Skylight Books Podcast Series

DIANA WAGMAN READS FROM HER NOVEL EXTRAORDINARY OCTOBER AND FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK READS FROM HER NOVEL THE ELEMENTALS

19 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

With the launch of her first young adult novel, Diana Wagman along with Francesca Lia Block will discuss crossover between the YA genre and adult fic...

JON KLASSEN LAUNCHES HIS NEW CHILDREN'S BOOK WE FOUND A HAT

19 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We Found a Hat (Candlewick Press) Hold on to your hats for the conclusion of the celebrated hat trilogy by Caldecott Medalist Jon Klassen. Two ...

MELISSA YANCY READS FROM HER NEW COLLECTION OF STORIES DOG YEARS

19 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Dog Years (University of Pittsburgh Press) Many of these richly layered stories juxtapose the miracles of modern medicine against the inescapable fr...

PHOEBE ROBINSON DISCUSSES HER BOOK YOU CAN'T TOUCH MY HAIR WITH MICHAELA WATKINS

19 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain (Plume Books) A keenly observed, humorous essay collection from celebrated stand-up...

MICAH PERKS READS FROM HER NEW NOVEL WHAT BECOMES US WITH MICHELLE TEA

19 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What Becomes Us (Outpost 19) In What Becomes Us, the new novel by Micah Perks, twin fetuses tell the story of their mild-mannered mother who abandon...

ROXANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ AND DINA GILIO-WHITAKER DISCUSS THEIR BOOK "ALL THE REAL INDIANS DIED OFF" AND 20 OTHER MYTHS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS

19 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

“All the Real Indians Died Off” and 20 Other Myths About Native Americans (Beacon Press) “All the Real Indians Died Off” and 20 Other Myths A...

KATE SCHATZ AND MIRIAM KLEIN STAHL PRESENT THEIR BOOK RAD WOMEN WORLDWIDE

16 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Athletes, Pirates And Punks, And  other revolutionaries who shaped history (Ten Speed Press) From the authors of t...

ALEXANDER MAKSIK DISCUSSES HIS NEW NOVEL SHELTER IN PLACE, WITH MARISA SILVER

16 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Shelter in Place (Europa Editions)   Set in the Pacific Northwest in the jittery, jacked-up early 1990s, Shelter in Place, by one of America’s mos...

MIKE ROBERTS READS FROM HIS DEBUT NOVEL CANNIBALS IN LOVE

16 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Cannibals in Love (FSG Originals) It’s strange to even think about, but an entire generation came of age in the world of George W. Bush and his ad...

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

16 Feb 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 ...

OTTESSA MOSHFEGH DISCUSSES HER NEW SHORT STORY COLLECTION HOMESICK FOR ANOTHER WORLD, WITH KRISTINE MCKENNA

16 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Homesick for Another World (Penguin Press) Ottessa Moshfegh's debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015. Garlanded with critical acc...

ALAN SEPINWALL DISCUSSES HIS BOOK TV: THE BOOK, WITH JON HAMM

15 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

TV (The Book) Two Experts Pick The Greatest American Shows of All Time (Grand Central Publishing) Is The Wire better than Breaking Bad? Is Cheers bet...

NIGHT OF SILENCED VOICES: A BANNED BOOKS WEEK CELEBRATION, WITH SPECIAL GUESTS STEPH CHA, NATASHIA DEON AND CHRIS TERRY

15 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Night of Silenced Voices: A Banned Books Week Celebration Join us as we—together with the Banned Books Week Coalition and partner bookstores around ...

JUAN GABRIEL VASQUEZ LAUNCHES HIS NEW NOVEL REPUTATIONS

15 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Reputations (Riverhead Books) Winner of several of the world’s most prestigious fiction prizes, including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary A...

BRYAN ALLEN FIERRO READS FROM HIS COLLECTION OF STORIES DODGER BLUE WILL FILL YOUR SOUL

02 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Dodger Blue Will Fill Your Soul (University of Arizona Press) Two brothers bury a statue of Saint Jude for their grieving nana. A Griffith Park astro...

NGŨGĨ WA THIONG'O DISCUSSES HIS NEW MEMOIR BIRTH OF A DREAM WEAVER

02 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Birth of a Dream Weaver (New Press) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s powerful new memoir, Birth of a Dream Weaver, chronicles the period in early 1960s Eas...

TEDDY WAYNE READS FROM HIS LATEST NOVEL LONER

02 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Loner (Simon & Schuster) From the award-winning author of The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, a propulsive novel about a meek Harvard freshman who beco...

CHRISTOPHER DEWAN READS FROM HIS NEW COLLECTION HOOPTY TIME MACHINES

02 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Hoopty Time Machines: fairy tales for grown ups (Atticus Books) Who Knew Godzilla Had a Poetic Side? Hoopty Time Machines. It’s fun to say, isn’t...

TIM MURPHY READS FROM HIS NOVEL CHRISTODORA WITH DARCY COSPER

28 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Christodora (Grove/Atlantic) In Christodora, Tim Murphy follows the lives of a diverse cast of characters who reside in and around an iconic apartme...

MARISA SILVER DISCUSSES HER NEW NOVEL LITTLE NOTHING, WITH SARAH SHUN-LIEN BYNUM

28 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

In an unnamed country at the beginning of the last century, a child called Pavla is born to peasant parents. Her arrival, fervently anticipated and co...

ZAN ROMANOFF READS FROM HER DEBUT NOVEL A SONG TO TAKE THE WORLD APART

28 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

A Song to Take the World Apart (Knopf) Hanging out with Chris was supposed to make Lorelei’s life normal. He’s cooler, he’s older, and he’s i...

FORREST STUART DISCUSSES HIS NEW BOOK DOWN, OUT AND UNDER ARREST

08 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Down, Out and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row (University of Chicago Press) In his first year working in Los Angeles’s Skid R...

ZENOBIA NEIL READS FROM HER DEBUT NOVEL PSYCHE UNBOUND

08 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Psyche Unbound (Tule Publishing) The celebrated beauty of Roman princess Psyche has enraged Venus, the Goddess of Love and Beauty. As punishment, Ps...

WILLIAM LUVAAS LAUNCHES HIS NEW NOVEL BENEATH THE COYOTE HILLS

07 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Beneath the Coyote Hills (Spuyten Duyvil Press) Please join us this afternoon for the official launch of local author William Luvaas's exciting new ...

GINA FRANGELLO READS FROM HER NEW BOOK EVERY KIND OF WANTING WITH MEREDITH MARAN

07 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Every Kind of Wanting (Counterpoint) Every Kind of Wanting explores the complex intersection of three unique families and their bustling efforts to...

AFFINITY KONAR READS FROM HER NOVEL MISCHLING

07 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Mischling (Lee Boudreaux Books) Mischling is indeed a paradox. The intangible magic of Konar’s novel is this: While it is set against a backdrop...

YVONNE PUIG READS FROM HER DEBUT NOVEL A WIFE OF NOBLE CHARACTER

22 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

A Wife of Noble Character (Henry Holt & Company) Imagine Edith Wharton’s Lily Bart transported from the Gilded Age to present-day Houston. Her wor...

DANA JOHNSON READS FROM HER NEW SHORT STORY COLLECTION IN THE NOT QUITE DARK

22 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

In the Not Quite Dark (Counterpoint Press) Following her prize-winning collection Break Any Woman Down, Dana Johnsonreturns with a collection of b...

EVAN KINDLEY DISCUSSES HIS NEW BOOK QUESTIONNAIRE WITH ROSTEN WOO

17 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Questionnaire (Bloomsbury) Questionnaires are everywhere: we fill them out at doctors' offices and at job interviews, to express ourselves and to ad...

CIVIL COPING MECHANISMS #RECURRENT LAUNCH WITH HAROLD ABRAMOWITZ AND JORDAN OKUMURA

17 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

#RECURRENT, is a new series at Civil Coping Mechanisms, which launches two titles in 2016 and is edited by Janice Lee, author of Damnation,Reconsoli...

TOM ZIMMERMAN AND J. ERIC LYNXWILER PRESENT THEIR BOOK SPECTACULAR ILLUMINATION

05 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Spectacular Illumination: Neon Los Angeles 1925-1965 (Angel City Press) Spectacular Illumination: Neon Los Angeles, 1925-1965 is a unique, and indee...

KEITH MORRIS PRESENTS HIS BOOK MY DAMAGE WITH JIM RULAND

05 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

My Damage: The Story of a Punk Rock Survivor (Da Capo Press) Keith Morris is a true punk icon. No one else embodies the sound of Southern Californi...

GRAHAM MOORE DISCUSSES HIS NEW NOVEL THE LAST DAYS OF NIGHT, WITH SAM WASSON

05 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The Last Days of Night (Random House) From Graham Moore, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and New York Times bestselling auth...

JESSICA WINTER DISCUSSES HER NEW BOOK BREAK IN CASE OF EMERGENCY, WITH DOREE SHAFRIR

05 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Break in Case of Emergency (Knopf) Jessica Winter's ferociously intelligent debut novel is a wry satire of celebrity do-goodism as well as an explo...

MEGAN ABBOTT LAUNCHES HER NEW NOVEL YOU WILL KNOW ME

22 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

You Will Know Me (Little Brown and Company) The audacious new novel about family and ambition from "one of the best living mystery writers" ("Grantl...

SELFISH LAUNCHES ISSUE FOUR: HOT AND BOTHERED

22 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Selfish Issue Four: Hot and Bothered Selfish, the feminist memoir magazine, is back with its fourth and boldest issue yet. Join us for a night of win...

WRITEGIRL STUDENTS READ THEIR ORIGINAL WORK

22 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Join WriteGirl at 5pm to hear new creative voices by teen girls! Get inspired as WriteGirl teens speak their minds and read their original work....

JESSE REKLAW DISCUSSES HIS NEW BOOK LOVF

22 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

LOVF (Fantagraphics) LOVF is the sketchbook companion of a man literally losing his mind. Homeless and broke after giving all his stuff to punk roc...

TOM LUTZ DISCUSSES HIS NEW BOOK DRINKING MARE'S MILK ON THE ROOF OF THE WORLD

15 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Drinking Mare's Milk on the Roof of the World: Wandering the Globe from Azerbaijan to Zanzibar (OR Books) Tom Lutz is addicted to journeying. Som...

MEHNAZ SAHIBZADA READS FROM HER NEW CHAPBOOK SUMMER FORGETS TO WEAR A PETTICOAT

15 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Summer Forgets to Wear a Petticoat (Finishing Line Press) Summer Forgets to Wear a Petticoat explores the author's passions & obsessions. These inc...

DANIEL LISI DISCUSSES HIS NEW BOOK WORLD OF WARCRAFT, WITH JARETT KOBEK, GABE DURHAM, AND BROCK WILBUR

15 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

World of Warcraft (Boss Fight Books) At more than 100 million user accounts created and over $10 billion made, it is not only the most-subscribed MM...

NATASHIA DEON READS FROM HER DEBUT NOVEL GRACE WITH DAVID ULIN

12 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Grace (Counterpoint Press) For a runaway slave in the 1840s south, life on the run can be just as dangerous as life under a sadistic Massa. That’...

WENONAH HAUTER DISCUSSES FRACKOPOLY WITH ED BEGLEY

12 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Frackolopy: the Battle for the Future of Energy and the Enviornment (New Press) Over the past decade, a new and controversial energy extraction meth...

EMMA RATHBONE READS FROM HER NEW NOVEL LOSING IT

11 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Losing It (Riverhead Books) Losing It is the story of Julia Greenfield, a former collegiate swimming star who finds herself at age 26, stuck in a d...

ZYZZYVA ISSUE NO. 106 LAUNCH EVENT

08 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Please welcome ZYZZYVA's Southern California All-Stars! Though a San Francisco publication, ZYZZYVA has championed writers, poets, and artists f...

MARGARET WAPPLER READS FROM HER DEBUT NOVEL NEON GREEN WITH GUY BRANUM

08 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Neon Green (Unnamed Press) It's the summer of 1994 in suburban Chicago: Forrest Gump is in theaters, teens are reeling from the death of Kurt Cobai...

CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN READS FROM HER NEW BOOK SARONG PARTY GIRLS WITH HILLARY JORDAN

08 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

A brilliant and utterly engaging novel--Emma set in modern Asia--about a young woman's rise in the glitzy, moneyed city of Singapore, where old trad...

ZACKARY DRUCKER AND RHYS ERNST DISCUSS THEIR BOOK RELATIONSHIP WITH JACK HALBERSTAM

01 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Relationship (Prestel Publishing) Male becomes female. Female becomes male. Life becomes art. Private becomes public. A major feature of the 2014 Wh...

JENNIFER GRAYSON DISCUSSES HER NEW BOOK UNLATCHED

22 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Unlatched: The Evolution of Breastfeeding and the Making of a Controversy (Harper) In Unlatched, Grayson transcends today’s “mommy wars” to o...

DORTHE NORS DISCUSSES HER NEW BOOK SO MUCH FOR THAT WINTER, WITH JARETT KOBEK

14 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

So Much For That Winter (Graywolf Press/A Public Space) Dorthe Nors follows up her acclaimed story collection Karate Chop with a pair of novellas ...

ADITI KHORANA READS FROM HER NOVEL MIRROR IN THE SKY

14 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Mirror in the Sky (Razorbill) For Tara Krishnan, navigating Brierly, the academically rigorous prep school she attends on scholarship, feels overwh...

CHUCK KLOSTERMAN READS FROM HIS NEW BOOK BUT WHAT IF WE'RE WRONG?

12 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

But What If We're Wrong? (Blue Rider Press) We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certa...

RAMONA AUSUBEL READS FROM HER NEW NOVEL SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF EASE AND PLENTY

12 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty (Riverhead Books) Ramona Ausubel burst onto the literary scene in 2012 with her debut novelNo One is Here Exce...

EMMA CLINE READS FROM HER DEBUT NOVEL THE GIRLS

12 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The Girls (Random House) Selected as one of 2016’s Must Read Books by Entertainment Weekly, Flavorwire & The Millions, Skylight Books is proud to ...

BEN EHRENREICH READS FROM HIS NEWEST BOOK THE WAY TO THE SPRING: LIFE AND DEATH IN PALESTINE

12 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine (Penguin Press) From an award-winning journalist, a brave and necessary immersion into the everyd...

PEN CENTER USA PRESENTS: THE EMERGING VOICES MEET AND GREET

12 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The Emerging Voices Meet and Greet PEN Center USA will present an informational evening with current and former Emerging Voices fellows and mentors f...

JENSEN KARP DISCUSSES HIS NEW MEMOIR KANYE WEST OWES ME $300, WITH GREG BEHRENDT

28 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Kanye West Owes Me $300: And Other True Stories from A White Rapper Who Almost Made it Big (Crown) After Vanilla Ice, but before Eminem, there was "...

LISA HANAWALT DISCUSSES HER BOOK HOT DOG TASTE TEST

28 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Hot Dog Taste Test (Drawn + Quarterly) Hot Dog Taste Test serves up Lisa Hanawalt's devastatingly funny comics, saliva­-stimulating art, and deli...

TED GELTNER, MICHAEL CONNELLY AND STEVE ONEY DISCUSS BLOOD, BONE AND MARROW: A BIOGRAPHY OF HARRY CREWS

27 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Blood, Bone and Marrow: A Biography of Harry Crews (University of Georgia Press) On what would have been Harry Crews' 81st birthday, we celebrate th...

MANU SAADIA DISCUSSES HIS NEW BOOK TREKONOMICS

27 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Trekonomics (Piper Text) Star Trek is set in an amazing utopian universe of faster-than-light travel, of “beam me up, Scotty,” and Vulcan salut...

WATCHLIST ANTHOLOGY READING FEATURING AIMEE BENDER, ALEXIS LANDAU, MILES KLEE, BRYAN HURT AND CORY DOCTOROW

27 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Watchlist: 32 Stories by Persons of Interest (Catapult) In Watchlist, some of today's most prominent and promising fiction writers from around the ...

PAUL VANGELISTI READS FROM HIS LATEST COLLECTION OF POETRY BORDER MUSIC

27 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Border Music (Talisman House) Border Music is Paul Vangelisti’s thirty-third book of poetry, bringing together work from the last ten years, in ...

MARTIN POUSSON LAUNCHES HIS NEW NOVEL BLACK SHEEP BOY

27 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Black Sheep Boy (Rare Bird Books) Meet a wild-hearted boy from the bayou land of Louisiana. Misfit, outcast, loner. Call him anything but a victim. ...

UC IRVINE MFA STUDENTS READ FROM THEIR WORK 2016

16 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The UC Irvine MFA Reading Series is a program that provides current graduate students in fiction and poetry the opportunity to showcase their work to ...

NOAH HAWLEY DISCUSSES HIS NEW NOVEL BEFORE THE FALL, TOGETHER WITH BOB ODENKIRK

16 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Before the Fall (Grand Central Publishing) From the Emmy, PEN, Peabody, Critics' Choice, and Golden Globe Award-winning creator of the TV show "Farg...

DEBBIE GRABER READS FROM HER COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES KEVIN KRAMER STARTS ON MONDAY WITH MATT FLANAGAN

06 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Kevin Kramer Starts on Monday (Unnamed Press) Debbie Graber’s debut short story collection, Kevin Kramer Starts on Monday is a trenchant and sea...

MARGARET GUROFF DISCUSSES HER BOOK THE MECHANICAL HORSE

06 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The Mechanical Horse: How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life (University of Texas Press) In this lively cultural history, the journalist Margaret Gu...

CHARLOTTE SHANE DISCUSSES HER MEMOIR PROSTITUTE LAUNDRY, IN CONVERSATION WITH ANN FRIEDMAN

06 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Prostitute Laundry  In the winter of 2014, writer and sex worker Charlotte Shane sent out her confessional letter to a small but devoted mailing l...

ROBERT S. LEVINSON reads from his novel THE STARDOM AFFAIR

16 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The Stardom Affair (Five Star Publishing) Newspaper columnist Neil Gulliver and his ex-wife, "Sex Queen of the Soaps" Stevie Marriner, are back. It...

ALEXANDRE VIDAL PORTO reads from his newest novel SERGIO Y.

16 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Sergio Y. (Europa Editions) A startling and inspirational work of transgender fiction by a leading figure in Brazil’s “New Urban” fiction mov...

BRENDAN JONES reads from his debut novel THE ALASKAN LAUNDRY

16 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The Alaskan Laundry (Mariner Books) A fresh debut novel about a lost, fierce young woman who finds her way to Alaska and finds herself through the h...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author VIET THANH NGUYEN discusses his new book NOTHING EVER DIES: VIETNAM AND THE MEMORY OF WAR

16 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (Harvard University Press) All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second...

MARINAOMI discusses her new graphic memoir TURNING JAPANESE, with YUMI SAKUGAWA

16 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Turning Japanese (2D Cloud) In 1995, 22-year-old Mari has just exited a long-term relationship, moving from Mill Valley to San Jose, California. So...

JOSHUA CLOVER discusses his book RIOT. STRIKE. RIOT

16 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings (Verso) Riots are coming, they are already here, more are on the way. They deserve an adequate theory. ...

NICELLE DAVIS presents THE WALLED WIFE with JACKIE BANG, ALEXIS RHONE FANCHER, ASHLEY INGUANTA, JENNIFER BRADPIECE and JUICEE COUTURE

16 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The Walled Wife (Red Hen Press) A woman is buried so a church will rise. Nicelle Davis’ The Walled Wife unearths from the long-standing text “...

OTIS COLLEGE GRADUATE WRITING STUDENTS read from their work

13 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Please join us for a reading with the graduate writing students of Otis College of Art and Design. The readers will include: N.J. Arps has a lifelon...

INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY!

13 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Join us today as we celebrate the 3rd Annual Independent Bookstore Day! After the popularity of the innaugural Californa Bookstore Day the event has ...

MANUEL GONZALES discusses his new book THE REGIONAL OFFICE IS UNDER ATTACK!, with JIM GAVIN

12 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The Regional Office is Under Attack! (Riverhead Books) In a world beset by amassing forces of darkness, one organization the Regional Office and its...

WILLIAM JONES reads from his new book TRUE HOMOSEXUAL EXPERIENCES: BOYD MCDONALD AND STRAIGHT TO HELL

12 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

True Homosexual Experiences: Boyd McDonald and Straight to Hell (We Heard You Like Books) A World War II veteran from the Great Plains, Boyd McDonal...

AMY SPALDING reads from her new young adult novel THE NEW GUY (AND OTHER SENIOR YEAR DISTRACTIONS)

25 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The New Guy and Other Senior Year Distractions (Poppy Books) Senior-class competitions and hunky heartthrobs meet in this hilarious high school sto...

AMY GOODMAN and DAVID GOODMAN discuss their new book DEMOCRACY NOW!: TWENTY YEARS COVERING THE MOVEMENTS CHANGING AMERICA

25 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America (Simon & Schuster) In 1996 Amy Goodman started a radio show called "Democracy N...

DIANA BLOCK reads from her new novel CLANDESTINE OCCUPATIONS

22 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Clandestine Occupations (PM Press) A radical activist, Luba Gold, makes the difficult decision to go underground to support the Puerto Rican indepen...

KEN CORBETT discusses his new book A MURDER OVER A GIRL, with MAGGIE NELSON

22 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

A Murder Over a Girl (Henry Holt & Company) On February 12, 2008, a beautiful morning in Oxnard, CA, 14-year-old Brandon McInerney and the rest of ...

ARIS JANIGIAN reads from his new novel WAITING FOR LIPCHITZ AT CHATEAU MARMONT

22 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Waiting for Lipchitz at Chateau Marmont (Rare Bird) Set in two iconic locales—Hollywood's legendary Chateau Marmont and luxurious Fresno's Foresti...

CHRISTOPHER SORRENTINO discusses his newest book THE FUGITIVES, with JONATHAN LETHEM

14 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The Fugitives (Simon & Schuster) From National Book Award finalist Christopher Sorrentino, a bracing, kaleidoscopic look at love and obsession, loy...

JARETT KOBEK reads from his new novel I HATE THE INTERNET with MATTHEW SPECKTOR

14 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

I Hate the Internet (We Heard You Like Books) What if you told the truth and the whole world heard you? What if you lived in a country swamped with ...

FIRST DRAFT LIVE! featuring VICTORIA AVEYARD, LINDSAY KLINGELE, ELISSA SUSSMAN and SARAH ENNI

01 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Join us as the popular podcast, First Draft, goes LIVE with some of LA's most fantastical KidLit authors. This February,Victoria Aveyard, Lindsey Kli...

DARRYL HOLTER and WILLIAM DEVERELL discuss their book Woody GUTHRIE LA: 1937-1941

23 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Guthrie LA: 1937-1941 (Angel City Press) “What happens when we push beyond Woody’s iconic image to try to understand how an unemployed hillbilly...

KAZ discusses his new book UNDERWORLD: FROM HOLLYWOOD TO HOBOKEN with BEN SCHWARTZ

23 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Underworld: From Hoboken to Hollywood (Fantagraphics Books) Join underground cartoonist Kaz, and writer Ben Schwartz, to discuss the first ever co...

SELFISH launches ISSUE THREE: GOOD GIRL

22 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Selfish, the feminist memoir magazine, is back with round three. Join us for a night of wine and the exploration of the contradictory notion of being...

JESSICA CHIARELLA reads from her debut novel AND AGAIN with KAROLINA WACLAWIAK

22 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

And Again (Touchstone) Jessica Chiarella’s inventive debut novel And Again marks the launch of a bold new literary voice. In the spirit of Neve...

JULIA CLAIBORNE JOHNSON reads from her novel BE FRANK WITH ME

16 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Be Frank with Me (William Morrow & Company) Be Frank with Me, with its eccentric characters in self-imposed isolation, their grand but sometimes mi...

PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH reads from his new novel BAD LUCK

16 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Bad Luck (Little Brown and Company) Clay doesn’t believe in dragons. Then again, there was a time when he didn’t believe in magic, either... ...

BRIAN EVENSON reads from his collection of stories A COLLAPSE OF HORSES, in conversation with MAGGIE NELSON

16 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

A Collapse of Horses (Coffee House Press) A stuffed bear’s heart beats with the rhythm of a dead baby, Reno keeps receding to the east no matter ...

ROB ROBERGE discusses his book LIAR with DAVID ULIN

16 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Liar: A Memoir (Crown Publishing) Indie darling and novelist Rob Roberge makes his major-house debut with Liar: A Memoir, an intense, darkly funny ...

BEN RATLIFF discusses his book EVERY SONG EVER with ALEX ROSS

12 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) ​Since 1996 Ben Ratliff has been writing about mu...

OBJECT LESSONS reading with EVAN KINDLEY, BRIAN THILL, ARIANA KELLY, and ALISON KINNEY

08 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Object Lessons is an essay and book series published by The Atlantic and Bloomsbury about the hidden lives of ordinary things, from sardines to sile...

MARC WEINGARTEN discusses his new book THIRSTY, with NINA REVOYR

08 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Thirsty: William Mulholland, California Water and the Real Chinatown (Rare Bird Books) Thirsty is an exploration of Los Angeles’ storied history ...

CHARLIE JANE ANDERS reads from her debut novel ALL THE BIRDS IN THE SKY

08 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

All the Birds in the Sky (Tor Books) From the editor-in-chief of io9.com, a stunning novel about the end of the world--and the beginning of our futu...

JAKE GERHARDT reads from his young adult novel ME & MIRANDA MULLALY

01 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Me & Miranda Mullaly (Viking) Most of us remember our first crush, but do we ever think about our classmates that may have been crushing on that ve...