzanc Books) With lyric artistry and emotional force, Emily Geminder’s debut collection charts a vivid constellation ...

NINA WEIJERS READS FROM HER DEBUT THE CONSEQUENCES WITH MEREDITH ALLING

25 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Consequences (DoppelHouse Press) Dutch author Niña Weijers took the world of European literature by storm in 2014 with her debut novel The Cons...

EILEEN MYLES DISCUSSES THEIR MEMOIR AFTERGLOW

25 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Afterglow (a dog memoir) (Grove Press) Prolific and widely renowned poet, novelist, and essayist Eileen Myles is a trailblazer whose decades of liter...

CARI LYNN WITH SAUL SARABIA, ANTOINETTE CARTER, AND TIFFANY JOHNSON DISCUSS BECOMING MS. BURTON

26 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Becoming Ms. Burton (New Press) Becoming Ms. Burton is one woman's remarkable odyssey from tragedy to prison to recovery--and recognition as a leadi...

MICHELLE TEA DISCUSSES HER BOOK MODERN TAROT

26 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Modern Tarot (HarperElixir) Literary icon Michelle Tea offers fresh new take on tarot that encourages self-love, personal growth and self-discovery. ...

PEN CENTER USA PRESENTS THE 2018 EMERGING VOICES MEET AND GREET

26 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellowship Meet and Greet Los Angeles Join Emerging Voices Fellows, Alumni, and Mentors in Conversation for the 2018 Ap...

JENNIFER ROMOLINI DISCUSSES HER BOOK WEIRD IN A WORLD THAT'S NOT

25 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Weird in a World That's Not: A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups, and Failures (HarperBusiness) Are you “awkward?” Do you often feel like a spiky...

ISRAEL CENTENO READS FROM HIS NEW NOVEL THE CONSPIRACY

11 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Conspiracy (Phoneme Media) When leftist revolutionary Sergio's sniper shot misses the President of Venezuela, he's thrown into a sudden tailspin...

DANIEL RILEY READS FROM HIS NOVEL FLY ME AND ROSECRANS BALDWIN READS FROM HIS NOVEL THE LAST KID LEFT

11 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Fly Me (Little Brown & Company) The year is 1972 and Suzy Whitman arrives in Sela del Mar, a debaucherous beach town in the shadows of LAX, lured ac...

ANNE-CHRISTINE D'ADESKY DISCUSSES HER BOOK THE POX LOVER WITH COUNCILMEMBER LINDSEY HORVATH

11 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Pox Lover: An Activist's Decade in New York and Paris (University of Wisconsin Press) www.thepoxlover.com The Pox Lover is a personal history ...

ELIZABETH CRANE READS FROM HER NEW NOVEL TURF

11 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Turf (Counterpoint Press) Blazing through states, cities, towns, continents, Crane fearlessly pivots from micro to macro, humor to tragedy, past to p...

RAFE BARTHOLOMEW DISCUSSES HIS MEMOIR TWO AND TWO

11 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Two and Two (Little, Brown and Company) McSorley’s Old Ale House is not just a bar—it’s a home to all walks of life that has stood the test o...

JESS ARNDT DISCUSSES HER NEW SHORT STORY COLLECTION LARGE ANIMALS, WITH MAGGIE NELSON

11 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Large Animals (Catapult) Jess Arndt's striking debut collection confronts what it means to have a body. Boldly straddling the line between the imagi...

UC IRVINE MFA STUDENTS READ FROM THEIR WORK 2017

10 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us as students from the MFA Program at UC Irvine read from their work.  Readers include:  Jack Foraker is from Davis, California.  Cor...

TOMMY PICO READS FROM HIS NEW BOOK OF POETRY NATURE POEM, TOGETHER WITH MELISSA BRODER

10 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

  Nature Poem (Tin House Books) Nature Poem follows Teebs―a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet―who can’t bring himself to write a na...

GRAHAM CHAFFEE DISCUSSES HIS GRAPHIC NOVEL TO HAVE AND TO HOLD WITH SAMMY HARKHAM

29 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

To Have and to Hold (Fantagraphics Books) Couched in the traditional trappings of a noir heist thriller, Graham Chaffee’s To Have and To Hold is ...

KELLY LYTLE HERNANDEZ DISCUSSES HER BOOK CITY OF INMATES

29 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965 (University of North Carolina Press) Los Angeles incarce...

PETER ROCK DISCUSSES HIS NEW BOOK SPELLS

15 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Spells (Counterpoint Press) Acclaimed author Peter Rock’s interest in using images for storytelling began while working as a security guard in an ...

ADA CALHOUN DISCUSSES HER BOOK WEDDING TOASTS I'LL NEVER GIVE WITH DAVY

15 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give (W.W. Norton & Company) In July of 2015, the New York Times “Modern Love” column published Ada Calhoun’s essay...

JAKE GERHARDT READS FROM HIS NEW BOOK MY FUTURE EX-GIRLFRIEND

15 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

My Future Ex-Girlfriend (Viking Books for Young Readers) In Me and Miranda Mullaly, three eighth-grade boys struggled to win the affections of one g...

MAT CALLAHAN DISCUSSES HIS BOOK THE EXPLOSION OF DEFERRED DREAMS WITH PAT THOMAS

15 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco, 1965–1975 (PM Press) As the fiftieth anniversary of t...

GUY DELISLE DISCUSSES HIS NONFICTION GRAPHIC NOVEL HOSTAGE, WITH DAVID ULIN

15 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Hostage (Drawn + Quarterly)  Join award-winning cartoonist Guy Delisle (Pyongyang, Jerusalem, Shenzhen, Burma Chronicles) for the launch of his hi...

JANET SARBANES DISCUSSES HER SHORT STORY COLLECTION THE PROTESTER HAS BEEN RELEASED, WITH MAGGIE NELSON

15 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Protester Has Been Released (C&R Press) Populated by wise animals and hapless humans, Protester brilliantly evokes an end-of-the-world feeling t...

RACHEL NAGELBERG READS FROM HER DEBUT NOVEL THE FIFTH WALL WITH STEPHEN BEACHY

15 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Eartha (Fantagraphics) Eartha is Cathy Malkasian’s fourth graphic novel — a metaphorical fable that resonates with contemporary themes. For a th...

OTIS COLLEGE GRADUATE WRITING STUDENTS READ FROM THEIR WORK

15 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Join us as students from the Otis College of Art and Design MFA Writing Class of 2017 read their work.  Readers will include:  George Fekaris g...

DOREE SHAFRIR READS FROM HER NOVEL STARTUP WITH JADE CHANG

15 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Startup (Little Brown and Company) Doree Shafrir’s hilarious, smart debut Startup is set in the heart of New York City’s tech industry, where...

ZACHARY MASON READS FROM HIS NEWEST BOOK VOID STAR

15 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Void Star (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) A riveting, beautifully written, fugue-like novel of AIs, memory, violence, and mortality, Not far in the future ...

BRIAN MCGREEVY READS FROM HIS NOVEL THE LIGHTS WITH GRACE PARRA

15 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Lights (Rare Bird Books) A broken love letter to an ex-boyfriend, The Lights navigates the self-destruction and hopeful redemption of a writer...

LINDSAY HUNTER READS FROM HER NOVEL EAT ONLY WHEN YOU'RE HUNGRY WITH ROXANE GAY

14 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Eat Only When You're Hungry (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) A father searches for his addict son while grappling with his own choices as a parent (and as a ...

WRITERS AT WORK 20TH ANNIVERSARY READING

07 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Writers At Work--20th Anniversary Reading, Celebrating National Poetry Month featuring Poets At Work and alumnae. MEMBERS OF POETS AT WORK READ NEW ...

CECIL CASTELLUCCI AND JOSE PIMIENTA READ THEIR NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL SOUPY LEAVES HOME

07 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Soupy Leaves Home (Dark Horse Books) Two misfits with no place to call home take a train-hopping journey from the cold heartbreak of their Eastern h...

KRISTEN RADTKE DISCUSSES HER NEW GRAPHIC MEMOIR IMAGINE WANTING ONLY THIS WITH JORDAN CRANE AND LIBBY FLORES

07 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine Wanting Only This (Pantheon Books) When Kristen Radtke was in college, the sudden death of a beloved uncle and, not long after his funeral,...

SELFISH LAUNCHES ISSUE FIVE: VOID OF COURSE

04 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Selfish Issue Five: Void of Course True to its name, “void of course” leaves the familiar for the uncertain, the inconclusive, the esoteric. feat...

ALESHEA HARRIS AND ALEXANDER BORINSKY READ FROM AND DISCUSS THEIR NEW PLAYS IS GOD IS AND BRIEF CHRONICLE: BOOKS 6-8

04 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Is God Is, Brief Chronicle (Books 6-8) (3 Hole Press) 3 Hole Press is a small press bringing new audiences to new plays in printed formats. To cele...

CALARTS MFA STUDENTS READ FROM THEIR WORK

03 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Join us for NEXTWORDS, the annual reading series organized, curated by and featuring graduating MFA students of CalArts' Creative Writing Program. E...

ANNABELLE GURWITCH LAUNCHES HER NEW COLLECTION OF ESSAYS WHEREVER YOU GO, THERE THEY ARE, WITH JONATHAN GOLD

03 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Wherever You Go, There They Are (Blue Rider Press) There’s an old adage: You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family. But is that...

SCOT SOTHERN READS FROM HIS NOVEL BIGCITY

03 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

BigCity (Stalking Horse Press) Scot Sothern’s profane western satire, BigCity, is a novel with an unforgettable cast, including the wild and leth...

CATRIONA WARD DISCUSSES HER NOVEL THE GIRL FROM RAWBLOOD WITH MIKE MIGNOLA AND DEVIN GRIFFITHS

03 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Girl from Rawblood (Sourcebooks Landmark) For generations the Villarcas have died mysteriously, and young. Now Iris and her father will finally u...

JONATHAN LETHEM DISCUSSES HIS BOOK MORE ALIVE AND LESS LONELY, WITH JARETT KOBEK

03 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers (Melville House Publishing) A collection of bestselling, NBCC prize-winning author Jonathan Lethem’...

SIEL JU READS FROM HER DEBUT NOVEL CAKE TIME WITH GUESTS

01 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Cake Time (Red Hen Press) Daring yet aimless, smart but slightly strange, Cake Time’s young female protagonist keeps making slippery choices, slid...

JENNY NORDBAK DISCUSSES HER BOOK THE SCARLETT LETTERS

01 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Scarlett Letters: My Secret Year of Men in an L.A. Dungeon (St. Martins Press) Jenny Nordbak takes us to a place that few have seen, but millions...

RON REGE JR AND MAJA D'AOUST DISCUSS CARTOON UTOPIA AND WHAT PARSIFAL SAW

01 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Cartoon Utopia and What Parsifal Saw (Fantagraphics Books) Join surreal cartoonist Ron Rege Jr. (The Cartoon Utopia) and author Maja D'Aoust (The ...

ELIZA WHEELER READS FROM HER BOOK JOHN RONALD'S DRAGONS

31 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

John Ronald's Dragons: The Story of J.R. R. Tolkien (MacMillan Children's Publishing Group) A captivating picture book biography of a boy who imagine...

BETH PRATT-BERGSTROM DISCUSSES HER BOOK WHEN MOUNTAIN LIONS ARE NEIGHBORS

31 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

When Mountain Lions are Neighbors: People and Wildlife Working It Out In California (Heydey Books) Did you know that a mountain lion, known as P-22, ...

PEN CENTER USA PRESENTS THE 2018 EMERGING VOICES MEET AND GREET

31 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Join Emerging Voices Fellows, Alumni, and Mentors in Conversation for the 2018 Application Cycle at Skylight Books. PEN Center USA presents summer coc...

JEFF SOLOMON DISCUSSES HIS BOOK SO FAMOUS AND SO GAY

31 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

So Famous and So Gay: The Fabulous Potency of Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein (University of Minnesota Press) How and why, in a time of homophobia a...

RACHEL NAGELBERG READS FROM HER DEBUT NOVEL THE FIFTH WALL WITH STEPHEN BEACHY

25 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Fifth Wall (Black Sparrow Books) In this debut novel by Rachel Nagelberg, conceptual artist Sheila B. Ackerman heeds a mysterious urge to return...

DANIEL JOSE RUIZ READS FROM HIS DEBUT NOVEL COCONUT VERSUS WITH BRUCE BAUMAN

05 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Coconut Versus (Floricanto Press) This powerful and tempestuous coming-of- age novel follows a young man on the outside looking in, an interloper w...

MPEN USA PRESENTS YA RESISTS: YOUNG ADULT AUTHORS READ OUT

05 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

PEN USA presents YA Resists: Young Adult Authors Read Out  Join PEN Center USA and Skylight Books as we host 12 young adult authors reading about r...

DEEPAK UNNIKRISHNAN READS FROM HIS DEBUT NOVEL TEMPORARY PEOPLE

05 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Temporary People (Restless Books) In the United Arab Emirates, foreign nationals constitute over 80 percent of the population. Brought in to construc...

BEN BLATT DICUSSES HIS BOOK NABOKOV'S FAVORITE WORD IS MAUVE

05 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Nabokov’s Favorite Word is Mauve: What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing (Simon & Schuster) Nabokov’s Favo...

MEG HOWREY READS FROM HER NOVEL THE WANDERERS WITH CHARLES YU

05 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Wanderers (G.P. Putnam's Sons) Brilliantly imagined and wholly original, The Wanderers follows three astronauts as they audition for the first-...

KAYA PRESS PRESENTS KAZIM ALI, HARI ALLURI, AND SPECIAL GUEST ABEER Y. HOQUE

05 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Join us for an evening with authors from Kaya Press, the group of dedicated writers, artists, readers, and lovers of books working together to publis...

PATTY YUMI COTTRELL DISCUSSES HER NEW BOOK SORRY TO DISRUPT THE PEACE WITH AMINA CAIN

05 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Sorry to Disrupt the Peace (McSweeney's Books) Helen Moran is thirty-two years old, single, child-less, college-educated, and partially employed as a...

LAMBDA LITFEST PRESENTS INDIE VOICES FROM INDIE PRESSES

04 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Los Angeles-based authors Alex Espinoza, Dan Lopez, Wendy C. Ortiz, and Martin Pousson discuss the ways they found homes for their unique voices and t...

DAN CHAON READS FROM HIS NOVEL ILL WILL

01 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

ILL WILL (Ballentine Books) Have you ever thought to yourself, “did that really happen, or did I just imagine that to be true?” In Ill Will Dan ...

AMY GOODMAN DISCUSSES HER BOOK DEMOCRACY NOW! WITH CO-AUTHOR DENIS MOYNIHAN

01 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America (Simon & Schuster)  From the standoff at Standing Rock over the Dakota Access ...

PETE BEGLER READS HIS MIDDLE READER BOOK THE FEARLESS TRAVELERS' GUIDE TO WICKED PLACES

01 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Fearless Travelers' Guide to Wicked Places (Capstone Young Readers) Twelve-year-old Nell Perkins knows there is magic at work that she can't yet ...

RAMESH SRINIVASAN DISCUSSES HIS BOOK WHOSE GLOBAL VILLAGE? WITH RIGO 23

15 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Whose Global Village: Rethinking How Technology Shapes Our World (NYU Press) In Whose Global Village?, Ramesh Srinivasan explores how new technolog...

SARAH MANGUSO DISCUSSES HER NEW BOOK 300 ARGUMENTS WITH ETHAN NOSOWSK

14 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

300 Arguments (Graywolf Press) A “Proustian minimalist on the order of Lydia Davis” (Kirkus Reviews), Sarah Manguso is one of the finest literary...

JOHN DARNIELLE READS FROM HIS NEW NOVEL UNIVERSAL HARVESTER

14 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Universal Harvester (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Jeremy works at the Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa a small town in the center of the state, the first a in...

EMILY FRIDLUND READS FROM HER DEBUT NOVEL HISTORY OF WOLVES

14 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

History of Wolves (Grove Atlantic) History of Wolves is the story of fourteen-year- old Linda, who lives with her parents in an abandoned commune in...

VANESSA DAVIS LAUNCHES HER NEW GRAPHIC MEMOIR SPANIEL RAGE

14 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Spaniel Rage (Drawn & Quarterly) Join Los Angeles-based cartoonist Vanessa Davis as she presents her latest release Spaniel Rage: a collection of ...

JOANNA HOFFMAN READS FROM HER POETRY COLLECTION RUNNING FOR TRAP DOORS

14 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Running for Trap Doors (Sibling Rivalry Press) In her debut full-length poetry collection, Joanna Hoffman navigates family dynamics, lesbian bars, re...

DANIELLE KRYSA DISCUSSES HER BOOK YOUR INNER CRITIC IS A BIG JERK, WITH MARTHA RICH

14 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Your Inner Critic is a Big Jerk: And Other Truths About Being Creative (Chronicle Books) This book is duct tape for the mouth of every artist's inner...

STEVE ERICKSON READS FROM HIS NEW NOVEL SHADOWBAHN

14 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Shadowbahn (Blue Rider Press) In Granta Jonathan Lethem called Steve Erickson’s forthcoming novel Shadowbahn "Jaw-dropping … Erickson weaves ...

MARK SUNDEEN DISCUSSES HIS BOOK THE UNSETTLERS

14 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today's America (Riverhead Books) Today's Americans are looking to escape: faced with drastic increases...

UC RIVERSIDE MFA STUDENTS AND PROFESSORS READ FROM THEIR WORK

10 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Join us as professors and students from UC Riverside’s Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts MFA read from their work. Readers include...

JOEL WHITNEY DISCUSSES HIS NEW BOOK FINKS WITH NICK SCHOU

10 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers (Or Books)   When news broke that the CIA had colluded with literary magazines to produce cul...

VIET THANH NGUYEN READS FROM HIS NEW COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES THE REFUGEES

10 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Refugees (Grove Press) Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer was one of the most widely and highly praised novels of 2015, the winner not only ...

LIZBET SIMMONS DISCUSSES HER BOOK THE PRISON SCHOOL

10 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Prison School (UC Press) Public schools across the nation have turned to the criminal justice system as a gold standard of discipline. As public ...

SUSAN SHERMAN DISCUSSES HER NEW NOVEL IF YOU ARE THERE, WITH NATASHIA DEON

10 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

If You Are There (Counterpoint Press) Set in the early 1900s, If You Are There follows young Lucia Rutkowski who, thanks to the influence of her bel...

RACHEL KRAMER BUSSEL, JOCELYN BRINGAS, MELINA GREENPORT, AND JADE A. WATERS READ FROM THE NEW ANTHOLOGY BEST WOMEN'S EROTICA OF THE YEAR

10 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Best Women's Erotica of the Year, Volume 2 (Cleis Press) Join us for a night of readings from the Best Women's Erotica of  the Year series, featur...

MANJULA MARTIN DISCUSSES HER BOOK SCRATCH WITH JULIA FIERRO, SUSAN ORLEAN, KIMA JONES AND HARMONY HOLIDAY

10 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

SCRATCH: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living (Simon & Schuster) Based on the online magazine of the same name, SCRATCH: Writers, Money, an...

HENRIETTA ROSE-INNES LAUNCHES HER NEW NOVEL NINEVEH AND JULIE SHIGEKUNI LAUNCHES HER NOVEL IN PLAIN VIEW

03 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Nineveh (Unnamed Press)                     In Plain View (Unnamed Press) Join Skylight Books and Unnamed Press for a celebration of an...

MEREDITH ALLING READS FROM HER DEBUT COLLECTION OF STORIES SING THE SONG WITH SIEL JU

03 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Sing the Song (Future Tense Books) After steadily garnering attention and gaining fans with her appearances in various magazines and websites, Meredi...

UC RIVERSIDE MFA STUDENTS READ FROM THEIR WORK

03 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us this afternoon as students in the University of California, Riverside Master of Fine Arts writing program will read from their work. Re...

DAVID FRANCIS DISCUSSES HIS NEW NOVEL WEDDING BUSH ROAD, WITH DAN SMETANKA

27 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Wedding Bush Road (Counterpoint)  When he learns of his mother’s ailing health, Daniel Rawson must leave Los Angeles and travel half a world away ...

SARAH PAPPALARDO AND BETH NEWELL DISCUSS THEIR BOOK HOW TO WIN AT FEMINISM

27 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How to Win At Feminism: The Definitive Guide to Having It All—And Then Some! (HarperOne) Feminism is all about demanding equality and learning to ...

LEO BRAUDY DISCUSSES HIS BOOK HAUNTED

27 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds (Yale University Press) Leo Braudy, a fina...

ILLEANA DOUGLAS READS FROM HER MEMOIR I BLAME DENNIS HOPPER, WITH SPECIAL GUESTS JENNIFER TILLY, MATT OSWALT, ANNETTE O'TOOLE, BEN MANKIEWICZ, STEVEN WEBER, AND KATE MICUCCI

27 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

I Blame Dennis Hopper: And Other Stories From A Life Lived In and Out of the Movies (Flatiron Books) From award-winning actress Illeana Douglas comes...

JENNIFER BRODY READS FROM HER NEW YA NOVEL RETURN OF THE CONTINUUMS WITH ROMINA RUSSELL

26 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Return of the Continuums (Turner Publishing) One thousand years after a cataclysmic event leaves humanity on the brink of extinction, the descendants...

WENDY C. ORTIZ READS FROM HER NEW BOOK BRUJA AND HENRY HOKE READS FROM HIS BOOK THE BOOK OF ENDLESS SLEEPOVERS WITH OTHER SPECIAL GUESTS

26 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Bruja (Civil Coping Mechanism) Book of Endless Sleepovers (Civil Coping Mechanism) CCM is pleased to announce Bruja by Wendy C. Ortiz, the author ...

RAMESH SRINIVASAN DISCUSSES HIS BOOK WHOSE GLOBAL VILLAGE? WITH RIGO 23

26 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Whose Global Village: Rethinking How Technology Shapes Our World (NYU Press) In Whose Global Village?, Ramesh Srinivasan explores how new technolog...

NIA KING AND ELENA ROSE PRESENT QUEER & TRANS ARTISTS OF COLOR VOLUME 2 WITH SPECIAL GUESTS

14 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Queer & Trans Artists of Color Vol 2 A celebration of queer and trans black and brown genius...building on the groundbreaking first volume, Queer and ...

CYLIN BUSBY READS FROM HER NEW YA NOVEL THE STRANGER GAME

14 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Stranger Game (Balzer & Bray/HarperTeen) The Stranger Game is a dark, suspenseful, and twisty novel that is Gone Girl for teens. Perfect for fans...

SAM MCPHEETERS DISCUSSES HIS NEW BOOK EXPLODED VIEW

14 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Exploded View (Sky Horse Publishing) It's 2050, and LAPD Detective Terri Pastuzka has drawn the short straw with her first assignment of the new deca...

LAURENCE RICKELS DISCUSSES HIS NEW BOOK THE PSYCHO RECORDS

28 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Psycho Records (Wallflower Press) Skylight Books and Villa Aurora are proud to present Laurence A. Rickels, reading from his newest book The Psyc...

JESS ROTTER LAUNCHES HER NEW BOOK I'M BORED

28 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

I'm Bored (Hat & Beard Press) Jess Rotter: I'm Bored is a Gary-Larson-meets-The Muppets variety show, a terrific trip composed of drawings filled wi...

JOHN DARNIELLE READS FROM HIS NEW NOVEL UNIVERSAL HARVESTER

28 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Universal Harvester (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Jeremy works at the Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa a small town in the center of the state, the first a in...

STEVE ERICKSON READS FROM HIS NEW NOVEL SHADOWBAHN

28 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Shadowbahn (Blue Rider Press) In Granta Jonathan Lethem called Steve Erickson’s forthcoming novel Shadowbahn "Jaw-dropping … Erickson weaves ...

WHAT BOOKS PRESENTS CAROLIE PARKER, SARAH MACLAY, AND HOLADAY MASON

28 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What Books Press is proud to present two new books of LA poetry-- Mirage Industry, by Carolie Parker and The " She" Series: A Venice Correspondence, ...

EDEN SHER DISCUSSES HER NEW BOOK THE EMOTIONARY: A DICTIONARY OF WORDS THAT DON'T EXIST FOR FEELINGS THAT DO, WITH JULIA WERTZ

24 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The Emotionary: A Dictionary of Words That Don't Exist for Feelings That Do (Razorbill) Feeling guilty about wanting to just stay home and see no on...

LIDIJA DIMKOVSKA READS FROM HER NOVEL A SPARE LIFE

24 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A Spare Life (Two Lines Press) It is 1984, and 12-year- old twins Zlata and Srebra live in communist Yugoslavia. In many ways their lives are like t...

SHOCK AND AWE: GLAM ROCK AND ITS LEGACY, FROM THE SEVENTIES TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, WITH DEAN WAREHAM

24 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century (Dey Street Books) Following the musical innovations and cul...

MIKE MASSIMINO DISCUSSES HIS BOOK SPACEMAN

20 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceman: An Astronaut’s Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe (Crown Archetype) Mike Massimino’s childhood fascination with sp...

VANESSA HUA READS FROM HER DEBUT COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES DECEIT AND OTHER POSSIBILITIES, WITH NAOMI HIRAHARA

20 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Deceit and Other Possibilities (Willow Books) In this powerful debut collection, Vanessa Hua gives voice to immigrant families navigating a new Am...